Does anyone know what the livery for Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury(Kingmaker's father) used in the 1450-60s?
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Earl of Salisbury in 1460
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Re: Earl of Salisbury in 1460
http://www.red1st.com/axholme/getperson ... ee=Axholme
The above site has this:
◦From St. John Hope's "Garter Stall Plates", plate LV, pub 1901:
Arms: Quarterly:
1 & 4 Silver three fusils in fess gules (Montacute quartering Gold an eagle vert (Monthermer)
2 & 3: Gules a saltire silver and a label gobony of silver and sable (Neville).
Crest: A griffin with wings displayed sitting in a crown gold.
No mention of livery yet....I'll keep looking.
The above site has this:
◦From St. John Hope's "Garter Stall Plates", plate LV, pub 1901:
Arms: Quarterly:
1 & 4 Silver three fusils in fess gules (Montacute quartering Gold an eagle vert (Monthermer)
2 & 3: Gules a saltire silver and a label gobony of silver and sable (Neville).
Crest: A griffin with wings displayed sitting in a crown gold.
No mention of livery yet....I'll keep looking.
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Re: Earl of Salisbury in 1460
My recollection is Red and black witha gold wyvern - but will try to confirm
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Re: Earl of Salisbury in 1460
indeed red over black, gold griffin, motto Ne Vile Velis
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Re: Earl of Salisbury in 1460
Red & Black, a griffin sejant (Standards & Livery Badges of the Wars of the Roses, Pat Mc Gill)
Red & Black, badges variously as follows (Heraldic Badges of England and Wales, Michael Powell Siddons, 2009 - Vol 2.1 - Ghost - I have Vol 2 of your Xmas present on Loan from the British Library, I couldn't afford the second mortgage necessary to buy it. )
- an eagle, colour not stated, Salisbury is referred to as the eagle in a political ballad of 1450.
- an eagle wings displayed, vert (green)
- a griffin sejant (sitting), or (gold)
A Gold eagle or Gold Griffin would follows heraldic rules (i.e an metal on a ticture,(colour)) better, though these were not invariably followed at this tine
Red & Black, badges variously as follows (Heraldic Badges of England and Wales, Michael Powell Siddons, 2009 - Vol 2.1 - Ghost - I have Vol 2 of your Xmas present on Loan from the British Library, I couldn't afford the second mortgage necessary to buy it. )
- an eagle, colour not stated, Salisbury is referred to as the eagle in a political ballad of 1450.
- an eagle wings displayed, vert (green)
- a griffin sejant (sitting), or (gold)
A Gold eagle or Gold Griffin would follows heraldic rules (i.e an metal on a ticture,(colour)) better, though these were not invariably followed at this tine
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