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Hace 5 días · Clarenceux, meaning the inhabitants of Clarence, that is the domains of the Earls of Clare, is first known in connection with a king of arms c. 1334 in the person of Andrew 'Clarencell (orum) rex heraldus'.
Hace 5 días · His province stretches from the river Trent to the Scottish border. At first the kings of arms of this province used various titles with the addition 'of the north' or 'of the Norreis' (northmen), but in 1464 Thomas Holme was named Norroy and that name has been used ever since.
Hace 3 días · England, the College of Arms was established in 1484 to maintain a record of arms and pedigrees, and official heralds have maintained and expanded those records (Noble1805). Early American colonists interested in family background sometimes consulted the heralds to verify their lineages, on occasion employing go-betweens to examine ...
Hace 4 días · The original case papers are located at the College of Arms in London and the Earl Marshal’s archive at Arundel Castle, Sussex. The cases cover a wide variety of topics relating to the social, political and cultural history of the period, from ship money and the Bishops Wars to pew disputes and duelling, from heralds’ visitations ...
Hace 2 días · Also in the City are the London Stock Exchange (at Paternoster Square), St. Paul’s Cathedral, the Guildhall, Mansion House (the residence of the lord mayor), the Barbican arts complex and residential area, the main branch of the Museum of London, and the College of Arms.
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Hace 3 días · Since 1484 the Earl Marshal has supervised royal events through the College of Arms with assistance from quaintly named characters such as Garter King of Arms and Rouge Dragon Pursuivant. The payment these heralds receive is appropriately medieval.
Hace 2 días · A look at an illustrated manuscript by Ralph Brooke, a herald in the English College of Arms in the 1590s. During that period the college granted coats of arms to a prominent fishmonger and to William Shakespeare, but Brooke considered both applicants unworthy.
