This unique triple death-bed scene shows the death of William’s three principal Cistercian opponents, who all died within a few weeks of each other in 1153. Across the bottom is Pope Eugenius in Rome, wearing his papal tiara and with a grieving cardinal by his bed. Behind and to the right is St Bernard at Clairvaux, identified by his tonsure and his abbatial crozier, accompanied by a monk. To the left is Archbishop Henry Murdac in Yorkshire, with his mitre on his head and his pallium draped over the bed, with a canon at his bedside.
