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A Note Upon Six Stall Plates of Degraded Knights of the Garter

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 April 2011

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Ashmole MS 1121 in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, contains details of six Stall Plates which it would appear were removed from St George's Chapel following Degradation from the Order of the Garter. Of these, three are those of Companions whose names do not appear in the generally accepted lists of those who were formally degraded.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1990

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2 Rouge Croix (confirmed 1660), Richmond Herald 1677, resigned 1704, died 1707. It is not known how this collection, for the plates must have been removed over a period of eighty years, came into Dethick's possession, nor is its subsequent fate known.

3 The Woodstock coat displaying France Modern appears upon the Stall Plate of Buck-ingham's father in St George's Chapel North 11. For the circumstances of its adoption see Sandford, F., Genealogical History of the Kings of England (London, 1683), 227 and 232Google Scholar . Wagner, A. R., Heralds of England (London, 1967), 69Google Scholar and Begent, P. J., A Noble Place Indeed. An Heraldic Tour of St. George's Chapel (n.p., 1983), 516Google Scholar.

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9 P.C.C. 10 Loftes. Prob. 11.44 (Box 3).

10 His namesake Thomas Lord Darcy of Darcy was degraded in 1537. No plate for him survives.

11 John Dudley the son of Edmund Dudley and his wife Elizabeth (Grey) suo jure Baroness Lisle of Kingston Lisle was created Viscount Lisle in 1542, Earl of Warwick in 1547 and Duke of Northumber-land in 1551.

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