Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Ancestral Portraits and Effigies

Tomb effigy of William de Braose, Baron Abergavenny (1204 - 1230)

Stained glass church window depicting Llywelyn Fawr ap Iworwerth,
King of Gwynedd and Wales

Romantic portrait of Eleanor of Aquitaine

Portrait of King Henry II

Portrait of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster

Illustration at front of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales believed to be
Kathryne Swynden and daughter (right) Joan of Beaufort


Tomb effigy of Robert Ragnvaldsson, Duke of Normandy
(aka Rollo the Viking)

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