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A catalogve and succession of the kings, princes, dukes, marquesses, earles, and viscounts of this realme of England, since the Norman conquest, to this present yeere 1622. Together with their armes, wiues, and children; the times of their deaths and burials, with many of their memorable actions

Brooke, Ralph, 1553-1625 · 1622 · [London, W. Stansby] · 547 pictures

Ralph Brooke's peerage catalogue, printed by William Stansby in London in 1622, lists England's kings and titled families since the Norman Conquest with their arms, marriages, children and death dates, for heralds and genealogists. The 547 woodcuts are small coronet-topped shields carrying lions, fleurs-de-lis, fish, lozenges and chevrons, usable as compact emblems, quartered-field patterns and repeatable charge motifs.

Nobility · Heraldry

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