Hubert Walter was an influential royal adviser in the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries in the positions of Chief Justiciar of England, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Lord Chancellor. As chan
Statue of Hubert Walter from the exterior of Canterbury Cathedral
The capture of King Richard I from the Chronicle of Petrus de Ebulo, 1197
King John from the medieval manuscript, Historia Anglorum c. 1250–1259
Walter's tomb was opened in 1890 and his pair of buskins, crozier, paten (illustrated here) and chalice were discovered.
Geoffrey was an illegitimate son of King Henry II of England who became bishop-elect of Lincoln and archbishop of York. The identity of his mother is uncertain, but she may have been named Ykenai. Geo
Henry II with Thomas Becket, from a 13th-century illuminated manuscript
Dover Castle, where Geoffrey was briefly imprisoned
Scenes from the Life of Christ in the Leiden St Louis Psalter made for Geoffrey