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| Coats of arms in the windows of Selby Abbey, recorded in 1756. |
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| The abbey of Selby - the first abbey built in Britain after the Norman conquest and the place where King Henry I ['Beauclerc'] was born. |
The windows were probably paid for by donations from local medieval land owners as well a s travellers who may have taken shelter in the then monastery.
Window east end south side aisle:
| Family Name | Description in Mon. Ebor. | Modern Blazon | Comments |
| Edmund earl of Lancaster or his son, Thomas earl of Lancaster | England with a label of 3 points | Gules 3 lions passant guardant or with a label of 3 points each charged with 3 fleur de lis |
Window east end of the north aisle
| Family Name | Description in Mon. Ebor. | ||
| [Possibly Wake] | Or, two bends, gules, in chief 3 besant, or torteaux of the second. |
Windows on the south side of the church in the upper row going from east to west
| Family Name | Window | Description in Mon. Ebor. | Comments |
| [Firstly: possibly Bissett]
[Secondly: possibly Darcy] |
First window | Firstly: Azure, 6 besants or; 3,2,1.
Secondly: Gules 3 cinque foils, argent |
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| Firstly: Metham
Secondly: Gerard Thirdly: Alfreton [Fourthly: Foliot] |
Second window | Firstly: Quarterly, azure and argent, in the first
quarter, a fleur de lys, or.
Secondly: Argent, a saltier, gules. Thirdly: Azure 2 chevrons or. Fourthly: Gules, a bend argent. |
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| Firstly: Ross (Ros/ Roos)
[Secondly: possibly Hastings variant] [Thirdly: possibly Deyvile/ Deiville &c. of Kilburn] |
Third window | Firstly: Gules 3 water budgets, or.
Secondly: Azure a maunch ermine. Thirdly: Gules a fess varee [vair], between 3 fleur de lis or and azure. |
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| [Firstly: possibly Warenne variant]
[Secondly: possibly Warenne variant] |
Fourth window | Firstly: Argent a chief chequee [chequy], Or and azure.
Secondly: Argent a bend gules in a bordure chequee Or and azure. |
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| [Firstly: Picot]
[Secondly: possibly Martin] Thirdly: Latham [Fourthly: possibly Paynel, Paynell, Pagnel &c.] |
Fifth window | Firstly: Azure two bars or in chief 3 besants.
Secondly: Argent 2 bars gules in chief 3 mullets gules, pierced argent Thirdly: Or on a chief indented azure, 3 plates argent. Fourthly: Argent 2 bars between an orle of 6 martlets gules. |
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| Sir Hugh de Culy (Cuilly) reign of Edward II. | Sixth window | Argent a chevron between 3 mullets pierced, sable. |
In the low windows on the south side from east to west
| Family name | |||
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Secondly: Tiptoft (Tibetot)
Thirdly: Bruce (Brus)
Fourthly: Plompton
Fifthly: Faucenberge (Fauconberg &c.) Sixthly: Hastings |
First window: | Firstly: England [gules 3 lions passant guardant Or] with a with a label of 3 files,
argent charged with three besants each.
Secondly: Argent a saltier engrailed gules. Thirdly: Argent a lion rampant azure. Fourthly: 5 fusils in fess charged with each an escalop [escallop] gules. Fifthly: A lion rampant debruised with a bar componee, Or and gules. Sixthly: Gules, a maunch and bordure Or, alias Or, a maunch gules. |
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| [Firstly: Edmund earl of Lancaster or his son, Thomas earl of
Lancaster]
Secondly: Clifford [Thirdly: De Grey] |
Second window | Firstly: England [gules 3 lions passant guardant Or] with a label or file
of 3 points
azure.
Secondly: Cheque [Chequy] Or and azure a fess gules. Thirdly: Barre [barry] of 6 azure and argent. |
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| Firstly: Edmund of Woodstock, earl of Kent brother to
King Edward I. OR else Thomas of Woodstock, 6th son of Edward III, duke
of Gloucester. [Also by Earl Edmund's descendant, Joan of Kent, Thomas de Holland,
earl of Kent]
[Secondly: possibly Mandeville] Thirdly: Meinil (Meynill &c.) Fourthly: Birkin of Birkin [Fifthly: Mautravers, Maltravers] [Sixthly: possibly Plompton] |
Third window | Firstly: England [gules 3 lions passant guardant Or] within a bordure
argent.
Secondly: Azure a frettee [fretty] of 8 pieces, or; a chief of the 2nd. Thirdly: Vert-. azure three bars gemels and a chief or. Fourthly: Argent a fess azure. A file or label of 3 points gules. Fifthly: Sable a frett of 6 pieces or. Sixthly: Argent 5 fusils [similar to lozenges] on a bend azure. |
On the north side of the choir, in the upper windows, from west to east:
| Family name | |||
| [Firstly: Foliot]
Secondly: Barry and Palmer [OR Babthorpe!] |
First window Quarterly | Firstly: barry of 6 argent and gules.
Secondly: Gules a chevron or, between 3 crescents argent |
Babthorpe of Babthorpe nr. Howden, also given about 1312 as Sable a chevron Or, between 3 crescents ermine. |
| Firstly: Thornhill
Thirdly?: Morley |
First window | Firstly: 2 gules, 2 bars gemells and in chief argent.
Thirdly?: Argent on a bend azure three mullets of 6 points pierced. |
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[Secondly: possibly Wake] [Thirdly: Alan la Zouche, Souche &c.] |
Second window | Firstly: 2 bars gemells nebulee [nebuly] argent
Secondly: Or on a chief indented gules 3 plates argent Thirdly: Gules 6 besants or, 3, 2, 1. |
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| [Firstly: possibly Meynill]
[Secondly: possibly Bardolf, Bardolph] Thirdly: Sheffield |
Third window | Firstly: 2 bars gemells argent over all a bend of the 2nd.
Secondly: Or, 3 chaplets or cinquefoils, gules 2 and 1. Thirdly: Agent a chevron between 3 garbs, gules. |
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| [Firstly: possibly De Vere or Brotherton earl of
Norfolk]
Secondly: Ingham [of Norfolk] Thirdly: Lovel |
Fourth window | Firstly: Argent, a plain cross gules in a bordure
sable.
Secondly: Partee per pale or and vert. a cross percerele gules. Thirdly: Argent a chevron between 3 wolves heads, gules. Fourthly: Azure. |
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| [Secondly: Sir Peter de Mauley of Mulgrave and
Doncaster.]
[Thirdly: Sir Thomas de Multon] [Fourthly: Possibly Useflete of Norfolk and Suffolk] |
Fifth window | Firstly: Gules a chevron between 3 plates.
Secondly: Or a bend sable. Thirdly: Argent 3 bars gules. Fourthly: Argent on a fess azure. 3 fleur de lis Or. |
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| Sixth window | Firstly: Lozenges argent and gules.
Secondly: On a canton gules in bend or. |
On the north side , lower windows from west to east:
| Family name | First window | ||
| Stapylton (Stapleton) | Second window | Argent, a lion rampant sable. | |
| [De Percy] | Third window | Or a lion rampant azure, debruised, with a bar componee, argent and gules. | |
| Lord Darcy | Fourth window | Azure, 6 semi de crosslets, 3 cinquefoils argent. | |
| [Possibly De Grey] | Fifth window | Baree [Barry] of argent and azure 3 chaplets or ogresses, gules 2 and 1, charged with as many quarterfoils argent. | |
| Lucy | Sixth window | Firstly: Gules 3 lucys hariant, argent. |
In the windows in the west end of the steeple. In the lower row, on the east side of the north door, or entrance into the church:
| Family name | |||
| Paganel [Paynell, Paynel, &c.] | Firstly: Azure a cross patonce, or. |
In the north east window, next to the steeple:
| Family name | |||
| [Firstly: Sir John Paynell, Paynel, &c. living in
the reign of Edward II.]
Secondly: Perci [Percy] |
Firstly: Gules, a cinquefoil, argent.
Secondly: Or a lyon rampant azure |
In the south side lower window:
| Family name | |||
| Stapylton [Stapleton] | Lately argent a lion rampant, sable but is now (1756) destroyed. |
In the last south window:
| Family name | |||
| Clifford | Chequee [chequy] or and azure, a fess gules. |
Next to the steeple on the east side were the following, viz:
| Family name | |||
| Firstly: Normanville
Secondly: Thwenge (Thweng, Tweng &c.) of Kilton. [Thirdly: Henry French OR Franke, living in the reign of King Edward IV] |
Firstly: Argent on a fess between two bars gemels,
gules 3 fleur de lis, argent.
Secondly: Argent a fess gules, between 3 popinjays vert. Thirdly: Vert a saltier [saltire] engrailed or. |
Transcribed from:- Burton, John. Monasticon Eboracense. (1758), pp.
408-409 with additions in square parentheses.
Also see West Yorkshire coats of arms
© Tim Midgley 21st March 2017. Links revised July 2023.
< A 'greenman' from the roof of Selby Abbey.