The Missing Bishop
A small chapel, built during the 1490s, is annexed to the west end of the south quire aisle of St George’s Chapel. It is known as the Oliver King Chapel. But where is its founder, Bishop Oliver King? This simple ...
Tag: Henry VI
A host of relics
Windsor Castle is visited daily by thousands of tourists. The number of visitors to St George’s Chapel has grown dramatically in the centuries since its foundation, but the practice of travelling to visit St George’s has been a tradition for ...
The man behind the Black Book
Illumination is a key feature of the Black Book of the Garter which, commissioned by King Henry VIII in 1534, documents the Knights of the Order of the Garter from its origin in 1348 until 1551. Accounts of the household ...
Conservator’s eye view: illumination
As we have seen in my previous blogs most manuscripts were written before they were decorated. Scribes often doubled as page designers, planning the hierarchy of decoration in line with the articulation of the text. They left room for the ...
Richard III and St George’s Chapel
In 1484 the bodily remains of Henry VI were removed from Chertsey Abbey, where they had lain since his death in 1471, and were relocated to St George’s Chapel, Windsor Castle, apparently on the orders of Richard III. The motive ...
Henry VI’s Sword
In the early years of the reign of King Henry VIII, Nicholas West, Dean of Windsor [1509-1515], sent two letters to the Canons back in Windsor, concerning his visit to the King and the King’s Council [SGC II.J.7/1-2]. Henry VIII ...
New learning resource added
A new learning resource on The Wars of the Roses has been added to the existing ones on the burial of Henry VIII and medieval pilgrimage. As the burial place for the two “Roses”, Edward IV of York and Henry VI ...
Lilies and roses for a King
King Henry VI was born at Windsor on 6 December 1421 and succeeded to the throne at the age of nine months as King of England. Henry was crowned 6 November 1429 at Westminster Abbey a month before his eighth ...