Walter de la Wyle rose from comparatively humble origins within the minor clergy of Salisbury to attain one of the most senior ecclesiastical offices in southern England. His election as bishop in 1263 was unusual in an age when episcopal sees were frequently dominated by nobles or royal administrators, and it reflected both the confidence of the cathedral chapter and the growing institutional independence of Salisbury.
William Marshal was an Anglo-Norman knight, magnate, and statesman whose career spanned the reigns of Henry II of England ⓘ, Richard I of England ⓘ, John of England ⓘ, and Henry III of England. Rising from a landless younger son to regent of England, he became one of the most influential figures of the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pieridae
Genus: Belenois
Species: B. aurota
Window 204 consists of two tall lancets forming part of the celebrated early thirteenth-century clerestory ⓘ glazing of Bourges Cathedral. The saints represented, Andrew on the left and John the Evangelist on the right, are shown as full-height standing figures beneath architectural canopies, framed by the characteristic geometric borders of the Bourges workshop.
Window w.206 forms part of the major early 13th-century glazing programme of the choir clerestory ⓘ at Bourges Cathedral. Like the other apostolic lancets in this zone, it presents three full-length apostles standing beneath architectural canopies, each framed by the characteristic red–blue geometric borders of the Bourges workshop. The style, palette, and facial types align closely with the glazing campaigns dated to c.1210–1215.
