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St John The Baptist City Parish Church, Cardiff.

Heraldry

Three lancet windows, dated 1855, left to right:

Window left

11 shields, clockwise from top, arms of various historic Lords of Glamorgan, seated at Cardiff Castle ("Arms of the families who have possessed Cardiff Castle from 1091 to 1449")

• 1: Robert FitzHamon (d. 1107), first Norman feudal baron of Gloucester and the Norman conqueror of Glamorgan, Lord of Glamorgan in 1075
• 2: King John impaling de Cadomo (Robert FitzRoy, 1st Earl of Gloucester (c.1090-1147) (alias Robert Rufus, Robert de Caen (Latinised to Robertus de Cadomo), Robert Consul), an illegitimate son of King Henry I of England) (Gules, three clarions or)
• 3: De Burch impaling de Cadomo
• 4: De Clare, Earl of Gloucester and Hertford quartering de Cadomo (de Clare ancient / canting arms of de Clare")
• 5: Beauchamp impaling Despencer
• 6: Neville impaling quarterly of 4: Beauchamp quartering Despencer
• 7: Newburgh (Earl of Warwick) quartering Beauchamp (Earl of Warwick) with inescutcheon overall of Despencer
• 8: Despencer impaling de Clare
• 9: De Montfort quartering Earl of Everey (de Cadomo)
• 10: De Mandeville impaling de Cadomo
• 11: De Cadomo, Earl of Gloucester impaling FitzHamon

11 shields, 6 rows (in chronological order):

• Row 1 (top):
• Row 2:
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  • Right:
• Row 3:
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• Row 4:
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• Row 5:
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• Row 6:
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Window centre

Arms of John Patrick Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute (1847–1900), of Cardiff Castle. ("The arms of John Partick, 3rd Marquis of Bute, Earl of Dumfries, Baron Cardiff, of Cardiff Castle, etc, etc, during whose minority this aisle was acquired AD 1852"). Grand-quarterly of 4:

• 1:

• 1&4: Stuart of Bute
• 2&3: Crichton

• 2: Stuart of Bute
• 3: Windsor
• 4: Herbert

Window right

11 shields, 6 rows (in chronological order): ("Arms of the families who have possessed Cardiff Castle from 1449 to 1814")

• Row 1 (top): w:George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence (1449-1478), the 6th son of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, and Cecily Neville, and the brother of English kings Edward IV and Richard III. Impaling the arms of his wife Isabel Neville, the elder daughter and co-heiress of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (the Kingmaker), and Anne de Beauchamp, suo jure 16th Countess of Warwick, quarterly of 7
  • 1: Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick
  • 2: Newburgh, Earl of Warwick
  • 3: Montagu
  • 4: Monthermer
  • 5: Neville
  • 6: De Clare
  • 7: Despencer
• Row 2:
  • Left: "Richard Duke of Gloucester / Neville". Arms of King Richard III (as Duke of Gloucester) with inescutcheon of pretence for his wife Anne Neville, the younger of the two daughters and co-heiresses of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (the "Kingmaker") quarterly of 7
    • 1: Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick
    • 2: Newburgh, Earl of Warwick
    • 3: Montagu
    • 4: Monthermer
    • 5: Neville
    • 6: De Clare
    • 7: Despencer
  • Right: "De Hatfield, Earl of Pembroke", arms of Jasper Tudor, Duke of Bedford, Earl of Pembroke (c.1431-1495), born at Hatfield, the second son of Sir Owen Tudor of North Wales and Queen Catherine of Valois, the widow of King Henry V of England. He was thus a uterine half-brother to King Henry VI, who granted him a new augmented coat of arms in place of his paternal arms of Tudor. He was a leading architect of the successful accession to the throne in 1485 of his nephew King Henry VII of England (first monarch of the Tudor dynasty). Augmented arms of Jasper Tudor, Duke of Bedford: Royal arms of King Henry VI differenced by a bordure azure charged with martlets or
• Row 3:
  • Left: "Arthur, Prince of Wales" (eldest son and heir apparent of King Henry VII). These are in fact the arms of King Henry VII, differenced by a label of three points argent, as they impale the arms of his wife. The arms of Arthur, Prince of Wales, were the royal arms of King Henry VII differenced by a label of three points argent, and would have impaled the arms of his wife Catherine of Aragon, not those of his mother): Arms of King Henry VII impaling arms of his wife Elizabeth of York, daughter of King Edward IV, formerly 4th Duke of York. Quarterly of 4 (arms of Edward, 4th Duke of York):
    • 1: Royal arms of King Edward III (from whom King Edward IV claimed succession to the crown (in seniorority to the House of Lancaster) via Mortimer and de Burgh))
    • 2: De Burgh, Earl of Ulster
    • 3: De Burgh, Earl of Ulster
    • 4: Mortimer
  • Right: "Henry, Prince of Wales" (later King Henry VIII): Royal arms of King Henry VII differenced by a label of three points argent each point charged with three torteaux
• Row 4:
  • Left: "Herbert, Earl of Pembroke": William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke (1501-1570) (1551 creation), whose father, Sir Richard Herbert (d.1510) of Ewyas, Herefordshire, was an illegitimate son of William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke (1423–1469) (1468 creation). He married Anne Parr, sister of Henry VIII's sixth wife, w:Catherine Parr, and was created Earl in 1551. Arms of Herbert of Ewyas (arms of Herbert with bordure for difference due to illegitimacy): Per pale azure and gules, three lions rampant argent differenced by a bordure componée gules bezantée and or. The bordure was dropped by subsequent generations.
  • Right: "John, 2nd Lord Jefferys / Died 1685 (sic) / Herbert". John Jeffreys, 2nd Baron Jeffreys (1673–1702), first husband of Lady Charlotte Herbert, only daughter and heiress of w:Philip Herbert, 7th Earl of Pembroke
• Row 5:
  • Left: w:Thomas Windsor, 1st Viscount Windsor (c.1670-1738), who in 1703 married Lady Charlotte Herbert, only daughter and heiress of w:Philip Herbert, 7th Earl of Pembroke, by his wife Henriette de Kéroualle (sister of Louise de Kéroualle, the principal mistress to King Charles II), and widow of John Jeffreys, 2nd Baron Jeffreys. Arms: Windsor quartering ..... with inescutcheon of pretence overall of Herbert, with bordure omitted.
  • Right: w:Herbert Windsor, 2nd Viscount Windsor (1707–1758) who married Alice Clavering, daughter and heiress of Sir John Clavering, 3rd Baronet, by whom he had no male issue, but several daughters including Charlotte Jane Windsor (1746–1800) (Marchioness of Bute). Arms: Windsor quartering Herbert (without bordure), with inescutcheon of pretence overall of de Clavering
• Row 6:
  • Left: w:John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute, 4th Earl of Bute, who married Charlotte Jane Windsor (1746–1800), a daughter and principal co-heiress of w:Herbert Windsor, 2nd Viscount Windsor. In 1776 he was created Baron Cardiff in recognition of the vast estates in South Wales which he had inherited by his marriage. In 1776 the Mountjoy and Windsor titles held by his wife's family were revived when John Stuart (then 4th Earl of Bute) was made Viscount Mountjoy, Earl of Windsor and Marquess of Bute. Arms: Stuart of Bute with inescutcheon of Windsor, quarterly of 6:
    • 1: Windsor
    • 2: Vair (?)
    • 3: Herbert
    • 4: Argent, two bars Azure, within a bordure engrailed Sable (Parr (wife of William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke (1501-1570)))
    • 5: FitzHugh: Azure, three chevrons interlaced in base or a chief of the last (quartered by Herbert)
    • 6: Vairy, a fesse Gules (Marmion, quartered by Parr).
  • Right: w:John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute (1793-1848), grandson of John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute. He married firstly Maria North, eldest daughter and co-heiress of w:George North, 3rd Earl of Guilford and secondly Sophia Frederica Christina Rawdon-Hastings, a daughter of w:Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings. Arms: Quarterly of 4, with inescutcheon overall of North (Azure, a lion passant or between three fleurs-de-lis argent):
    • 1: Stuart of Bute
    • 2: Crichton
    • 3: Windsor
    • 4: Herbert

• • Impaling quarterly of 4:

• • • 1: Hastings (Earl of Huntingdon) (Argent, a maunch sable)
    • 2: Rawdon (Azure, a fess between three pheons sable)
    • 3: Campbell of Loudoun, Ayrshire / Campbell of Lawers ?: Gyronny of eight gules and ermine. John Campbell, 1st Earl of Loudoun (1598-1662) was the eldest son of Sir James Campbell of Lawers. He married Margaret Campbell, the eldest daughter of George Campbell, Master of Loudoun. Upon the death of her grandfather, Hugh Campbell, 1st Baron Loudoun, she became Baroness Loudoun, and her husband took his seat in the Parliament of Scotland in her right. He was created Earl of Loudoun in 1633. Flora Mure-Campbell, 6th Countess of Loudoun (1780–1840) married w:Francis Rawdon-Hastings, 1st Marquess of Hastings.
    • 4: Argent, on a fess azure three (mullets ?) of the field