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Arms of Queen Elizabeth Woodville. The arms of her husband King Edward IV impaling her own, grand quarterly of 6. Text from: David Broomfield BA (Hons), The Heraldry of Queens’ College, Cambridge [1]:

Elizabeth used a coat of arms of six quarters that of her father being relegated to the most junior position. Instead her noble and quasi-royal connections on her mother’s side were given prominence.

• 1:LUXEMBURG: Argent, a lion rampant double queued gules ducally crowned or (Limburg). Jacquetta’s father was a descendant of the Counts and Dukes of Limburg whose arms these are. The cadet branch of Luxemburg placed the red lion on a field of silver and blue bars. With the extinction of the senior line Count Peter’s branch assumed the original Limburg arms. At Queens’ College the lion is sometimes shown with only one tail and sometimes without the crown.
• 2: BAUX: Quarterly of 4:
  • 1&4: Gules, a star of eight points argent (should be a star of sixteen points ?)
  • 2&3: Azure semy de lis. Jacquetta’s mother was Margaret daughter of Francis of Baux Duke of Andria. The star is usually shown with straight arms, Queens’ sometimes shows it as an estoile (with wavy arms).
• 3: LUSIGNAN/CYPRUS: Barry of eight argent and azure, a lion rampant gules. The claim to the Kingdom of Cyprus is the most tenuous of all the Woodville quarterings. With the extinction of the legitimate line of the Kings of Cyprus the Republic of Venice had a plan to purchase the claims of Charlotte de Lusignan, Queen of Cyprus (1444-1487) (the eldest and only surviving daughter of King John II of Cyprus and Helena Palaiologina) and Catarina Cornaro, former Queens of Cyprus, and cede them to Anthony Woodville 2nd Earl Rivers the brother of Elizabeth. The plan came to nothing when Anthony died. These arms are very similar to those of the Counts of Luxemburg. The key differences being the lion has only one tail and (usually) no crown. The arms of Lusignan were originally Barry argent and gules (de Valence whose arms appear in those of Pembroke was a cadet branch) to this was added a lion rampant. According to Gelre’s Wapenboeck (1334-72) the lion was crowned.
• 4: URSINS / ORSINI: Bendy argent and gules, on a chief argent fimbriated in base or a rose gules barbed and seeded proper. Margaret of Baux (see above) was the daughter of Francis Duke of Andria and Sueva daughter of Nicolo Orsini Count of Nola. The Orsini (Ursins is a corruption of the name) were a powerful Roman family. The arms of Orsini are sometimes shown as gules three bends argent. In addition a green snake sometimes appears on the gold fillet under the rose.
• 5: ST POL: Gules, three pallets vair on a chief or a label of five points azure. Jacquetta’s great grandfather Guy I Count of Ligny married Mahaut de Chatillon daughter and heiress of John Count of St Pol. Guy became Count of St Pol jure uxoris. Marie daughter of Guy IV of Chatillon Count of St Pol d.1317 married Aymer of Valence Earl of Pembroke and founded Pembroke College, Cambridge, she was the aunt of John Count of St Pol. The versions of these arms in Queens’ are many and varied. Guy III of Chatillon was a younger son, his elder brother took the County of Blois whilst he became Count of St Pol, as such he differenced his arms by adding a label. The label is sometimes shown with 3 or 4 “points”.
• 6: WOODVILLE: Argent, a fess and canton conjoined gules. Sir Richard Wydeville (or Woodville) 1385-1441 was the Steward to the Duke of Bedford, Constable of the Tower of London and Captain of Calais. His son Sir Richard 1st Earl Rivers married Jacquetta of Luxemburg and was the father of Elizabeth the co-foundress of Queens’. The family were thought to be of lowly birth, far too lowly for a daughter to espouse a King. For this reason both the 1st Earl’s and Elizabeth’s coats of arms were aggrandised to make them appear nobler if not actually royal

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Arms of Isabella of Angoulême

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Edith of Wessex

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Abbaye de l'Epau - Gisant de Bérangère de Navarre

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Arms of Elizabeth of York

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Arms of Castille (English heraldry)

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Arms of Anne of Bohemia

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Arms of Margaret of France, second wife of King Edward I of England

Arms of Margaret of Anjou.svg
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Arms of Margaret of Anjou. Blason: Parti per pale. Dexter: grand parti per pale, grand dexter: France moderne (for Henry VI as claimant to the throne of France); grand sinister: quarterly 1 and 4 - France moderne, 2 and 3 - England (for Henry VI of England). Sinister: grand parti of six (three over three), i. Barry of eight Argent and Gules (for the Kingdom of Hungary); ii. Azure seme-de-lys Or a label of three points Gules (France ancient a label of three points Gules) (for the Angevin Kingdom of Naples); iii. Argent a cross potent Or cantoned by four crosslets Or (for the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem); iv. Azure seme-de-lys Or a bordure Gules (France ancient a bordure Gules) (for the County of Anjou); v. Azure crusily fitchy two barbels addorsed Or (for the Duchy of Bar) note: the barbels should be addorsed (dorsal fins toward center); vi. Or a bend Gules three alerions Argent (for the Duchy of Lorraine).

Text from: The Heraldry of Queens’ College, Cambridge By David Broomfield BA (Hons)[1]

The curious agglomeration of quarterings in Margaret’s arms can be traced back to the first House of Anjou. Charles Count of Anjou and Maine (d.1285) was the youngest son of Louis VIII King of France. He conquered the Hohenstaufens and made himself King of Naples and Sicily, he also purchased a claim to the, by then fictional, Kingdom of Jerusalem. King Charles’s arms were those of Anjou (Ancient), France differenced by a red label, and Jerusalem. Charles’s son, Charles II King of Naples married Mary daughter of Stephen V and sister of Ladislaus IV Kings of Hungary. Their eldest son, Charles “Martel”, founded his own line of Kings of Hungary that died out in 1382. Charles and Mary’s daughter Margaret married Charles Count of Valois the son of Philip III King of France. Charles of Naples granted to Charles of Valois the Counties of Anjou and Maine. When Joanna Queen of Naples died she bequeathed the kingdom of Naples to Louis Duke of Anjou. Louis was the great grandson of Margaret of Anjou and Charles of Valois. This the second House of Anjou used the arms of France differenced by a red border, giving us Anjou (Modern). Rene, grandson of Louis I, was Duke of Anjou and Titular King of Naples and Jerusalem and by virtue of his marriage to Isabel of Lorraine he was also Duke of Lorraine and Bar. Queen Margaret was Rene’s daughter. Her arms can be delineated thus: HUNGARY: Barry of eight gules and argent. Though contrary to English heraldry this is how the arms of Hungary were and are shown, the four white bars symbolising the rivers of Hungary. Margaret was descended from Mary sister and heiress of Ladislaus the last King of Hungary of the House of Arpad. Margaret’s father Rene of Anjou, Kings of Naples, always used Barry of eight argent and gules as can be seen from many sources. However, I doubt he ever visited Hungary and his connection with that country was remote but his daughter no doubt took her lead from him when it came to the display of her personal heraldry and passed this on to her College. ANJOU (ANCIENT): Azure semy of fleur de lis or a label of three points gules. These were the arms of the first House of Anjou and borne by Charles d.1285, Count of Anjou, conqueror of Naples and claimant to the throne of Jerusalem. Unfortunately in the painting of the arms in the grant the label is wrongly shown as silver a mistake much repeated about the College. These arms became synonymous with the kingdom of Naples. JERUSALEM: Argent a cross potent between four crosses humetty or. The unique nature of Jerusalem was signified by breaking the cardinal rule of heraldry by placing one metal (gold) on another metal (silver). The cross potent (having flat bars at the ends of the arms) was said to symbolise the letters H and I from “Hierusalem”. Again Cooke’s grant depicts the small crosses between the arms as “potent” while not technically wrong and indeed depicted this way in some Medieval books of arms small plain crosses fit the space better. ANJOU (MODERN): Azure semy of fleur de lis or a border gules. The arms as borne by the second House of Anjou begun by Charles of Valois, Count of Anjou the progenitor of the House of Valois and Naples. BAR: Azure semy of cross crosslets fitchy two barbels hauriant and addorsed. The barbels are clearly punning (or canting) references to Bar. The fish have their heads pointing upwards (as opposed to urinant when their heads are at the bottom of the shield) and addorsed means back to back. The crosses should have a point for the lower arms, some versions at Queens’ have it the same as the other arms. The other usual error is to have a specific number of crosses. “Semy” means that the field is spread with charges and they overlap the edges. Cooke also blazons them as “luces”. In the quarterings used by Rene of Anjou the barbels always grip a cross crosslet fitchy in their mouths. This is well attested in contemporary versions of his arms. In Queens’ they appear thus only once, in the stained glass shield of Queen Margaret’s arms in the Old Senior Combination Room making it likely that these date from the 15th Century. LORRAINE: Or on a bend gules three alerions displayed argent. Alerions are eagles that have neither beaks nor claws. They are best shown with a hole in the middle of the head. It was said that Godfrey of Bouillon (or another) fired an arrow that brought down three birds simultaneously. It is also said that “Alerion” is an anagram of “Lor(r)aine”. In mythology it was said that only two birds existed at any time, they laid a pair of eggs every sixty years and they drowned themselves after hatching. To add to the confusion Cooke describes them as “eagles” and they appear as eagles many times in the

College.

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Isabella of France, wife of Edward II of England.

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Coat of Arms of Queen Catherine Howard: Royal arms of King Henry VIII impaling quarterly of 4 (blazons, with amendments, from Katherine Howard: The Tragic Story of Henry VIII's Fifth Queen By Josephine Wilkinson[1]):

• 1: Azure, three fleurs-de-lis in pale or between two flaunches ermine (each charged with a rose gules) (first marriage augmentation created for Queen Catherine Howard)
• 2: Royal arms of King Edward I, a label of three points argent for difference (Brotherton) (Arms of Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk)
• 3: Gules, on a bend between six cross-crosslets fitchy argent an escutcheon or charged with a demi-lion rampant pierced through the mouth by an arrow within a double tressure flory counterflory of the first (Howard) (her paternal arms, with Flodden Augmentation granted by King Henry VIII after the Battle of Flodden (1513) to her grandfather Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk)
• 4: Azure, two lions passant guardant in pale within a bordure of four demi-fleur-de-lis issuing from the flanks or (second marriage augmentation created for Queen Catherine Howard) ('Armorial Index', in An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the City of Cambridge (London, 1959), pp. 397-414. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/rchme/cambs/pp397-414) blazoned alternatively: Azure, two lions passant guardant in pale within a bordure of four fleurs-de-lis dimidiated or (blazon per Josephine Wilkinson) Azure, two lions passant guardant in pale the verge of the escutcheon charged with four half fleurs-de-lys or (source: https://aroyalheraldry.weebly.com/blog/tudor-dynasty-the-six-wives-of-king-henry-viii). The lions frequently blazoned simply as "Two lions of England".

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Matilda of Boulogne, consort of King Stephen of England.

Arms of Anne of Cleves.svg
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Coat of Arms of Queen Anne of Cleves

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Catherine of Aragon

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Elizabeth Woodville (1437-1492), Queen Consort of Edward IV of England.
The portrait of her shown here is probably a multiple-generation copy of one taken from life. The College has several versions in differing states. She is shown posed in the high fashion of the day, with strained back hair and a partial veil.

Arms of Jane Seymour.svg
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Coat of Arms of Queen Jane Seymour. Arms of King Henry VIII impaling quarterly of six:

• 1: Special grant to Jane Seymour and to her brother Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset;
• 2: Gules, two wings conjoined in lure or (Seymour);
• 3: Vair (Beauchamp of Hatch);
• 4: Argent, three demi-lions gules (Esturmy of Wulfhall);
• 5: Per bend gules and argent, three roses bendwise counterchanged (Macwilliam);
• 6 (Barry of six argent and azure) Argent, on a bend gules three leopard's faces or (Coker).
  

See 16th century escutcheon flanking the doors of the Chapel Royal at Hampton Court Palace containing the heraldic achievements of King Henry VIII and Queen Jane Seymour.[1]

Arms of Joan of Navarre.svg
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Arms of Joan of Navarre (arms of King Henry IV of England impaling Navarre)

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Arms of Philippa of Hainault (1340-1369)

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Full Ornamented Coat of arms of Philip II of Spain, consort of Mary I of England, from 1556 to 1558.

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Margaret of Anjou, wife of King Henry VI

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Lord Guildford Dudley, husband of Lady Jane Grey. Detail of 19th century painting; part of a series. Compare File:Lady Frances Brandon.jpg.

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Coat of Arms of Queen Catherine of Braganza, Consort of King Charles II of England

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Anne of Bohemia

Margaret of France (1197).jpg
Margareta, kraljica Engleske, Ugarske i Hrvatske, sa svojim bratom Filipom II.

Arms of Anne Neville.svg
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Arms of Anne Neville

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Eleanor of Provence

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Katherine of Valois

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Marriage of Henry V of England to Catherine of Valois British Library, Miniature of the marriage of Henry V and Catharine de Valois: Jean Chartier, Chronique de Charles VII, France (Calais), 1490, and England, before 1494, Royal 20 E. vi, f. 9v.

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Coat of Arms of Prince George of Denmark and Norway, Duke of Cumberland Consort to Queen Anne of Great Britain

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Tomb of Joan

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Arms of Anne Boleyn.svg
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Coat of Arms of Queen Anne Boleyn. Her sinister half shows six quarters, the first three relate to her titles, actual or in pretence, which she bore in right of her husband. Only the last three relate to her own ancestry. Royal arms of King Henry VIII impaling:

Quarterly of 6:

• 1: Duchess of Lancaster: Royal arms of King Henry III with a label of three points of France for difference. As the wife of King Henry VIII, Duke of Lancaster, Anne Boleyn was Duchess of Lancaster. Blasoned otherwise: Plantagenet with a label of three points azure on each point three fleur-de-lis or (Duchy of Lancaster). Arms first borne by w:Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster (1245-1296), the second surviving son of King Henry III (1216-1272). Many commentators have been puzzled by these first three quarters, assuming that they related to Anne's ancestry, not her titles (theoretical or otherwise) on marriage. For example: "The Duchy of Lancaster as one of her quarters alluded to perhaps her descent from Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, son of Prince Edmund, 1st Earl of Lancaster, son of Henry III of England (the 3rd Earl was a 6x great-grandfather via the Howards and her great-great-grandmother, Elizabeth Beauchamp, Countess of Ormonde)". (quotation from: tudorqueen6.com)
• 2: Countess of Anjou: France ancient, a label of three points gules ("Anjou (ancien)" Anjou-Naples / Angoulême). King Henry VIII considered himself Count of Anjou, by right, although that county had been deprived of the English kings by force in 1453. King Henry VIII also considered himself King of France, by right (King Edward II married the heiress Isabella of France and his son King Edward III duly claimed the throne of France and quartered the royal arms of France, which practice continued until the Hanoverian monarchs), although that kingdom had likewise been deprived of the English kings by force. He described himself as "King of France" on his coins and displayed the royal arms of France in a superior position to the arms of England (Plantagenet, Counts of Anjou). Likewise he still considered himself Count of Anjou, by descent from King Henry II, Count of Anjou. The County of Anjou had been wrested from the English crown in 1453 by the King of France. That did not affect Henry's claim by right to Anjou. The way to express the claim by right heraldically was to assume to himself the arms of the current de facto holder, just as as the King of France by right he had kept up with the arms of France modern adopted by later French kings. These arms were first borne by en:Charles I of Anjou (1226/7-1285), Count of Anjou, King of Naples (youngest son of King w:Louis VIII of France), and thus came to symbolise "the County of Anjou". Many commentators have been puzzled by these first three quarters, assuming that they related to Anne's ancestry, not her titles (theoretical or otherwise) on marriage. For example: "The Anjou-Naples doesn’t even apply to her ancestry .... at the very least, Anne only descended from Margaret of France (7x great-grandmother), daughter of Philip III of the House of Capet!" (quotation from: tudorqueen6.com)

• 3: Duchess of Aquitaine: Gules, a lion passant guardant or (Duke of Aquitaine / Guyenne / Guienne (the name "Guyenne" comes from Aguyenne, a popular transformation of the Roman Province of Aquitania)). King Henry VIII considered himself Duke of Aquitaine, by right, although that duchy had been deprived of the Kings of England by force in 1453. The title Duke of Aquitaine / Duke of Guyenne/Guienne was held by the kings of England from Henry II (1154-1189) (who married Eleanor of Aquitaine, the daughter and heiress of William X, Duke of Aquitaine / Duke of Guyenne) to Henry VI (1422-1461), when the territory was conquered in 1453 by the King of France. In 1469 King Louis XI of France recreated the duché d'Aquitaine (or de Guyenne) for his younger brother w:Charles of Valois, Duke of Berry (d.1472) (Charles de France) who quatertered the Royal arms of France, differenced by a bordure engrailed gules, with one of the lions of Plantagenet, the former dukes from before the heraldic era; thus no other heraldry existed to symbolise Aquitaine other than the arms of Plantagenet. Many commentators have been puzzled by these first three quarters, assuming that they related to Anne's ancestry, not her titles (theoretical or otherwise) on marriage. For example: "Anne Boleyn was descended via her Howard mother from w:Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, the 5th son of King Edward I of England, Duke of Aquitaine".
• 4: Quarterly of 4:

• 1&4: Or, a chief indented azure (Augmented paternal arms of Boleyn (arms of Butler, Earl of Ormonde and Earl of Wiltshire). Anne was the daughter of Thomas Boleyn, who following her royal marriage was created Earl of Wiltshire, Earl of Ormond and Viscount Rochford, all references to his descent from the Butler family, Earls of Ormonde and Earls of Wiltshire. He also was permitted to adopt the arms of Butler (Or, a chief indented azure) as his own, in lieu of his canting paternal arms of Boleyn (Argent, a chevron gules between three bull's heads and necks couped sable armed or). These augmented arms of Butler survive on his Garter stall plate in St George's Chapel, Windsor.
• 2&3: Argent, a lion rampant sable crowned gules (de Rochford of Rochford Hall, Essex, an heiress of Butler) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.864). Text from: www.rochfordtown.com[1]

"In 1247 Sir Guy de Rochford of Rochford obtained licence from King Henry III to hold a market and fair. In 1340 Edward III granted the Manor of Rochford to William de Bohun, Earl of Northampton. In 1381, the arranged marriage took place at Rochford Hall of Mary de Bohun, aged 11, and Henry Bolingbroke (later King Henry IV), aged 14. Their son was King Henry V. The old stone manor house was replaced by the grander project that would eventually become a magnificent Tudor mansion, with turrets, gables and twisted brick chimneys. James Butler, 5th Earl of Ormond, inherited Rochford Hall from his ‘de Bohun’ grandmother around 1450 and later added Viceroy of Ireland and Earl of Wiltshire to his titles. He supported Henry VI and the Lancastrian faction during the ‘Wars of the Roses’ and became Earl of Wiltshire. He fought in a number of battles but was executed following the Yorkist victory at Towton in 1461. As a result, his family lost possession of Rochford Hall when the Manor was given to the Duchess of Exeter, the Woodvilles, and then to the Greys. Rochford Hall was returned to Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond (brother of the 5th Earl). The Butler coat of arms appears on the fine brick tower of the church. When Thomas Boteler died in 1515, his 72 Manor Estates were divided equally between his two daughters, Anne Butler and Margaret Butler, with Rochford being inherited by Margaret Butler, the wife of Sir William Boleyn".

• 5: Royal arms of King Edward I (Plantagenet), a label of three points argent for difference (Arms of w:Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk (5th son of King Edward I), an ancestor of the Howard Dukes of Norfolk) (Anne Boleyn's mother was Lady Elizabeth Howard, the eldest daughter of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk by his first wife Elizabeth Tilney). As her mother was not an heraldic heiress (she had brothers), Anne would not be entitled under the normal rules of heraldry to quarter the arms of Howard or any Howard quarterings, including Brotherton. Clearly this quartering was sanctioned to appear, if not insisted upon, by King Henry VIII. However as "the king is the fount of all honour", he can grant whatever arms he wishes. It is unthinkable that the idea to display this royal quarterings (and the first three) was the idea of Anne herself. Her nephew Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (died 1547) was later executed by Henry VIII for quartering the royal arms (undifferenced) and the attributed arms of King Edward the Confessor, for which he had insufficient qualification.
• 6: Chequy or and azure (de Warenne, Earl of Surrey (an ancestor of the Howard Dukes of Norfolk). As her mother was not an heraldic heiress (she had brothers), Anne would not be entitled under the normal rules of heraldry to quarter the arms of Howard or any Howard quarterings, including de Warenne. Clearly this quartering was sanctioned to appear, if not insisted upon, by King Henry VIII.

Omission of Boleyn / Bullen paternal arms

Her canting paternal arms of Boleyn / Bullen (Argent, a chevron gules between three bull's heads and necks couped sable armed or) (Boleyn "ancient") were omitted altogether, as they had been superseded by the arms of "Boleyn modern" (Or, a chief indented azure), namely the arms of Butler, Earl of Wiltshire, as an augmentation of honour, granted by Henry VIII to her father Thomas Boleyn, who following her royal marriage was created Earl of Wiltshire, Earl of Ormond and Viscount Rochford. The absence of the paternal arms of Boleyn / Bullen (Boleyn "ancient") has been mis-understood by many commentators. For example it has been suggested that the Boleyn arms were shameful to Anne and the king due to the mercantile origins of the Boleyn family, which although very wealthy, was gentry not nobility. "Anne was the only one of Henry’s English wives who avoided her paternal coat of arms. Katherine Parr, Katherine Howard, and Jane Seymour all displayed their paternal coats of arms because that was the rule which Anne contradicted". (from Ecclesiastical biography, ed. Christopher Wordsworth, p. 590.). "To Katherine Howard, Jane Seymour, and Katherine Parr, Henry also granted augmentations, but in their several achievements the (paternal) coats of Howard, Seymour, and Parr formed the second quarter. Anne Bullen’s is the exception". (Zupanec). (quoted in Source: tudorqueen6.com). Anne was indeed displaying her paternal arms, but augmented paternal arms.

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Portrait miniature of a lady, perhaps Katherine Howard, by Hans Holbein the Younger.

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Philippa of Hainault

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Arms of Catherine of Aragon.svg
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Coat of Arms of Queen Catherine of Aragon

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Arms of Isabella of Valois

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en:Marguerite of France (born 1282), second wife and Queen of en:Edward I of England. From [1]

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Isabela Francouzská

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The Encomium Emmae Reginae (1041-2), London, British Library, MS. Add. 33241 -- Queen en:Emma of Normandy receiving the Encomium Emmae from its author, with her sons Harthacanute and Edward the Confessor in the background.

Arms of Catherine of Valois.svg
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Arms of Catherine of Valois

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Arms of Anne of Denmark.svg
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Coat of Arms of Queen Anne of Denmark, Consort of King James I of England and VI of Scotland

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Portrait of Anne Boleyn (c. 1501–1536); second wife of Henry VIII.

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Enamel effigy of Geoffrey Plantagenet, Count of Anjou on his tomb, formerly at Le Mans Cathedral, now in the Museum of Archeology and History in Le Mans.

Eleanor Castile.jpg
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Eleonora Kastilská

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Matilda of Flanders, wife of William I of England. From [1]. Originally from "Queens of England" - 1894.

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The Queen wears black, probably in mourning for her son, Henry Frederick, Fyrste af Wales who died in 1612.

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Anne Neville, a daughter and co-heiress of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick KG (22 November 1428 – 14 April 1471), "Warwick the Kingmaker". She married King Richard III. Arms on her mantle: Royal arms of Richard III impaling Warwick the Kingmaker, quarterly of 7:

• 1:Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick;
• 2:Newburgh, Earl of Warwick;
• 3:Montagu, Earl of Salisbury;
• 4:Monthermer, heiress of Montagu;
• 5:Neville;
• 6:de Clare, Lord of Glamorgan;
• 7: Despencer, Lord of Glamorgan.

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Tombs of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II of England at Fontevraud (detail of Eleaneor's headdress)

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Catherine of Braganza, queen of England

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Arms of Eleanor of Provence

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Coat of Arms of Queen Catherine Parr. Royal arms impaling: Quarterly of six:

• 1st; an Augmentation, Argent, on a Pile Gules, between six Roses Gules, three other Roses Argent,
• 2nd; Argent, two bars Azure, within a bordure engrailed Sable (Parr),
• 3rd; Or, three water-bougets Sable (Ross of Kendal),
• 4th; Vairy, a fesse Gules (Marmion),
• 5th; Azure, three chevrons interlaced in base, a chief Or (FitzHugh),
• 6th; Vert, three harts at gaze Or (Green)

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Coat of Arms of Queen Mary of Modena, Consort of King James II of England

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Matilda of Scotland

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Arms of Isabella of France

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Isabella of Angoulême, tomb in the church of Fontevraud Abbey (France)

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Coat of Arms of Queen Henrietta Maria of France, Consort of King Charles I of England