Beatrice de Roos (d. 1415) and the Making of Art

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Fig. 1. York Minster, the St William window (nVII), rows 1–6. Members of the Roos family are depicted in row 1

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Fig. 2. The seal impression of Beatrice de Roos, 1404

© British Library Board, Add. Ch. 22,391

Fig. 3. The seal of Eufemie, daughter of Ralph Lord Neville, widow of (1) Reynold Lucy, (2) Robert Lord Clifford, (3) Sir Walter Heslarton

Drawn by Janet Parkin, based on Hunter Blair, ‘Armorials on English Seals’, pl. XVI, y

Fig. 4. The tomb of Richard de Burley in St Paul’s Cathedral, London, from William Dugdale’s Book of Monuments. Watercolour by William Sedgwick, June 1641

© British Library Board, Add. MS 71474, fol. 181v

Fig. 5. The tomb of Sir Richard Burley in St Paul’s Cathedral, London

From William Dugdale’s History of St Pauls [sic] Cathedral in London (London 1658), drawn by Wenceslas Hollar

Fig. 6. The location of Richard de Burley’s monument (no. 35) opposite that of John of Gaunt (no. 36). Burley’s tomb is incorrectly identified as that of Simon de Burley

From Dugdale, The History of St Paul’s, plan following p. 160

Fig. 7. Detail of the effigy of St Richard Burley, drawn by Thomas Dineley, c. 1680

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Top. Gen. d.19, fol. 300v

Fig. 8. York Minster north-west clerestory, NX. The arms of Roos impaling Stafford are represented in panel 1e

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Fig. 9. The location in York Minster of the arms of Roos in stone, glass and paint

Drawn by Janet Parkin

Fig. 10. York Minster, fourth bay of the south arcade of the Lady Chapel. The arms of Roos carved in stone

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Fig. 11. York Minster, St William window (nVII), panel 1e, Beatrice de Roos

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Fig. 12. Henry Johnston’s record of the donor figures c. 1670. Beatrice is shown on the extreme left of the page, labelled as occupying the ‘5th station’ (bottom left)

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Top. Yorks. C14, fol. 28r

Fig. 13. York Minster, St William window (nVII), panel 1d, William Roos and his wife Margaret

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Fig. 15. The Roos Family Tree

Drawn by Janet Parkin, after French, ‘The glazing of the St William Window’

Fig. 16. York Minster, St William window (nVII), panel 24d. An aristocratic lady is knocked over by a mounted man

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Fig. 17. York Minster, the St William window (nVII), panel 24e. The lady offers thanks at the shrine of St William in York Minster

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