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Exeter Cathedral's Great East Window ...

Table of arms

#	Image	Escutcheon	Details
1			Edmund Stafford (1344-1419), Bishop of Exeter 1395-1419 Blazon: Or, a chevron gules, a bordure azure semee of mitres of the field.
2			Richard Blund or Blundy (d.1257), Bishop of Exeter 1245-1257. Blazon: Lozengy or and sable.
3			Robert Chichester (d.1160/61), Bishop of Exeter 1155-1160/61. Blazon: Chequey or and gules, a chief vair.
4			Osbern FitzOsbern (d.1103), Bishop of Exeter 1072-1103. Blazon: Filler text
5 & 18			Edward the Confessor (1003/05-1066), King of the English 1042-1066. Blazon: Azure, a cross patonce between five martlets Or. Edward lived before the existence of heraldry. Arms were attributed to him probably in the fourteenth century. His arms appear twice in the Great East Window (no.5 pictured). Alternative versions include a cross flory instead of patonce and doves instead of martlets.
6			William Courtenay (1342-1396), Archbishop of Canterbury 1381-1396. Blazon: The Archdiocese of Canterbury impaling Or, three torteaux gules, a label of three points azure each charged with three plates.
7			James Berkeley (d.1327), Bishop of Exeter 1327. Blazon: Gules, a chevron between ten crosses pattée argent. Some sources add an annulet for difference.
8			Royal Arms of England (1406-1603) Blazon: Quarterly, 1st and 4th Azure, three fleurs-de-lys or (France modern), 2nd and 3rd, Gules, three lions passant guardant in pale or (England). This shield is fifteenth century and could be for any king from Henry IV to Henry VII.
9			Courtenay Blazon: Or, three torteaux gules, a label of three points azure.
10			Athelstan (c.894-939), King of the Anglo-Saxons 924-927, King of the English 927-939. Blazon: Per saltire gules and azure, on an orb or a cross bottony fitchy crowned or. Athelstan was king when the first church was built on the cathedral site. He pre-dated the existence of heraldry and so had arms attributed to him centuries later. Two other variations of his attributed arms exist in the cathedral, in the Great West Window and in the ??Window??.
11			Leofric (bef.1016-1072), Bishop of Exeter 1050-1072. Blazon: Or, on a cross patonce sable a mitre of the field. Leofric became first Bishop of Exeter when the see was moved from Crediton in 1050. He pre-dated the existence of heraldry, so arms are later attributions.
12			William Warelwast (d.1137), Bishop of Exeter 1107-1137, & Robert Warelwast (d.1155), Bishop of Exeter 1138-1155. Blazon: Azure, a saltire argent. William and Robert were uncle and nephew. The saltire is alternatively blazoned or (e.g. in the cathedral's ??Window??).
13			William Brewer (d.1244), Bishop of Exeter 1224-1244. Blazon: Gules, two bends wavy or within a bordure azure charged with four mitres and four keys of the second.
14			Walter Stapledon (bef.1266-1326), Bishop of Exeter 1307-1326. Blazon: Argent, two bends wavy within a bordure sable. Other versions have bends nebuly, and have crossed keys on the bordure. These arms, with bends nebuly and keys, are used as the arms of Exeter College, Oxford.
15			George Neville (c.1432-1476), Bishop of Exeter 1456-1465. Blazon: Gules, a saltire argent.
16			Thomas of Lancaster, Duke of Clarence (1387-1421) Blazon: Quarterly France modern and England, a label of three points ermine. Each point of the label should also have a canton gules, but these have been omitted.
17			George Lavington (1684-1762), Bishop of Exeter 1746-1762. Blazon: Argent, a saltire gules; on a chief of the second three boars' heads couped or.
19			Thomas Bytton Blazon: Filler text
20			John Grandisson, Bishop of Exeter Blazon: Filler text
21			Montagu Neville Blazon: Filler text
22			Edmund Lacy, Bishop of Exeter Blazon: Filler text
23			Tilly (maybe) Blazon: Filler text
24			William Brewer, Bishop of Exeter Blazon: Gules, two bendlets sinister or. This escutcheon has been fitted into the window backwards. The bendlets should not be sinister
25			Robert Botyll, Bishop of Exeter Blazon: Filler text
26			Frederick Keppel, Bishop of Exeter Blazon: Filler text
27			Courtenay - Bohun Blazon: Filler text
28			Diocese of Exeter (old arms) Blazon: Gules, en saltire two keys or and between them a sword argent hilted and pommelled of the second. This was the arms of the Diocese of Exeter until the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century. The arms on the right-hand side of the window are shown reversed.
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29			Bohun Blazon: Filler text
30			John Grandisson, Bishop of Exeter Blazon: Filler text
31			Thomas Brantyngham, Bishop of Exeter Blazon: Filler text
32			Prince of Wales Blazon: Filler text
33			Humphrey of Lancaster, Duke of Gloucester (1390-1447). Blazon: Quarterly 1. France modern, 2 & 3. England, 4. France ancient, within a bordure engrailed argent. Humphrey's arms normally had a plain bordure. The engrailed appearance here may be a result of later restoration work. Another oddity is the different versions of the French arms in the 1st and 4th quarters.