![]() ![]() ![]() That in itself is a fascinating, wonderful and sometimes horrifying story! Catherine Armstrong on the Marshal Effigies I must emphasise I don't disagree with her on the point that these effigies cannot be identified with absolute conviction and I applaud her diligent research into the life of the effigies before the 21st century. Here is Catherine's highly detailed article. I've been intending to write out my refutation argument and put it in the public arena for several years now, and I have finally got around to it. ![]() I wrote to Catherine setting out my case for disagreeing with her on the issue of the arms and armour some years ago, and received a thank you note, but nothing more. I believe that at least one of them can be circumstantially identified as Gilbert Marshal. While I agree with her that precise evidence doesn't exist and the effigies could indeed have been mis-identified because after all, none of them have inscriptions, I do disagree with her assessment of the arms and armour of the effigies. Some time ago I read a post on the Castle Wales site by Historian Catherine Armstrong where she laid out her case for the purported Marshal effigies in the Temple Church, London, being of debatable identity and perhaps not the Marshals at all. ![]()
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