Origin and history of the American flag and of the naval and yacht-club signals, seals and arms, and principal national songs of the United States, with a chronicle of the symbols, standards, banners, and flags of ancient and modern nations (1917)
Preble, George Henry, 1816-1885, Asnis, Charles Edward · Philadelphia, N. L. Brown · leaf 166
, Duke of York, assumed the white (derived from the Castle ofClifford), which he transmitted to his descendants, the House of York.Mr. Planche inclines to derive the rose originally from Eleanor ofProvence, queen of Henry IIL Edward IV., 1461-1483, adopted for his badge a white lion and awhite… … standard of Edward the Fourth. sable bull was another of his devices. He also placed the white roseen soleil on his standard in commemoration of his victory at thebattle of Mortimers Cross, 1471, when, before the battle, it is said,the sun appeared to Edward, then Earl of ^larch, like three…
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