Gilbert de Clare, Earl of Gloucester of the name, was one of the principal barons who took up arms against King John. The royal line of the Plantagenets.
Painted glass. Gilbert de Clare, 5th Earl of Gloucester
Category: Plantagenet
Musicians of the time of Edward III. England 14th century.
The plate which we give represents a group of simple musicians of the time of Edward III, and the singularity of their costume proves that a taste for the grotesque in dress had already made sensible progress at this period.
EDWARD III, King of England and Wales. Anjou Plantagenet dynasty.
Edward III. from the Anjou Plantagenet dynasty, is considered one of the most important English rulers of the Medieval times.
Courtiers of the time of Richard II.
Anjou-Plantagenêt ruling dynasty of medieval England
Geoffrey Chaucer. English writer and poet.
DAN Chaucer, as he is termed by some of our older writers, is the popular representative of the earlier period of English poetry; indeed he may be considered The Poet, par excellence, of the English Middle Ages.
Ladies fashion of the 12th century. Virgin Mary. Anglo-Norman servants.
These figures present interesting examples of the female costume among our ancestors in the first half of the twelfth century. Illuminations of the Cottonian Manuscript Nero C. IV.
Coronation spoon of English monarchs. 12th century.
Coronation spoon of English monarchs.
Ecclesiastics of the 12th century. Bishop, monks.
Figures of prelates from a early Anglo-Norman version of the Psalter, in MS. Cotton, Nero C. IV., in the British Museum.
The Black Prince. Edward of Woodstock, Prince of Wales.
The portrait was probably made about the time of the battle of Poitiers
Effigy of William Longespée, 1st Earl of Salisbury. England 13th century.
The son of King Henry II. by his celebrated mistress, Fair Rosamond. Much of romantic interest is attached to the name of Longuespee.