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. Known by Matthew as his 'Book of Additions', it 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.

Kingdom of Jerusalem

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 Longspee
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 of 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. Earl of Flanders

Aragon

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

Furnival

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