Bluemantle Pursuivant

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox heraldry Bluemantle Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary is a junior officer of arms of the College of Arms in London. The office is reputed to have been created by Henry V to serve the Order of the Garter, but there is no documentary evidence of this. There is, however, mention of an officer styled Blewmantle going to France in 1448. The first Bluemantle to be mentioned by name is found in a record from around 1484. The badge of office, probably derived from the original blue material of the Order of the Garter, is blazoned as A Blue Mantle lined Ermine cords and tassels Or.

The current Bluemantle Pursuivant of Arms is James Peill, Template:Post-nominals.

Holders of the office

Arms	Name	Date of appointment	Ref
File:Arms of John Ashwell or Haswell.svg	John Ashwell or Haswell	(Henry V)
File:Arms of John Ashwell.svg	John Ashwell	(Henry V)
File:Arms of Thomas More (herald).svg	Thomas More	(1419)
	Thomas Collyer	(Henry V)
File:Arms of William Hawkeslowe.svg	William Hawkeslowe	(Henry VI)
File:Arms of William Horsley.svg	John Horsley	(Henry VI)
File:Arms of Richard Stanton.svg	Richard Stanton	(Henry VI)
	James Collyer or Collier	(Henry VI)
File:Arms of John Ferrant.svg	John Ferrant	(Henry VI)
File:Arms of Roger Mallett.svg	Roger Mallett	(Henry VI)
File:Arms of Henry French or Franke.svg	Henry French or Franke	(Edward IV)
File:Arms of Richard Champneys.svg	Richard Champneys	(Edward IV)
File:Arms of Thomas Hollingworth.svg	Thomas Hollingsworth	(Edward IV)
File:Arms of Roger Bromley.svg	Roger Bromley	(Edward IV)
	John Brice	(Edward IV)
File:Arms of Henry French or Franke.svg	Thomas French or Franke	(Edward IV)
	Rowland Playnford	(Edward IV)
File:Arms of Laurence Alford.svg	Laurence Alford	(1484)
	...Banalee	1503–1507
	Francis Dyes	1508–1510
	Ralph Lago	1510–1522
File:Arms of Thomas Bysley.svg	Thomas Bysley	1522–1528
	John Hutton	1528–1528
File:Arms of Nicholas Narbon.svg	John Narboone	1528–1536
File:Arms of Richard Ratcliffe.svg	Richard Ratcliffe	1536–1543
File:Arms of William Harvey, Clarenceux King of Arms.svg	William Harvey	1543–1545
File:Arms of Edmund Atkinson.svg	Edmund Atkynson	1545–1550
File:Arms of Nicholas Narbon.svg	Nicholas Narboone	1550–1557
File:Arms of Thomas Hollingworth.svg	John Hollingworth	1557–1559
File:Arms of Richard Turpin.svg	Richard Turpin	1559–1565
File:Arms of Sir Gilbert Dethick.svg	Nicholas Dethick	1565–1583
File:Arms of Humphrey Hales.svg	Humphry Hales	1583–1587
File:Arms of Francis Jones.svg	James Thomas	1587–1589
File:Arms of Robert Treswell.svg	Robert Treswell	1589–1597
File:Arms of Mercury Patten.svg	Mercury Patten	1597–1611
File:Arms of Sir Henry St George.svg	Henry St George	1611–1616
File:Arms of Sampson Lennard.svg	Sampson Lennard	1616–1633
File:Arms of William Ryley.svg	William Ryley	1633–1641
File:Arms of Robert Browne.svg	Robert Browne	1641–1646
File:Arms of John Watson.svg	John Watson	1646–1660
File:Arms of Robert Chaloner.svg	Robert Chaloner	1660–1665
File:Arms of Richard Hornebrooke.svg	Richard Hornebrooke	1665–1667
File:Arms of William Segar.svg	Thomas Segar	1669–1670
File:Arms of John Gibbon.svg	John Gibbon	1670–1719
	James Greene	1719–1737
File:Arms of Thomas Browne.svg	Thomas Browne	1737–1743
	John Pine	1743–1747
File:Arms of Ralph Bigland.svg	Ralph Bigland	1747–1752
	John Ward	1752–1761
File:Arms of Sir Isaac Heard.svg	Isaac Heard	1761–1762
File:Arms of Henry Pujolas.svg	Henry Pujolas	1762–1763
File:Arms of Peter Dore.svg	Peter Dore	1763–1764
File:Arms of Thomas Browne.svg	George Browne	1764–1767
File:Arms of George Harrison (b. 1740).svg	George Harrison	1767–1774
File:Arms of Sir Charles Townley.svg	Sir Charles Townley	1774–1781
File:Arms of Sir Edmund Lodge.svg	Edmund Lodge	1781–1793
File:Arms of Sir George Nayler.svg	George Nayler	1793–1794
	John Havers	1794–1797
File:Arms of Francis Martin.svg	Francis Martin, Jr.	1797–1819
File:Arms of Sir Albert Woods.svg	William Woods	1819–1831
File:Arms of George Harrison Rogers-Harrison.svg	George Harrison Rogers-Harrison	1831–1849
File:Arms of Henry Murray Lane.svg	Henry Murray Lane	1849–1864
File:Arms of Henry Harrington Molyneux-Seel.svg	Henry Harrington Molyneux-Seel	1864–1873
File:Arms of Edward Bellasis.svg	Edward Bellasis	1873–1882
File:Arms of Charles Athill.svg	Charles Harold Athill	1882–1889
File:Arms of Gordon Lee.svg	Gordon Ambrose de Lisle Lee	1889–1905
File:Arms of Sir Gerald Wollaston.svg	Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston	1906–1919
File:Arms of Philip Plantagenet Cary.svg	Philip Plantagenet Cary	1919–1923
	Edmund Clarence Richard Armstrong	1923–1923
File:Arms of Aubrey Toppin.svg	Aubrey John Toppin	1923–1932
File:Arms of Richard Graham-Vivian.svg	Richard Preston Graham-Vivian	1933–1947
File:Arms of James Arnold Frere.svg	James Arnold Frere	1948–1956
File:Arms of John Brooke-Little.svg	John Philip Brook Brooke-Little	1956–1967
File:Arms of Francis Sedley Andrus.svg	Francis Sedley Andrus	1970–1972
File:Arms of Sir Peter Gwynn-Jones.svg	Sir Peter Llewellyn Gwynn-Jones	1973–1983
File:Arms of Terence David McCarthy.svg	Terence David McCarthy	1983–1991
File:Arms of Noel, Earl of Gainsborough.svg	Robert John Baptist Noel	1992–1999
	Michael Peter Desmond O'Donoghue	2005–2012
	Mark John Rosborough Scott	2019–2024
	James van Someren Peill	2024–present

See also

• Heraldry
• Officer of Arms

References

Citations

Bibliography

• The College of Arms, Queen Victoria Street : being the sixteenth and final monograph of the London Survey Committee, Walter H. Godfrey, assisted by Sir Anthony Wagner, with a complete list of the officers of arms, prepared by H. Stanford London, (London, 1963)
• A History of the College of Arms &c, Mark Noble, (London, 1804)

External links

• The College of Arms
• CUHGS Officer of Arms Index