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The Shakespeare coat of arms, detail of Shakespeare's funerary monument, Holy Trinity Church, Stratford. The Shakespeare coat of arms is an English coat of arms.It was granted to John Shakespeare (c. 1531 – 1601), a glover from Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, in 1596, and was used by his son, the playwright William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616), and other descendants.
English: Coat of arms of William Shakespeare, also used by his father John Shakespeare. Granted by the College of arms in 1596. Blason: Or on a bend sable, a spear of the first, steeled argent; and for his crest a falcon his wings displayed argent, standing on a wreath of his colours supporting a spear gold, steeled as aforesaid, set upon a helmet with mantles and tassles.
Arms of William Shakespeare, as granted to his father John circa 1600. Blazon: or, on a bend sable, a tilting-spear of the field headed argent. The crest, not shown here, is a falcon with wings displayed argent supporting a tilting-spear as in the arms. For a contemporary depiction, see File:Shakespear ye Player coatofarms.jpg.
Shakespeare's coat of arms, from the 1602 book The book of coates and creasts. Promptuarium armorum. It features spears as a pun on the family name. [c] After the birth of the twins, Shakespeare left few historical traces until he is mentioned as part of the London theatre scene in 1592.
It features a bust of the poet, who holds a quill pen in one hand and a piece of paper in another. His arms are resting on a cushion. Above him is the Shakespeare family's coat of arms, on either side of which stands two allegorical figures: one, representing Labour, holds a spade, the other, representing Rest, holds a torch and a skull.
The coat-of-arms is seen to be pictorially expressing Shakespeare's name with the verb "shake" shown by the falcon with its fluttering wings grasping a "spear". [ 53 ] [ 54 ] William Dethick is mentioned in all the application drafts, as the "Garter-Principal king of Arms in England".
Thomas Lucy's coat of arms, depicting "luces" , from William Dugdale's Antiquities of Warwickshire. Shakespeare is sometimes thought to have satirised Lucy with the character of Justice Shallow, who appears in Henry IV, Part 2 and The Merry Wives of Windsor. [6]
de Vere family coat of arms with a mullet in the first quarter of the shield Castle Hedingham – the de Vere family seat. The Norman keep is all that remains of the castle in Essex where most of the land was concentrated.