Bluemantle Pursuivant
The heraldic badge of Blue Mantle Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary
 
Heraldic traditionGallo-British
JurisdictionEngland, Wales and Northern Ireland
Governing bodyCollege of Arms

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 King 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 is Mark Scott who was appointed 13 June 2019. He took part in the Royal Procession at the 2023 Coronation.[1]


Holders of the office

Arms Name Date of appointment Ref
John Ashwell or Haswell (Henry V)
John Ashwell (Henry V)
Thomas More (1419)
Thomas Collyer (Henry V)
William Hawkeslowe (Henry VI)
John Horsley (Henry VI)
Richard Stanton (Henry VI)
James Collyer or Collier (Henry VI)
John Ferrant (Henry VI)
Roger Mallett (Henry VI)
Henry French or Franke (Edward IV)
Richard Champneys (Edward IV)
Thomas Hollingsworth (Edward IV)
Roger Bromley (Edward IV)
John Brice (Edward IV)
Thomas French or Franke (Edward IV)
Rowland Playnford (Edward IV)
Laurence Alford (1484)
...Banalee 1503–1507
Francis Dyes 1508–1510
Ralph Lago 1510–1522
Thomas Bysley 1522–1528
John Hutton 1528–1528
John Narboone 1528–1536
Richard Ratcliffe 1536–1543
William Harvey 1543–1545
Edmund Atkynson 1545–1550
Nicholas Narboone 1550–1557
John Hollingworth 1557–1559
Richard Turpin 1559–1565
Nicholas Dethick 1565–1583
Humphry Hales 1583–1587
James Thomas 1587–1589
Robert Treswell 1589–1597
Mercury Patten 1597–1611
Henry St George 1611–1616
Sampson Lennard 1616–1633
William Ryley 1633–1641
Robert Browne 1641–1646
John Watson 1646–1660
Robert Chaloner 1660–1665
Richard Hornebrooke 1665–1667
Thomas Segar 1669–1670
John Gibbon 1670–1719
James Greene 1719–1737
Thomas Browne 1737–1743
John Pine 1743–1747
Ralph Bigland 1747–1752
John Ward 1752–1761
Isaac Heard 1761–1762
Henry Pujolas 1762–1763
Peter Dore 1763–1764
George Browne 1764–1767
George Harrison 1767–1774
Sir Charles Townley 1774–1781
Edmund Lodge, Esq., FSA 1781–1793
George Nayler 1793–1794
John Havers 1794–1797 [2]
Francis Martin, Jr. 1797–1819
William Woods 1819–1831 [3]
George Harrison Rogers-Harrison 1831–1849 [4]
Henry Murray Lane 1849–1864 [5]
Henry Harrington Molyneux-Seel 1864–1873 [6]
Edward Bellasis, Esq. 1873–1882 [7]
Charles Harold Athill, Esq., MVO, FSA 1882–1889 [8]
Gordon Ambrose de Lisle Lee, Esq., CB, CVO 1889–1905 [9]
Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston, KCB, KCVO 1906–1919 [10]
Hon. Philip Plantagenet Cary, FSA 1919–1923 [11]
Edmund Clarence Richard Armstrong, Esq., FSA 1923–1923 [12]
Aubrey John Toppin, Esq., CVO, FSA 1923–1932 [13]
Richard Preston Graham-Vivian, Esq., MVO, MC 1933–1947 [14]
James Arnold Frere, Esq., FSA 1948–1956 [15]
John Philip Brook Brooke-Little, Esq., CVO, FSA 1956–1967 [16]
Francis Sedley Andrus, Esq., LVO 1970–1972 [17]
Sir Peter Llewellyn Gwynn-Jones, KCVO, FSA 1973–1983 [18]
Terence David McCarthy, Esq. 1983–1991 [19]
Robert John Baptist Noel, Esq. 1992–1999 [20]
Michael Peter Desmond O'Donoghue, Esq. 2005–2012 [21]
Mark John Rosborough Scott, Esq. 2019–present [22]

See also

References

Citations

  1. ↑ "Coronation order of service in full". BBC News. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
  2. ↑ "No. 13653". The London Gazette. 13 May 1794. p. 425.
  3. ↑ "No. 17468". The London Gazette. 13 April 1819. p. 658.
  4. ↑ "No. 4019". The Edinburgh Gazette. 29 November 1831. p. 323.
  5. ↑ "No. 21009". The London Gazette. 14 August 1849. p. 2532.
  6. ↑ "No. 22912". The London Gazette. 15 November 1864. p. 5371.
  7. ↑ "No. 24045". The London Gazette. 16 December 1873. p. 5936.
  8. ↑ "No. 25130". The London Gazette. 25 July 1882. p. 3458.
  9. ↑ "No. 25967". The London Gazette. 23 August 1889. p. 4611.
  10. ↑ "No. 11795". The Edinburgh Gazette. 16 January 1906. p. 70.
  11. ↑ "No. 31243". The London Gazette. 21 March 1919. p. 3753.
  12. ↑ "No. 32803". The London Gazette. 6 March 1923. p. 1817.
  13. ↑ "No. 32849". The London Gazette. 31 July 1923. p. 5239.
  14. ↑ "No. 33925". The London Gazette. 28 March 1933. p. 2115.
  15. ↑ "No. 38221". The London Gazette. 27 February 1948. p. 1492.
  16. ↑ "No. 40932". The London Gazette. 23 November 1956. p. 6634.
  17. ↑ "No. 45066". The London Gazette. 24 March 1970. p. 3415.
  18. ↑ "No. 45947". The London Gazette. 6 April 1973. p. 4481.
  19. ↑ "No. 49291". The London Gazette. 17 March 1983. p. 3737.
  20. ↑ "No. 53094". The London Gazette. 2 November 1992. p. 18353.
  21. ↑ "No. 57539". The London Gazette. 21 January 2005. p. 703.
  22. ↑ "No. 62688". The London Gazette. 20 June 2019. p. 10952.

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)
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