Update Re: The Sun in Spendour?

--- In , "Phaeton G" wrote:
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> ...someone on this group thinks Richard related 1:1 to the sun emblem:
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> "The Sun in Splendour was the motif on Richard's banner, it was
> one of his central motifs...it appears to be a crucial part of how he saw himself...he explained that he WAS the sun in splendour, because God had made him to shine brightly among the stars of the nobility"
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> http://groups.yahoo.com/group//message/1295
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> I wonder why Edward II adopted the sun motif though?
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Found a York Minster reference to a stained glass - Edward II's wife, Queen Isabella of France:

"Edward II's wife Isabella, who can be seen with a sable rayed sun behind her. "

Isabella's arms also seem to display a stylised sun?

http://etc.usf.edu/clipart/80400/80441/80441_shieldisabel.htm

Ric