Image: GarterPlateHenryBourchier2ndEarlOfEssex
Description: Garter stall-plate of Henry Bourchier, 2nd Earl of Essex, 3rd Count of Eu (1468-1540), nominated as a Knight of the Garter in 1499. St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle. Inscribed above: "Le Conte Henri de Esex et de Ew". Arms: 1st & 4th: Bourchier; 2nd: Louvain, feudal barons of Little Easton, Essex (for the mother of the 1st Count of Eu, Eleanor de Louvain (d.1397)): Gules billety or a fess argent; 3rd: Argent, a fesse and a canton conjoined gules' (Woodville). Crest: A man's (moor's) head in profile proper ducally crowned or with a pointed cap gules;[1]
Title: GarterPlateHenryBourchier2ndEarlOfEssex
Credit: http://www.royalcollection.org.uk/microsites/knightsofthegarter/MicroObject.asp?row=13&themeid=455&item=14
Author: Artist unknown. Uploaded by (Lobsterthermidor (talk) 12:38, 21 November 2013 (UTC))
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