History

This is a much better preserved clerical figure in St Edmund’s chapel. He was Archbishop of York and the brass was raised up on a low dais in the 19th century to preserve it. At the top of the beautiful canopy is the coat of arms as borne by Richard II, his patron. Two other shields are now missing. He wears a jewelled mitre, mass vestments, tunicle and dalmatic and holds his pastoral staff surmounted by a cross. His right gloved hand is raised in benediction. He was born in Yorkshire and took his name from the town of Waldeby in that county. He accompanied Edward, the ‘Black Prince’, to France and studied at the university of Toulouse. He was made Bishop of Aire in France, then Archbishop of Dublin and Bishop of Chichester.