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Founders and Benefactors of Tewkesbury Abbey is in Tudor Books.
Fols. 6r-7v: Chapter 3 The great charter of Tewkesbury. William Fitzcount, 2nd Earl of Gloucester (d. 1183), stands holding a parchment roll. With grey hair and beard, he wears blue and gold bonnet with red and brown feathers, plate armour, a mantle lined with ermine over his heraldic surcoat. Illustrations probably by John of Evesham, monk at Tewkesbury, copied from painted statues, approx. 70 cm high, which decorated the abbey church. The manuscript has 46 leaves in all; leaf-size: 245 x 175 mm, except fols. 12, 16 and 38 which are smaller.
William Fitzrobert 2nd Earl Gloucester: he was born to Robert Normandy 1st Earl Gloucester and Mabel Fitzhamon Countess Gloucester. He a grandson of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England. On 31st October 1147 Robert Normandy 1st Earl Gloucester died. His son William succeeded 2nd Earl Gloucester. In or before 1151 William Fitzrobert 2nd Earl Gloucester and Hawise Beaumont Countess Gloucester were married. She by marriage Countess Gloucester. She the daughter of Robert Beaumont 2nd Earl of Leicester and Amice Gael Countess Leicester. He the son of Robert Normandy 1st Earl Gloucester and Mabel Fitzhamon Countess Gloucester. They were fourth cousins. He a grandson of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England. In 1183 William Fitzrobert 2nd Earl Gloucester died. His daughter Isabella succeeded 3rd Countess Gloucester.
Fols. 8v-42r. Chapter 4. The illustrated chronicle of the abbey’s founders and benefactorsOddo and Doddo, Dukes of Mercia (founded the abbey 715, died c. 725), the reputed founders of the abbey. In full armour with visors open, mantles over heraldic surcoats; they stand on a grassy knoll flanking a tree with pomegranates (or pine cones) and hold between them their shield; each also holding in the other hand a model of Tewkesbury, a church with a crossing tower, and perhaps Pershore, or the chapel at Deerhurst.
fol. 010r: Hugh, 'great duke of Mercia', lord of the manor of Tewkesbury (buried at Tewkesbury 812), he stands wearing a red bonnet, plate armour, with sword and dagger.
fol. 013r: Robert Fitzhamon (d. 1107), son of Hamon Dentatus, lord of Creully, Calvados in Normandy, a descendant of Rollo, and his wife, Sybil, as patrons of Tewkesbury Abbey’s reconstruction. Robert wears a red bonnet and blue tunic with a large golden lion rampant guardant over his armour. Sibyl wears a ‘gable’- hood with embroidered lappets, a red dress with slashed sleeves and a studded belt, tipped with metal. Their coats of arms below.
Robert Fitzhamon: he was born to Hamo Dapifer. Before 1090 he and Sibyl Montgomery were married. She the daughter of Roger "The Great" Montgomery 1st Earl of Shrewsbury and Mabel Belleme. In 1107 he died.
Sibyl Montgomery: Before 1079 she was born to Roger "The Great" Montgomery 1st Earl of Shrewsbury and Mabel Belleme. In 1107 Sibyl Montgomery died.
fol. 015r: Robert the Consul (illegitimate son of Henry I, and son-in-law of Fitzhamon, c. 1090-1147), created 1st Earl of Gloucester in 1122, and wife Mabilia, on green seats, supporting three models between them: Tewkesbury Abbey, Margam Abbey (Glam.) and St. James’s Priory, Bristol. He wears a red bonnet trimmed with ermine and a mantle over his heraldic surcoat; she wears a ‘gable’- hood, a brown dress with wide sleeves, and a rope belt. Three shields below.
Mabel Fitzhamon Countess Gloucester: she was born to Robert Fitzhamon and Sibyl Montgomery. In June 1119 Robert Normandy 1st Earl Gloucester and she were married at Lisieux, Calvados, Basse Normandie. She by marriage Countess Gloucester. He the illegitmate son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England and Daughter Gay. On 29th September 1157 she died.
fol. 021r: Hugh II Despenser, Earl of Gloucester (d. 1326), became lord through marriage to Gilbert III’s sister [Eleanor Clare Baroness Zouche Mortimer]. A youthful figure in a ruff, wearing a hat with the three feathers of the Prince of Wales, plate armour and a mantle over his heraldic surcoat; he holds a hawk on his unprotected left hand. He was Lord Chamberlain to King Edward of Carnarvon. Three shields.
Founders and Benefactors of Tewkesbury Abbey. fol. 028v: Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick (d. 1439), second husband of Isabel Despenser, in armour, wears red hat and cape over heraldic surcoat; he brandishes an over-sized unsheathed sword. Six shields (one partly obliterated).
fol. 031r: Isabel Despenser (1400-1439), in a bed with green tester and tassels, receiving the last rights from William of Bristol, a kneeling tonsured abbot in a brown habit (rather than the Benedictine black) but with the Benedictine cowl, he carries a large golden crozier.
fol. 036v: Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick (killed in battle 1471), 'the King-Maker', assumed the lordship of Gloucester and appropriated Sherston church to the convent: he stands holding his unsheathed sword upright. One shield.
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fol. 038v: Shield of Edward Prince of Wales, son of Henry VI, slain at Tewkesbury 1471.