Image: Kenilworth StNicholas SouthTransept SouthWindow

Description: South window of the south transept of the parish church of St Nicholas, Kenilworth, Warwickshire. Probably 19th century (?). Showing the arms of the historical owners of Kenilworth Castle. Top: A female armiger's lozenge shield, showing Dudley impaling Gules, a cross or (a wife/widow of a Dudley). Below: left: Gules, a cinquefoil argent (de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester (Latin:de Bellomonte), here shown with a dark field; right: Bear and Ragged Staff, heraldic badge of the Earls of Warwick; Columns (the shields appear in chronological order if read by column left to right, top to bottom): Left column: Top: Chequy or and azure, a chief ermine, possibly intended for "de Newburgh", the surname adopted by the Beaumont Earls of Warwick (usually shown with a chevron ermine, not a chief) Middle: de Montfort: Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (c.1205-1265) Gules, a lion rampant argent (Earl's coronet above arms) Bottom: Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster (1245-1296), second son of King Henry III, who granted him Kenilworth Castle in 1266, following the end of the long siege (13 December 1266) by the royal forces against Simon de Montfort the Younger (son of Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester (c.1205-1265), killed at the Battle of Evesham). Middle Column: Top: John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (1340-1399), a younger son of King Edward III, who married the heiress Blanche of Lancaster, by which marriage he inherited Kenilworth. Middle: Dudley: Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (1532-1588) Bottom: Henry, Prince of Wales (1594-1612), eldest son and heir apparent of King James I Right column: Top: Cary: Robert Carey, Earl of Monmouth, in 1626 granted custody of Kenilworth Castle by King Charles I, who had inherited it from his brother Henry, Prince of Wales in 1612. Middle: Hyde: In 1665 King Charles II granted Kenilworth to Laurence Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon, in whose family’s hands it remained until 1937 when George Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon sold it to the car manufacturer Sir John Siddeley who put it into the hands of the Ministry of Works with a substantial sum of money to fund repairs. Bottom: Villiers, Earl of Clarendon: In 1665 King Charles II granted Kenilworth to Laurence Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon, in whose family’s hands it remained until 1937 when George Villiers, 6th Earl of Clarendon sold it to the car manufacturer Sir John Siddeley who put it into the hands of the Ministry of Works with a substantial sum of money to fund repairs.
Title: Kenilworth StNicholas SouthTransept SouthWindow
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