In my last article on the Bedesmen titled, The First Templars – King’s Bedesmen Part 1, I had detailed the beginning of my Bedesmen (Beadsmen) research hoping to prove some of the connections from this mysterious ancient order to the Templar orders of today. Below I would like to include some old pictures of the Bedesmen that most people probably have never seen that I have collected from open sources on the internet.

Beggars and Lady Outwith Edinburgh ( David Allan) – with permission from the National Gallery Edinburgh

A bedesman carved on the tomb of Ralph Fitzherbert who died in 1483

Bedesmen in the time of Henry VII

Bedesman from the hospital he founded, son and daughter of Sir Randal Brereton 1530 and wife Eleanor daughter of Peter Dutton of Hatton, Cheshire and Elizabeth Foulehurst

Bedesmen in 15thC Chantry in Worcester Cathedral

Tomb of Sir Harry Vernon (d.1515) and his wife, with effigies and richly carved tomb chest decorated with figures of bedesmen in niches;

Tomb of Sir Richard Herbert of Ewyas  in St Mary’s Priory church, Abergavenny with a Beadsman beneath his feet, praying for Richard’s soul

SOURCES:

jmc4 – Church Explorer

Moe

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