The coat of arms of Clarenceux King of Arms.
Clarenceux King of Arms is an officer of arms at the College of Arms in London. Clarenceux is the senior of the two provincial kings of arms and his jurisdiction is that part of England south of the River Trent. With a great degree of certainty, the office existed in 1420, and there is a fair degree of probability that there was a Claroncell rex heraldus armorum in 1334. There are also some early references to the southern part of England being termed Surroy, but there is not firm evidence that there was ever a king of arms so called. The title of Clarenceux is supposedly derived from either the Honor (or estates of dominion) of the Clare earls of Gloucester, or from the Dukedom of Clarence (1362). With minor variations, the arms of Clarenceux have, from the late fifteenth century, been blazoned as Argent a Cross on a Chief Gules a Lion passant guardant crowned with an open Crown Or.
The current Clarenceux King of Arms is David Hubert Boothby Chesshyre, LVO, MA (Cambridge), FSA.
Holders of the office
Brackets indicate a date for which there is evidence the named person held this office
Clarenceux King of Arms Thomas Hawley in a 1556 grant of arms
The current Clarenceux King of Arms, Hubert Chesshyre, in the procession to the annual service of the Order of the Garter
See also
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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