Hertug af Gloucester

Coat of Arms of Richard, Duke of Gloucester.svg

Hertug af Gloucester er en engelsk (senere britisk) titel, der blev oprettet i 1385. Ti medlemmer af kongeslægten har benyttet titlen. Det er dog kun udnævnt otte officielle hertuger af Gloucester. Titlen er knyttet til Gloucester i det sydvestlige England.


Hertuger af Gloucester

Engelske hertuger af Gloucester

  • 1385-1377: Thomas af Woodstock, 1. hertug af Gloucester, søn af Edvard 3. af England, titlen gik ikke i arv til hans søn Humphrey, 2. jarl af Buckingham (død 1399).
  • 1414-1447: Humphrey af Lancaster, hertug af Gloucester, søn af Henrik 4. af England.
  • 1461-1485: Richard 3. af England, hertug af Gloucester, konge 1483-1485.
  • 1659-1660: Henry Stuart, hertug af Gloucester, søn af Karl 1. af England.


Titulære hertuger af Gloucester


Hertuger af Gloucester og Edinburgh

Huset Hannover

  • 1764-1805: Prins Vilhelm Henrik, hertug af Gloucester og Edinburgh, tredje søn af Frederik Ludvig af Wales (hertug af Gloucester og Edinburgh), yngre bror til kong Georg 3.
  • 1805-1834: Prins Vilhelm Frederik, hertug af Gloucester og Edinburgh, søn af Vilhelm Henrik, hertug af Gloucester og Edinburgh.

Hertuger af Gloucester

Huset Windsor

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Coat of Arms of Richard, Duke of Gloucester.svg
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Coat of Arms of HRH Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester. (born 1944) second son of Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (third son of King George V) and Alice Montagu Douglas Scott. The coat of arms was granted in 1962.
“ Quarterly, 1st and 4th Gules three lions passant guardant in pale Or armed and langued Azure (for England), 2nd quarter Or a lion rampant within a double tressure flory-counter-flory Gules (for Scotland), 3rd quarter Azure a harp Or stringed Argent (for Ireland), with over all a label of five points Argent, the centre and two outer points charged with a cross Gules, and the inner points with a lion passant guardant also of Gules, the escutcheon ensigned by a coronet of a grandchild of the Sovereign, the whole surrounded by the Garter, for a crest on a coronet of his rank, thereon a lion statant guardant Or crowned of the same coronet charged with a label as in the arms, for supporters, dexter a lion rampant guardant Or crowned by the same coronet, sinister a unicorn Argent armed, crined and unguled Proper, gorged with the same coronet, attached thereto a chain affixed thereto passing between the forelegs and reflexed over the back also Or, both charged on the shoulder with a label as in the arms. ”