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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 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 ...
Mulberry Academy Woodside is a mixed 11–16 academy located in the Wood Green area of the London Borough of Haringey, England.With a student roll of 1200, the school has been judged by Ofsted as outstanding for two consecutive inspections (2011 and 2014).
This category is for people who are or were students in The Juilliard School's Pre-collegiate Division. This category should not be made a sub-category of Category:Juilliard School alumni since that category is a college/university level alumni category, and this division has always been clearly and unequivocably pre-collegiate.
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Motto: Non scholae, sed vitae discimus (We Learn Not For School But For Life) Royal Grammar School Worcester, granted 24 July 1961 Escutcheon: Gules, an ancient crown Or, on a chief argent three pears sable Crest: On a wreath of the colours, In front of the battlements of a castle triple towered argent, masoned sable, a Roman lamp Or, inflamed ...
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 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 ...