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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]
Royal badges have been in use since the earliest stages of English heraldry. They are invariably simple devices, and numerous examples were adopted and inherited by various sovereigns. These are found in the glass and fabric of royal palaces and memorial chapels, and sometimes in the houses of those who enjoyed or anticipated royal patronage. [2]
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 in 1435 was set with 22 pearls, two spinels, two sapphires, a ruby and a huge diamond.
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 ...
The White Hart, badge of Richard II of England; The White Hart (novel) by Nancy Springer This page was last edited on 10 ...
Royal Knight Companion of the Most Noble Order of the Garter; Extra Knight of the Most Ancient and Most Noble Order of the Thistle; Grand Master and Dame Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order; Dame Grand Cross of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of Saint John of Jerusalem; Member of the Royal Family Order of Charles III [3]
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 ]
It was not until the beginning of the House of Tudor that the Red Dragon became a royal badge of the kings of England. Henry Tudor (later King Henry VII) displayed the Dragon on his battle standard. [19] The red dragon became an official royal badge of the sovereign (representing Wales) according to a warrant issued in 1801.