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White Hart as a Royal Badge of Richard II. The White Hart ("hart" being an archaic word for a mature stag) was the personal badge of Richard II, who probably derived it from the arms of his mother, Joan "The Fair Maid of Kent", heiress of Edmund of Woodstock. It may also have been a pun on his name, as in "Rich-hart". [1]
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 Norman kings and their sons may have originally used lions as badges of kingship. The lion was a Royal Badge long before heraldic records, as Henry I gave a shield of golden lions to his son-in-law Geoffrey of Anjou in 1127. The seals of William II and Henry I included many devices regarded as badges. Stephen I used a sagittary (centaur) as ...
In the Wilton Diptych, Richard's own badge has pearls on the antler tips, which the angels' badges lack. The white hart in the badge on the Treasury Roll, which the painted one may have copied, had pearls and sat on a grass bed made of emeralds, [3] and a hart badge of Richard's inventoried in the possession of Duke Philip the Good of Burgundy ...
The royal supporters of England are the heraldic supporter creatures appearing on each side of the royal arms of England.The royal supporters of the monarchs of England displayed a variety, or even a menagerie, of real and imaginary heraldic beasts, either side of their royal arms of sovereignty, including lion, leopard, panther and tiger, antelope and hart, greyhound, boar and bull, falcon ...
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Great House at Sonning, formerly the White Hart, in Sonning, Berkshire, in England; White Hart Inn Archaeological Site, in New South Wales, Australia; White Hart, Bishopsgate, in London, England
Back of White Hart Inn, Southwark by Philip Norman. The White Hart Inn was a coaching inn located on Borough High Street in Southwark . [ 1 ] The inn is first recorded in 1406 but likely dates back to the late fourteenth century as the White Hart was the symbol of Richard II . [ 2 ]