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... AUGMENTATIONS . ( J. W. ) Arms of EDWARD the Confessor - HOWARD augmentation - Sir JOHN CLERK , and the DUC DE LONGUEVILLE - DUNOIS- RUTLAND - Augmentations granted by HENRY VIII . to his wives - Grants by JAMES I. , and by CHARLES II ...
... AUGMENTATIONS . ( J. W. ) Arms of EDWARD the Confessor - HOWARD augmentation - Sir JOHN CLERK , and the DUC DE LONGUEVILLE - DUNOIS- RUTLAND - Augmentations granted by HENRY VIII . to his wives - Grants by JAMES I. , and by CHARLES II ...
Page 416
... , charged with lions gules , or purpure ) , is also attributed to him . His mother was ISABELLA of CAS- TILLE and LEON . On his seal the sail of the ship borne as Lord High Admiral is charged with an Augmentation derived ( 416 )
... , charged with lions gules , or purpure ) , is also attributed to him . His mother was ISABELLA of CAS- TILLE and LEON . On his seal the sail of the ship borne as Lord High Admiral is charged with an Augmentation derived ( 416 )
Page 417
... Augmentation derived from the arms of EDWARD the CONFESSOR , impaled with his own ( see Plate XXXIV . , fig . 4 , and page 474 ; the two labels in conjunction have an unusual appearance ) . This fashion had a great number of imitators ...
... Augmentation derived from the arms of EDWARD the CONFESSOR , impaled with his own ( see Plate XXXIV . , fig . 4 , and page 474 ; the two labels in conjunction have an unusual appearance ) . This fashion had a great number of imitators ...
Page 441
... Augmentation ; but SPENER ( Op . Her . , p . spec . , p . 130 ) is decidedly of opinion that the Portuguese escucheons commemo- rate such an alliance . It will be obvious that these are rather instances of MARSHALLING than of CADENCY ...
... Augmentation ; but SPENER ( Op . Her . , p . spec . , p . 130 ) is decidedly of opinion that the Portuguese escucheons commemo- rate such an alliance . It will be obvious that these are rather instances of MARSHALLING than of CADENCY ...
Page 475
... augmentation , as well as that of his own arms ( which were ENGLAND , a bordure argent ) , remains entire . We have the continuous bordure also on the seal of JOAN BEAUFORT , daughter of JOHN , Earl of SOMERSET , and Queen of JAMES I ...
... augmentation , as well as that of his own arms ( which were ENGLAND , a bordure argent ) , remains entire . We have the continuous bordure also on the seal of JOAN BEAUFORT , daughter of JOHN , Earl of SOMERSET , and Queen of JAMES I ...
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argent argent and azure argent and gules Armory augmentation AUSTRIA azure badge banner Barons baton bears bend-sinister bendlet blazon bordure bore borne brisure cadency cadets canton CASTILE Chapter charged CHARLES Chequy chevron chief colour componé Comte coronet Count of FLANDERS Countess Counts crescent crest cross crown d'argent d'Azur d'or debruised descent dexter difference differenced dimidiated DOUGLAS Duchy Duke eagle displayed Earl EDWARD EDWARD II ENGLAND engrailed ermine escallops escucheon en surtout examples fess FLANDERS fleurs-de-lis FRANCE golden granted gueules gules head heiress helm HENRY HENRY III heraldic Heraldry horns illegitimacy impaled Imperial JEAN King knight label lion rampant lion rampant gules Lord LOUIS mantling Marquises martlets motto mullets Ordinary pairle pale placed Plate Prince quartered coat Quarterly Queen Roll Royal Arms sable saltire Scotland Scottish seal Seigneur semé shield sinister Sir JOHN supporters term applied tincture vert VRÉE WILLIAM wings
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Page 750 - Know Ye .that We of our princely grace and special favour, have given and granted and by these Presents do give and grant unto him the said...
Page 750 - SPEKE, Esquire, Captain in our Indian Military Forces, in connection with the discovery of the sources of the Nile, and who was, by a deplorable accident, suddenly deprived of his life before he had received any mark of our Royal favour ; and being desirous of preserving in his family the remembrance of these services by the grant of certain honourable armorial distinctions to his family arms : — Know ye that we, of our...
Page 534 - In his own country the king granted these honourable augmentations to his armorial ensign : a chief undulated, argent; thereon waves of the sea; from which a palm tree issuant, between a disabled ship on the dexter, and a ruinous battery on the sinister, all proper...
Page 750 - ... des armes de celuy qui le portera, et sur le dit lambrequin au plus haut du sommet, sera assis le dit Tymbre, et autour d'iceluy aura vn tortil des couleurs que voudra le Tournoyeur. " Item, et quand tous les heaulmes seront ainsi mis et ordonnez pour les departir, viendront toutes Dames et...
Page 398 - He was twentieth in descent from Geoffrey Lord Saye, who was one of the twenty-five barons appointed to enforce the observance of Magna Charta. The family, paternally of Yorkshire origin, is descended from John Twisleton, of Barley, Yorkshire, who married the Hon.
Page 627 - SUPPORTERS are figures of living creatures placed at the side, or sides, of an armorial shield, and appearing to support it. French writers make a distinction, giving the name of Supports to animals, real or imaginary, thus employed ; while human figures or angels similarly used are called Tenants.
Page 652 - ... qui y appartiennent. Et s'il les a, il doit à la première bataille , où il se trouvera , apporter un pennon de ses armes, et doit venir au...
Page 604 - ... their Coats of Arms in the British dominions. But this was not always the case in Germany; for some of the great ecclesiastics, archbishops, bishops, abbots, and even others held their fiefs direct from the emperor, and as such were liable to feudal military service. Spener, the great German herald, says that in Germany, at any rate, universal custom is opposed to the omission of the crest, and ecclesiastics retained the full knightly insignia. On the other hand, in the southern kingdoms, clerics...
Page 652 - ... il doit, à la première bataille où il se trouvera, apporter un pennon de ses armes et doit venir au connétable, ou aux...
Page 628 - The old romances give us evidence that this custom prevailed ; but I think only after the use of supporters had already arisen from another source. "There is really little doubt now that Anstis was quite correct when, in his Aspilogia, he attributed the origin of supporters to the invention of the engraver, who filled up the spaces at the top and sides of the triangular shield upon a circular seal with foliage, or with fanciful animals. Any good collection of mediaeval seals will strengthen this...