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Illumination from the Books of the Skinners Company. A. D. 1422

The illuminated representation of Queen Margaret of Anjou, wife of King Henry VI, here reproduced, is entered in the roll of the fraternity of Our Lady under date XV year of King Edward IV (A.D. 1475)...
Deutsch: ... Vielgeschichtliche Persönlichkeiten waren in alter Zeit Mitglieder der Fraternität. Im Besitz der Zunft befindet sich ein altes, illuminiertes Buch, das eine Liste mit der folgenden Überschrift enthält: „Dies sind die Namen der Gründer und Brüder und Schwestern der Fraternität vom Leib des Herrn, gegründet von der ehrwürdigen Gemeinschaft der Kürschner der Stadt London“ und die ersten Namen der Liste lauten:
  • König Eduard III.
  • Dame Philip, seine Königin
  • König Richard II.
  • Dame Anne, seine Königin
  • Prinz Eduard, Vater des Königs Richard (der Schwarze Prinz)
  • König Heinrich IV.
  • Dame Johan, seine Königin
  • König Heinrich V.
  • Dame Kateryn, seine Königin
  • König Heinrich VI.
  • König Eduard IV.
  • Dame Elizabeth, seine Königin
  • Lionel, Herzog von Clarence
  • Heinrich, Herzog von Lancaster
  • Thomas, Herzog von Clarence
  • Johann, Herzog von Bedford
  • Humfrey, Herzog von Gloucester
  • Richard, Herzog von York
  • Johann, Herzog von Exeter
  • Georg, Herzog von Clarence
  • Richard, Herzog von Gloucester (später Richard III.)
  • ...
(aus Alexander Tuma: Pelz-Lexikon, XIX. Band der Pelz- und Rauchwarenkunde, Stichwort Londoner Kürschner, Verlag Alexander Tuma, Wien 1950)
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worshipful_Company_of_Skinners
Date 1422/1902/2008
Source James Foster Wadmore, A.R.I.B.A., Senior Past Master of the Company: Some Account of the Worshipful Company of Skinners of London, being the guild of fraternity of Corpus Christi. Blades, East & Blades, Publishers, London 1902, between pages 40/41
Author unknown/-/--Kuerschner 05:40, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

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Margaret of Anjou as a widow from a 15th century manuscript

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