Clear and coloured glass with painted details and yellow (silver) stain. Depicting the arms of Mary of Burgundy impaled with those of Maximilian of Austria. From the Chapel of the Holy Blood, Bruges, c.1496.

Panel. Arms of Mary of Burgundy. Grosvenor Thomas collection.

Reconstruction of the windows in the Chapel of the Holy Blood:
Were 9 windows of two lights each.
19th replacements
Window 7: Emperor Maximilian & Mary of Burgundy
Window 8: Charles the Bold and Isabel of Bourbon
Window 9: Charles V and Isabella of Portugal

From the archives of the Confraternity of the Holy Blood – payments for glazing were recorded in 1483 and in 1496.

The ancient glass disappeared during the French invasion of 1797. The glass from the Chapel was sold by the municipality of Bruges to a local man for a miniscule sum who then sold them, at great profit, to an English man in the early 19th century. Believe the glass ended up with firm of Watson & Bethell.

There are coloured drawings of the windows, pre-dispersal, in the Chapel archives. In 1845 reproductions of the panels were made from these drawings by the glass painter Pluys.

In 1913 they were owned by Grosvenor Thomas. He acquired them from Kilburn Grange which was erected after 1830.

Rackham, in a letter of 1921, says panels were previously in Kilburn Grange which had been pulled down 10 or 12 years ago [presumably meaning 1909 or 1911]. The family of Major Cecil Peters of Sunbury Manor, Sunbury in Middlesex, formerly owned Kilburn Grange.

Mary was the daughter of Duke Charles the Bold of Burgundy (d.Jan. 1477) and his second wife Isabel of Bourbon (d.1465). She married Maximilian von Hapsburg, heir to the imperial throne in August 1477.
The impalements are reversed, Mary's arms are given precedent rather than Maximilian's. However the escutcheons of pretence are correctly placed.

From the Chapel of the Holy Blood, Bruges

C.444-1918