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Description Gaveston Cornwall charter.jpg |
English:
The
initial
from the charter granting the
earldom of Cornwall
to
Piers Gaveston
on 6 August 1307. The top
coat of arms
is that of the king of England,
Edward II
, while the lower one is Gaveston's arms
impaled
with those of the
de Clare
family. At the top of the initial is a
Cornish Chough
. The impalement is not done consistently; while the de Clare arms are impaled, the six Gaveston eagles have been reduced to three. This resembles a
dimidiation
rather than an impalement. Also of note is the fact that the Gaveston and de Clare arms are impaled, even though the marriage between Gaveston and
Margaret de Clare
did not take place until 1 November. This makes it likely that the two were already engaged.
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Date | |
Source | Scanned from Chaplais, P. (1994) Piers Gaveston: Edward II's Adoptive Brother , Oxford : Clarendon Press, pp. btw. 18 and 19, see also 27–34 ISBN : 0-19-820449-3 . Original at The National Archives , E 41/460. |
Author | Unknown author Unknown author |
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