Tombstone

Object type

Plaques

Date

Production: 1402

Subject(s)

Bearers of the Cross
Gender

Associated person

Subject: Lady Eschive de Renier (d.1402)
Subject: Balien Du Lyon (active c.1400)

Inscriptions

obverse: + CI : GIT . DAM : ESC/HIVE . D’RENIER . ESPO/UZ’ . D’BALIEN . D’LIOVN :/ Q’T’SPASSA . L’MERCR’/DI . A XX . IOVRS . D’S’T’BR’ . LAN . D’ . MCCCC . II . D’ X’ . Q’. DIEV . AIT LARM’ . AM° (Here lies the Lady Eschive de Renier, wife of Balien de Lyon, who died on Wednesday 20th September in the year of Christ 1402. May God receive her poor soul. [Translation from Old French provided by Maria Aimé Villano, 25 October 2022.])

Dimensions

Height x width x depth: 230 x 230 x 30mm

Materials and technique

Engraved marble

Production place

Famagusta
Cyprus

References

Foakes, Tom, ed. Treasures: Faith, Care, Valour: Highlights from the Collection of the Museum of the Order of St John. Priory of England and the Islands of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem, 2019.
Page 103

Credit line

Gift of Professor Lionel Butler, 1977

Catalogue number

211008