MAKE A MEME View Large Image ...Leger KG GarterStallPlate.jpg en Garter stall plate of Sir Anthony St Leger d 1559 Knight of the Garter Lord Deputy of Ireland St George's Chapel Windsor Castle Inscribed above with motto SOMIENE DE MOY DIEN apparently garbled French ...
View Original:AnthonyStLeger_KG_GarterStallPlate.jpg (220x300)
Download: Original    Medium    Small Thumb
Courtesy of:commons.wikimedia.org More Like This
Keywords: AnthonyStLeger KG GarterStallPlate.jpg en Garter stall plate of Sir Anthony St Leger d 1559 Knight of the Garter Lord Deputy of Ireland St George's Chapel Windsor Castle Inscribed above with motto SOMIENE DE MOY DIEN apparently garbled French possibly for souviens de mon dieu I remember my God At base in semi-illiterate French i e with basic errors in gender Du noble et vailant chevalier mesier Antonye Sentleger Deputie pour la roy en son royalme d'Ierlond et une de la estroiet chamber du roy NRE n ot re souverain SHR frere et compaignon de la tres noble Ordre de la Jarretiere Of the noble and valiant knight Sir Anthony St Leger deputy for the king in his kingdom of Ireland and one of the privy chamber of the king our sovereign SHR brother and companion of the most noble Order of the Garter The heraldry shows an escutcheon circumscribed by the Garter displaying the arms quarterly 1 4 Azure fretty argent St Leger ; 2 3 Argent three barnacles gules tied sable Donet of Sileham Rainham Kent Sir Anthony's grandfather Sir John St Leger of Ulcombe Kent married Margery Donet or Donnet daughter and heiress of James Donet d 1409 of Sileham Crest A griffin statant Crest of St Leger family Viscount Doneraile A griffin passant or Debrett's Peerage 1968 p 365 ; supporters Two griffins wings elevated supporters of St Leger family Viscount Doneraile Two griffins or wings elevated azure fretty argent Debrett's Peerage 1968 p 365 http //www royalcollection org uk/microsites/knightsofthegarter/MicroObject asp row 11 themeid 459 item 12 Unknown 16th century brass-worker circa 1544 date of nomination as KG PD-old-100 Stall plates of Knights of the Garter St Leger arms Donet arms
Terms of Use   Search of the Day