Travelling back to the eastern limits of the medieval diocese of Salisbury the Pilgrimage now comes to Windsor and the devotion to Our Lady at St George’s Chapel within Windsor Castle - and possibly by extension at the nearby foundation of King Henry VI at Eton College.
My previous posts on the images at the centre of Marian veneration at Windsor can be accessed from Marian Pilgrimage - Our Lady of Windsor
By working back through the links to my.first, and most detailed one in 2020, readers will see that I suggest sine if the statues might have resembled the wonderful, yet but delightfully charming Goldenes Rossl given in 1405 as a New Year’s gift to King Charles VI of France by his Queen, Isabeau of Bavaria, and which the King almost immediately gave to the Queen’s brother, the Duke of Bavaria, which is why it now survives at the great Bavarian Marian shrine at Alttöting
I have now copied some close up images of this exquisite object and which give an ideas of the opulence of court and ecclesiastical art at the time. In spirit at least such objects as this piece and others in the Louvre and British Museum, anticipate Fabergé’s Imperial Easter Eggs
Detail of King Charles VI
King Charles VI of France kneels before the Virgin and Child
Image:ima.princeton.edu
Our Lady and the Christ Child
Image: antonbrandl.de
Detail of King Charles VI
Image: antonbrandl.de
May Our Lady of Windsor intercede for us and our intentions
Jesu mercy, Mary pray
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