By Katie Stevenson
The officials of hands (kings of fingers, heralds and pursuivants) have frequently been neglected through students of past due medieval elite society. but as officials of the crown, ducal courts or noble households, they performed very important components in a couple of components. They have been an important to international and family family, and chivalric tradition; and, in fact, they have been to turn into the powerbrokers of heraldic symbols and family tree. notwithstanding, regardless of the excessive degrees at which they operated, their roles in those components stay principally unexplored, with scholarship tending to target the technology of heraldry instead of the heralds themselves. This assortment goals to treatment that overlook. The contributions hide more than a few ecu areas (particularly Florence, Scandinavia, Poland, the German Empire, the Burgundian Low international locations, Brittany, Scotland and England) and speak about the varied roles and stories of heralds within the overdue center a long time.
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41 The city had surrendered to the English in January 1419 after a siege of twenty-four weeks, as compared with less than three weeks at Caen in 1417. The meeting was significant for two reasons. It is the first recorded chapter of the English royal officers of arms and was very probably the first time they had formally met together to discuss their office. And secondly, again for the first time in England, it drew up constitutions and ordinances for the good government of, and admission into, the office of arms.
75 See note 6. Present at the chapter, which met on 25 December and 5 January, were Garter, Clarenceux and Ireland Kings of Arms, and Leopard, Clarence, Exeter and Mowbray Heralds. The chapter’s resolutions (items 7 and 10 are those which seem to relate to private heralds) survive in the College of Arms in London, and are printed in London, Bruges, appendix 12, pp. 98–107 (and see p. 16 for comment). See also Wagner, Heralds and Heraldry, p. 64 n. 1; Wagner, Heralds of England, pp. 68–9; Wagner and London, ‘Heralds of the Nobility’, pp.
37 By the reign of Henry VII, the establishment of the office of arms as an official registry of gentility was well developed. Listings of ‘gentlemen of the shire’ existed in the reign of Edward IV (1461–70, 1471–83: a king who was credited with an elephantine memory of the lowest gentlemen throughout his kingdom), and Henry VII kept a book cataloguing ‘all the lords knights and gentlemen of this realme’. 39 Given that a tension between the crown and lesser landowners over chivalry and status emerged and moved towards resolution in the course of the century, the nature of the king’s engagement with chivalric culture calls for 35 The Agincourt exception has been interpreted variously as a type of ‘battle honour’ (which I think is essentially right), and as a technical simplification that did nothing more than eliminate, for those who had proved before Agincourt their right to bear arms, the need to duplicate this proof.