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engraved on an enamel plate which once adorned his tomb in the
Cathedral of Le Mans, and which is now in the Museum of that city.
In an account written by
John, a monk of Marmoustier
in Touraine, about
the year 1130, of the
knighthood of Geoffry
Martel, subsequent to his
marriage with Maude,
daughter of Henry I., it
is stated that he was
invested with a hauberk,
chausses and gilt spurs,
and a shield charged with
little lions of gold was
hung upon
They
by Longespee,
his neck.*
were also carried
Earl of
Salisbury, the illegitimate
son of Henry II. by Fair
Rosamond, and are emblazoned
upon the shield
of the recumbent effigy
of him on his tomb in
Salisbury Cathedral.
His
brother, Geoffrey Plantagenet
(the only dutiful
son, although "base born,"
of the unhappy Henry),
was Archbishop of York
from 1
191 to 1207, t\e.,
before any part
of the
now existing Minster was
built.
They are not likely
to be his arms; but, as
they are always found closely associated with the royal arms, it is
possible that they may have been reckoned, at least amongst
Plantagenets, as part of their family quarterings
ENSETVO PRINCEPSPReDONVM TVRBKEVGJTTVR
the earlier
or as their initial coat.
Walford, in his introduction to the Percy Reliquts, gives the following
account of the acquisition by the King of the property of the Earl of
Salisbury.
" In the reign of King Richard I. the young heiress of D'Evreux,
*
Cussans.