Nichols, John Gough, 1806-1873 · London : John Bowyer Nichols and Sons · leaf 63
he ancient family of Le Despenser, by which a similar crest was borne. ThreeScottish instances of the ducal coronet occur in the year 1371. * * * Formerly the ducal coronet appertained only to military leaders, to whom it was * This assumed descent is not proven. It was directly contradicted by Sir… … Richard Earl of Arundel 1330—1375.(Arms of Arundel and Warren.) adjudged as a symbol of victory, or to knights who had taken part in the more ancienttournaments, and many old families still bear their crests in conjunction with a ducalcoronet, to commemorate the fact of some heroic ancestor having…
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