Image: ThomasDeCantilupe BishopOfHereford Died1282 13thC StainedGlass SnitterfieldChurch Warwickshire Drawn1656 ByWilliamDugdale

Description: 1656 drawing by William Dugdale of ancient (13th. century?) stained glass windows then existing in the Church of St James the Great, Snitterfield, Warwickshire, showing a standing figure of Saint Thomas de Cantilupe (1220-1282), Bishop of Hereford; On his robe he displays the arms of Cantilupe modern: Gules, three leopard's faces jessant-de-lys or, which were later adopted as the arms of the See of Hereford. Also drawn by Dugdale (cropped out of this image, see File:ThomasDeCantilupe Died1282 BishopOfHereford StainedGlass SnitterfieldChurch Warks ByDugdale 1656.png are arms of Cantilupe of Snitterton and their feudal overlord de Clinton (in 1251 Thomas de Clinton was the overlord here of John I de Cantilupe). The manor was held by the bishop's uncle John I de Cantilupe (fl.1251) (who married Margerie Cumin, heiress of Snitterfield) and then by his son John II de Cantilupe (d.circa 1323), whose own son John III de Cantilupe predeceased him in about 1318. John II de Cantilupe (d.circa 1323) left a daughter and sole heiress Eleanor de Cantilupe, who by then was the wife of Thomas West, thus it passed to her descendants the West family, surviving today as Earl De La Warr, who quarter these arms of Cantilupe of Snitterfield. (Descent of the manor of Snitterfield related by Dugdale, pp.504-5).
Title: ThomasDeCantilupe BishopOfHereford Died1282 13thC StainedGlass SnitterfieldChurch Warwickshire Drawn1656 ByWilliamDugdale
Credit: Dugdale, William (1605-1686), Antiquities of Warwickshire, 1656, p.505[1]
Author: Dugdale, William (1605-1686)
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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