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Full view, pair of misericords: left: arms of Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk; right arms of Sir Robert Wingfield (died 1480)

Arms of Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk (1366-1399) sculpted on a misericord, dated circa 1480, in East Harling Church, Norfolk. It forms a pair with File:Arms SirRobertWingfield (died1480) Misericord EastHarlingChurch, Norfolk.png a similar object displaying the arms of Sir Robert Wingfield (died 1480), the second husband of Anne Harling (c.1426-1498), the only child and sole heiress of Sir Robert Harling (d.1435) of East Harling, by his wife Jane Gonville, the daughter and heiress of John Gonville by his wife Elizabeth Jernegan.

The misericord is possibly a tribute to John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk (c.1425-1485) a descendant of Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk and the contemporary of Sir Robert Wingfield (died 1480). One of the main seats of John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk, was Kenninghall, inherited from the Mowbrays, (Robinson, John Martin, The Dukes of Norfolk, Oxford, 1982, p.37) situated 8 km east of East Harling Hall, indeed the manor of East Harling was held from the Howard family as overlords. (Source: David J King, Apollo Magazine, May 2004, Who was Holbein's Lady with a squirrel and a starling? Ever since it was acquired by the National Gallery, London, in 1992 this celebrated English portrait by Holbein has remained tantalisingly anonymous. A detective trail has led David J King to East Harling in Norfolk, where clues in stained glass and a tomb reveal the sitter's identity [1]). Sir William Howard (d.1308) of East Winch in Norfolk, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, the founder of the Howard family, married firstly Alice Ufford, a daughter of Sir Robert Ufford, but produced no issue by her. His great-grandson Sir Robert Howard married Margaret Scales, a daughter (and in her issue the heiress) of the 3rd Baron Scales of Newcells. The arms of Ufford and Scales appear on the misericord.

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3 shields, left to right:

  • Hanging from a guige strap: Sable, a cross engrailed or (Ufford) Possibly for w:Robert Ufford, 1st Earl of Suffolk (1298-1369), KG; possibly a reference to Alice Ufford, a daughter of Sir Robert Ufford, and first wife of Sir William Howard (d.1308) of East Winch in Norfolk, founder of the Howard family.
  • Gules, three lions passant guardant in pale or (royal arms of Plantagenet) with a label of three points argent for difference. Arms of Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk (1366-1399), who married secondly, Lady Elizabeth FitzAlan (c.1372-1425), daughter and heiress of Richard FitzAlan, 11th Earl of Arundel. His sons by Elizabeth FitzAlan included Thomas de Mowbray, 4th Earl of Norfolk and John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk. He was the second son of w:John de Mowbray, 4th Baron Mowbray, and Elizabeth de Segrave, suo jure Baroness Segrave, daughter and heiress of w:John de Segrave, 4th Baron Segrave, by w:Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk, daughter and heiress of w:Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk (1300-1338), 5th son of King Edward I. The differenced royal arms were a special grant from King Richard II to him, being the arms of Mowbray's maternal great-grandfather Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, 5th son of King Edward I: Royal arms of King Edward I, a label of three points argent for difference. Impaling: Quarterly of 4:
    • 1&4: Gules, a lion rampant or (FitzAlan, for his wife Lady Elizabeth FitzAlan)
    • 2&3: Chequy or and azure (de Warenne) Edmund FitzAlan, 2nd Earl of Arundel (1285-1326), married Alice de Warenne, sister and heiress of John de Warenne, 7th Earl of Surrey.
  • Hanging from a guige strap: Gules, six escallops 3,2,1 argent (Scales) Possibly for w:Thomas Scales, 7th Baron Scales (1399-1460), KG ; possibly a reference to Margaret Scales, a daughter (and in her issue the heiress) of w:Robert Scales, 3rd Baron Scales (d.1369) of Newcells and wife of Sir Robert Howard.
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Source Detail cropped from File:Misericord Stalls, North, Raised, Church of St Peter and St Paul, East Harling.jpg by "User:Colin / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0", photo taken 2019
Author Cropped by Lobsterthermidor (talk) 23:11, 14 December 2021 (UTC), original photo by "User:Colin / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0"

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