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Description: | Lead brooch, from the cult of Henry VI, dating to the later 15th/early 16th century.
It is circular in plan with decoration in relief showing the king facing forwards against a diaper background. On the reverse is a loop which was used as an alternative to a pin in the pilgrim tradition.
Henry VI, killed in the reign of the Yorkist usurper Edward IV was never officially canonised by the Church authorities in Rome. However a cult which was part religious and part political grew up around him in the ealy Tudor years as propoganda to encourage support for the new regime and also to blacken the reputation of the previous ruling house (the Yorkists).
These badges were very popular from visits to Henry's resting place at Windsor. They can be seen as the last mass-produced favours of the War of the Roses.
Similar examples can be seen from excavations in Southwark (Egan; 2005; 207-8, nos. 1149 and 1150) | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Creator: | McIntosh, Frances | Identifier: | http://www.findsdatabase.org.uk/hms/pas_... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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