Bluemantle Pursuivant

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The heraldic badge of Bluemantle Pursuivant

Bluemantle Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary is a junior officer of arms of the College of Arms in London. The office is reputed to have been created by King Henry V to serve the Order of the Garter, but there is no documentary evidence of this. There is, however, mention of an officer styled Blewmantle going to France in 1448. The first Bluemantle to be mentioned by name is found in a record from around 1484. The badge of office, probably derived from the original blue material of the Order of the Garter, is blazoned as A Blue Mantle lined Ermine cords and tassels Or.

The current Bluemantle Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary is Michael Peter Desmond O'Donoghue, MA (Cambridge).

1 Holders of the office
2 See also
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Holders of the office

Brackets indicate a date or approximate date for which there is evidence that the named person was holder of this office. The reigning monarch is given if the date is not known more precisely.

(Hen V) John Ashwell or Haswell
(Hen V) John Ashwell
(1419) Thomas More
(Hen V) Thomas Collyer
(Hen VI) William Hawkeslowe
(Hen VI) John Horsley
(Hen VI) Richard Stanton
(Hen VI) James Collyer or Collier
(Hen VI) John Ferrant
(Hen VI) Roger Mallett
(Edw IV) Henry French or Franke
(Edw IV) Richard Champneys
(Edw IV) Thomas Hollingsworth
(Edw IV) Roger Bromley
(Edw IV) John Brice
(Edw IV) Thomas French or Franke
(Edw IV?) Rowland Playnford
(1484) Laurence Alford
1503-1507 ...Banalee
1508-1510 Francis Dyes
1510-1522 Ralph Lago
1522-1528 Thomas Bysley
1528-1528 John Hutton
1528-1536 John Narboone
1536-1543 Richard Ratcliffe
1543-1545 William Harvey
1545-1550 Edmund Atkynson
1550-1557 Nicholas Narboone
1557-1559 John Hollingworth
1559-1565 Richard Turpin
1565-1583 Nicholas Dethick
1583-1587 Humphry Hales
1587-1589 James Thomas
1589-1597 Robert Creswell
1597-1611 Mercury Patten
1611-1616 Henry St George
1616-1633 Sampson Lennard
1633-1641 William Ryley
1641-1646 Robert Browne
1646-1660 John Watson
1660-1665 Robert Chaloner
1665-1667 R Hornerbrock
1667?-1668 Thomas Segar
1668-1719 John Gibbon
1719-1737 James Greene
1737-1743 Thomas Browne
1743-1747 John Pine
1747-1752 Ralph Bigland
1752-1761 John Ward
1761-1762 Isaac Heard
1762-1763 Henry Pugolas
1763-1764 Peter Dore
1764-1767 George Browne
1767-1774 George Harrison
1774-1781 Sir Charles Townley
1781-1793 Edmund Lodge, Esq., FSA
1793-1794 George Nayler
1794-1797 John Havers
1797-1819 Francis Martin, Jun
1819-1831 William Woods
1831-1849 George Harrison Rogers-Harrison
1849-1864 Henry Murray Lane
1864-1873 Henry Harrington Molyneux-Seel
1873-1882 Edward Bellasis, Esq.
1882-1889 Charles Harold Athill, Esq., MVO, FSA
1889-1905 Gordon Ambrose de Lisle Lee, Esq., CB, CVO
1906-1919 Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston, KCB, KCVO
1919-1923 Hon. Philip Cary, FSA
1923-1923 Edmund Clarence Richard Armstrong, Esq., FSA
1923-1932 Aubrey John Toppin, Esq., CVO, FSA
1933-1947 Richard Preston Graham-Vivian, Esq., MVO, MC
1948-1956 James Arnold Frere, Esq., FSA
1956-1967 John Philip Brooke Brooke-Little, Esq., CVO, FSA
1970-1972 Francis Sedley Andrus, Esq., LVO
1973-1983 Peter Llewllyn Gwynn-Jones, Esq., CVO, FSA
1983-1991 Terence David McCarthy, Esq.
1992-1999 Robert John Baptist Noel, Esq.
2005-Present Michael Peter Desmond O'Donoghue, Esq.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

The College of Arms, Queen Victoria Street : being the sixteenth and final monograph of the London Survey Committee, Walter H. Godfrey, assisted by Sir Anthony Wagner, with a complete list of the officers of arms, prepared by H. Stanford London, (London, 1963)
A History of the College of Arms &c, Rev. Mark Noble, (London, 1804)

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