Book of Additions: Difference between revisions

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Matthew Paris (c. 1200-1259) became a monk of St. Albans in 1217, and in 1236 became the abbey chronicler, a task which allowed him to exercise and explore his talents as a scribe, and as an accomplished and inventive artist.
Most of this manuscript is written in Matthew's own distinctive handwriting, as are the miniatures, except for some added in the 14th century.
The 'Book of Additions' contains a variety of miscellaneous texts and images. Among Matthew's many other interests was heraldry.
Here he has laid out in rows copies of the shields of members of the English nobility.

Folio 170a
1. Holy Roman Emperor
2. King of France
3. King of Scotland
4. Nicholas de Moels
5. Nicholas de Kenet

6. Gilbert de Umfraville
7. Richard de Percy

7. Richard de Percy
8. John Balliol
9. Eustace Balliol
Brother of preceding
10. Robert de Ros

11. Giffard and Hussey
12. Gerard and William de Odingseles
13. Hugh Despencer
14. John de Lexington
15. King of Navarre

16. Robert de Tattershall
17. Earl of Ferrers
18. Count of La Marche
19. William de Valence
Son of preceding
20. Gui de Lusignan
Brother of preceding

21. Hamo de Crevequer
22. John de Balliol
23. Richard de Grey
24. Richard de Siward
25. Robert de Thweng

26. Herbert Fitz-Matthew (?)
27. King of Castile and Leon
28. Raymond Berenger of Provence (?)

De Lancaster
Mauduit
Geoffroy de Beauchamp
Furnival
Berners

Folio 170b
1. Lord King
2. Earl Richard

2. Earl Richard
3. Earl of Clare
4. Earl of Arundel
5. Earl of Leicester
6. Earl of Warenne

7. William Longespee
8. Earl of Hereford
9. Earl of Ferrers
10. Earl of Winchester
11. Earl of Bigod
12. Earl of Warwick

13. Earl of Chester
14. Earl of Oxford
15. Earl of Kent
16. Earl of Devon
17. Earl Marshall
18. Earl of Hungtindon

18. Earl of Hungtindon

19. Earl of Lincoln
20. Daubeney
21. William de Mandeville
22. Roger de Huntingfield
23. Richard de Montfichet
24. de Tony

25. William de Cantilupe
26. John de Beauchamp
27. William de Beauchamp
28. John de Bassingbourn
29. Roger de Cressy
30. Hugh de Neville

31. Robert FitzWalter
32. Gilbert Pecche
33. Basset
34. William de Vescy
35. Richard de Argentine
36. Count of Flanders

37. Earl of Albemarle
38. Randolph FitzNicholas
39. Robert Harenc
40. Robert Muschet
41. Count of Toulouse
42. Duke of Brabant

King of Jerusalem
Aragon
Furnival

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+Herbert Paris.svg|26. Herbert Fitz-Matthew (?)
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