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White is a surname either of English [1] or of Scottish and Irish origin, the latter being an anglicisation of the Scottish Gaelic MacGillebhàin, "Son of the fair gillie" and the Irish "Mac Faoitigh" or "de Faoite". [2] [3] [4] It is the seventeenth most common surname in England. [5]
In heraldry, the royal badges of England comprise the heraldic badges that were used by the monarchs of the Kingdom of England. Heraldic badges are distinctive to a person or family, similar to the arms and the crest. But unlike them, the badge is not an integral component of a coat of arms, although they can be displayed alongside them. Badges ...
The UK Government generally uses a simplified form of the arms that omits the helm and mantling, reduces the crest to the crown alone, and has no compartment. [10] Use of the royal arms by government departments and agencies is governed by the Cabinet Office .
Showing his various heraldic crests (St Edward the Confessor, England, Wales, France, Ireland, etc.) and his white boar badge, with the Warwick bear of his wife. With the development of heraldry in the Late Middle Ages , the boar makes an appearance as the White Boar , personal device of Richard III of England , used for large numbers of his ...
The coat of arms of England is the coat of arms historically used as arms of dominion by the monarchs of the Kingdom of England, and now used to symbolise England generally. [1] The arms were adopted c. 1200 by the Plantagenet kings and continued to be used by successive English and British monarchs; they are currently quartered with the arms ...
Possible arms of Henry II. King Henry I of England was said to have given a badge decorated with a lion to his son-in-law Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, and some have interpreted this as a grant of the lion arms later seen on his funerary enamel, but the first documented royal coat of arms appear on the Great Seal of Richard I, where he is depicted on horseback with a shield containing ...
The white rose was first adopted as a heraldic badge by Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York (1341–1402), the fourth surviving son of King Edward III of England. [2] One of his elder brothers, John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (1340–1399) adopted a red rose as a heraldic badge , the red rose of Lancaster .
The coat of arms of Great Britain was the coat of arms used by the monarchs of the Kingdom of Great Britain, which existed from 1707 to 1801.The kingdom came into being on 1 May 1707, with the political union of the Kingdom of Scotland and the Kingdom of England, which included Wales.