The very poetical origin ascribed to the bishop is, no doubt, an allusion to the bearings of his parents, his father's arms being a rose;—who his mother was does not appear, but it seems not unlikely that she may have been of the house of Swalenburg, which bore a star, and between which and that of Lippe, intermarriages took place at various times.
This memorial was originally laid down in the centre of the church, and a "corona" (a corona lucis?) hung over it; it is now fixed against a pier in the nave.
The second in date was of a part of the engraved table on which lies the effigy of Henry Bockholt, Bishop of Lubeck, in the cathedral of that city. He died A.D. 1347. The greater part is covered by a diaper of fleur-de-lis, but at the sides are small figures of angels, under canopies, holding censers, tapers, &c., and an inscription surrounding the whole; one part of this is in Lombardic and another in Gothic characters.
The third rubbing, like the first, was from an engraved "figure" (i. e. a figure cut out, and not a plate) brass representing a Bishop of Paderborn, and in the south transept of that cathedral. The inscription is lost; but, by means of the arms, it may be identified as the memorial of Henry Spiegel von Dessenberg, who filled the see from 1360 to 1380. The last date seems to correspond very well with the style of the drawing and engraving. He is recorded to have been the first Bishop of Paderborn, who, occupying himself with the temporal concerns of the see, appointed a vicar, to whom he entrusted the spiritual. He waged successful war against the neighbouring robber-knights, and is described as having been more a Prince than a Bishop.
The figure is 5 feet 10 inches long, and represents the bishop in eucharistic vestments, holding a book in the left, and a crozier in the right hand. One of the feet is placed upon a lion, the other on the back of an armed man, who is resting on his knees and elbows, and holds a heavy sword in his right hand.
The inscription, probably, was engraved on a fillet of brass surrounding the figure; the angles were occupied by quatrefoils enclosing escutcheons; two only of these remain. One contains a shield bearing the arms of Paderborn, charged with a small inescutcheon, on which are three mirrors. (Spiegel). The other bears, party per fess, in chief a demy lion rampant; in base a field lozengy.
The lost inscription is given by Schaten (vol. ii, p. 410,) as follows:—
Mille quadringentis bis denis inde retentis
Præsul is Henricus procerum flos pacis amator
Singula vir prudens justo moderamine gessit
Salvus dum vixit hanc Ecclesiam bene rexit
Cum triplici speculo projacet in tumulo.
The fourth example was also from the cathedral of Paderborn, and represented a bishop of that see, Robert or Ruprecht, son of Robert William, Duke of Julius and Berg and Count of Ravensberg, and of Anne, daughter of Robert, Duke of Bavaria. He filled the see from 1390 to 1394. The events which occurred at the time of his election are curious proofs of the anarchical condition of Germany at the time. He was then a canon of Cologne, and a very young man, but was elected bishop both by the Chapter of Paderborn and by that of Passau, no doubt in consequence
