The tomb of Godfrey Giffard, Bishop of Worcester 1268-1302. This tomb, along with that of his sister Matilda, was formerly situated to the right of the Cathedral's high altar, but they were moved to allow construction in 1502 of the magnificent chantry chapel for Prince Arthur. The Giffard tombs were subsequently relocated to recesses below Prince Arthur's chantry visible from the south choir aisle.

Godfrey Giffard (1235-1302), chancellor of England and bishop of Worcester, was the son of Hugh Giffard of Boyton in Wiltshire, a royal justice, and of his wife Sibyl, daughter and coheiress of Walter de Cormeilles.

The estate at Knightwick evidently passed to the Mapnors, and was given by Walter de Mapnor or his daughter Lucy to the Prior of Great Malvern before 1274–5. Lucy apparently still lived at Knightwick or held some estate there in 1280, for she paid 12d. in that year towards the lay subsidy, while the Prior of Great Malvern paid 20s. In 1283 the manor was given by the Prior of Great Malvern to Bishop Godfrey Giffard in compensation when the title of Westminster to Great Malvern was finally settled.

The bishop leased the manor in 1318 to Master Peter Fillol, rector of the church of Martley, and in 1324–5 to John Collan for life. It was again leased in 1336 for the lives of William de Massington and Agnes his wife. In 1460–1 the bishop leased the site of the manor to Thomas Romney of Lulsley, Isabel his wife and John their son for a term of seventy years. The manor was valued at £8 in 1535.

Giffard was involved in another great dispute with the Abbot of Westminster. He had deposed William of Ledbury, prior of Malvern, for gross crimes. The monks of Westminster took up William's cause, as Malvern was a cell of their abbey, and obtained the king's support. In the end Giffard was glad to compromise the case, and received a grant of land at Knightwick not to visit Malvern as his predecessors had done (1283), and Ledbury was restored.

 

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