British Heraldry

Contents

• Heraldry
• Regulation of Heraldry in England
  • The Writs of 1417
  • Armory of English commoners, 14th-15th c.
  • Cases of the Court of Chivalry
  • Arms found on Merchant Tokens, 1644-1673
  • Statistics on Grants of Arms by English Kings of Arms
  • on the lawfulness of assumed arms: Austen v. Collins (1886)
  • on name and arms clauses: Jarman on Wills
• Heralds
  • List of Heralds of England, Scotland and Ireland
  • The Earl Marshal
  • Letters creating Ulster, 1552
• Royal heraldry
  • The Royal Arms of Great Britain
  • Marks of Cadency in the Royal Family
• Scotland
  • The Powers of Lyon King of Arms
  • A Note on Scots Heraldry by James Dempster
  • An Annotated Bibliography of Scottish Heraldic Materials
    by Leslie A. Schweitzer and David Hunter of Montlaw
  • Scots Members of the French Nobility
• Miscellaneous
  • Heraldry in the Anglican Church
  • List of the Knights of the Garter since the foundation
  • The regulation of foreign titles in the UK
  • The regulation of foreign orders in the UK
• Bibliography
  
  • General books on British heraldry
  • British armories (to find a family's coat of arms)
  • British ordinaries (to identify a coat of arms' family)
  
  
• Royalty
• Succession laws and royals styles in Great Britain
• Royal Styles in Great Britain
  • Statutes and Proclamations (1542 to 1953)
  • Proclamations of Accession from 1547 to 1952
  • royal deposita (1648-1889)
• style and title of Prince and Highness in the Royal family
  • Letters Patent and Royal Warrants (1816 to 1957)
  • source material from the National Archives (UK)
• The Titles Deprivation Act 1917
• royal consents under the RMA 1772 (1791-1980)

Other Resources on the Web

• The College of Arms in London is the heraldic authority for England, Wales and several other countries.
• The Lyon Court in Edinburgh is the heraldic authority for Scotland.
• The Heraldry Society of Scotland
• Heraldry Society of England.
• The Harleian Society, renowned publishers of heraldic material
• Civic Heraldry of England and Wales by Robert Young, with illustrations and notes.
• The Norfolk Heraldry Society , a local heraldry society's website.
• Untied Kingdom Genalogy, containing the Visitations of Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Cornwall, Berkshire, Worcestershire, Hertfordshire, London, Kent, Wiltshire, Norfolk, and Gloucestershire for the period 1530-1666 online.
• The Vale Royal, an illustrated online version of a 1656 armory of Cheshire gentry, by Martin Goldstraw.
• The British Ordinary of Arms: an On-line Ordinary of British Arms prior to 1530. Access is restricted, unfortunately.
• Hereditary Titles: lists of peerage and baronetage, extinct titles, notices on various peers, coats of arms
• Guillim's Display of Heraldrie (1610) online, an ongoing project by Paul Grant.
• Miscellaneous:
• Hereford and Worcester coat of arms

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