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It is obscure why Richard chose the name but it emphasised Richard's hierarchal status as Geoffrey's, and six English kings', patrilineal descendant during the Wars of the Roses. The retrospective usage of the name for all Geoffrey's male descendants became popular in Tudor times probably encouraged by the added legitimacy it gave Richard's ...
White Boar badge with Richard III's motto Loyaulte me lie ("Loyalty binds me"). Richard and his son standing on boars in a contemporary heraldic roll by John Rous. The White Boar was the personal device or badge of the English King Richard III of England (1452–1485, reigned from 1483), and is an early instance of the use of boars in heraldry.
In chief two roses gules, and in base as many argent. Richard III: The St George's Cross in the hoist. Azure and gules, bordered murrey and azure. A White boar of Richard III, between roses argent, barbed, seeded, and irradiated or, LOYAUTE. In chief a rose argent, and in base another. ME LIE. Five roses argent, three in chief, and two in base ...
Richard II, also known as Richard of Bordeaux, was King of England from 1377 until he was deposed in 1399. During Richard's first years as king, government was in the hands of a series of regency councils, influenced by Richard's uncles John of Gaunt and Thomas of Woodstock. England then faced various problems, most notably the Hundred Years' War.
Richard II adopted the attributed arms of King Edward the Confessor and impaling the royal arms of England, denoting a mystical union. 1406–1422: Henry IV abandoned the attributed arms of King Edward the Confessor, and reduced the fleurs-de-lis to three, in imitation of Charles V of France. [4] [9] 1422–1461 1470–1471
The bezant in fact derives from the arms of Richard, Earl of Cornwall. Rose: the rose is an extremely common charge in Cornish heraldry, thought by Lower to originate in the Wars of the Roses. William Smith Ellis thought it might have been derived from an unknown Anglo-Norman family in Cornwall using it as an emblem and passing it on to their ...
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The boar can represent either the House of York (whose Edward IV deposed the House of Lancaster) or specifically Richard III of England (whose symbol was the white boar), who endangered the future Henry VII of England's life, causing his uncle Jasper Tudor to flee the country with him - or represents both.