Screenshot notices of two events at Leeds Castle, from the official website. On the left, "Easter at Leeds Castle", with the building in the background, fairies & dragons in the garden. On the right, "The Queen's Joust", showing three mounted knights in play armour of assorted periods, the leading one on a dejected paisley-clad horse carrying a shield of later shape with the arms of the Clare family (Or three chevrons gules, i.e. three red chevrons on gold) within the black border with golden teardrops innovatively adopted by Elizabeth de Burgh, Lady of Clare. However she impaled the Clare arms inside the border with those of de Burgh. No historic figure would have used arms like this, but they are evocative of the Lady of Clare, a granddaughter of Queen Eleanor of Castile, who certainly visited Leeds Castle.
All who recognise the distinctive arms of Elizabeth de Burgh, #LadyOfClare, will be surprised to see a man in armour at #LeedsCastle bearing Clare family arms in a border she adopted after extinction of the male line. Meanwhile the horse wears... paisley? In her […]
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