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English: Window in Selham church, directly behind the organist. Text from website greatenglishchurches.co.uk by Lionel Wall[1]: Finally, we have to mention the Rev Robert Blackburn, rector here for a remarkable fifty-seven years from 1842 to 1899. He married Eliza Jane Clutterbuck who by various intermarriages was descended from Thomas Plantagenet, a son of Edward I. Mr Blackburn threw himself into her genealogy with messianic zeal going far beyond Edward I to such as Charlemagne, Alfred the Great and William the Conqueror. Having taken this vicarious pleasure in his antecedents by marriage he proceeded to show them off through new stained glass for the west and south aisle windows. It was, when you think about it, an act of remarkable hubris and Rev Blackburn’s long rectorship evidently gave him notions of ownership! Nevertheless, there he is, a mere commoner, immortalised – even celebrated - in a one thousand year old church until such time as some sort of upheaval leads to their replacement. England, for sure, is a funny old country. The other Blackburn heraldic window (of two lights) is commented on as follows One of the Rev Blackburn’s windows. The top panel is of Fulk V, King of Jerusalem in 1131 (amongst other things). Then working from the left downwards we have Egbert, King of England in AD 827 and forebear of Edward I; Edward I; William the Conqueror; The French Capetian dynasty. Then working down the right hand side we get: Counts of Angouleme - one of whom was grandmother to Edward I; Kingdom of Castille; Dukedom of Aquitaine; Dukedom of Burgundy. Life is too short to list how all these came to be in the Blackburn family tree but you will find out readily enough on the internet. The excellent Church Guide has a very good account from which I have lifted this bare-bones description. Arms, top to bottom:
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