Armorial bindings; Bookplates, English; Heraldry -- Great Britain
2. Az., semée de Fleur-de-lys or, a label of five points gu.
_Angoulême._
3. Gu., a lion passant guardant or. _Guyenne._
4. Quarterly, first and fourth, per fess indented az. and
or. _Butler._ Second and third arg., a lion rampant sa.,
crowned or. _Rochford._
5. Gu., 3 lions passant guardant or, a label of three points
arg. _Brotherton_, Earl of Norfolk.
6. Chequy, or and az. _Warren_, Earl of Warren and Surrey.
The first three of these coats were granted to Anne Bullen by Henry
VIII., when he created her Marchioness of Pembroke. The paternal coat
of Bullen, "Arg., a chevron gules, between three bulls' heads sa.," is
omitted.
The shield is ensigned with the Royal Crown of England, and supported
by two angels.
[WHITTINGTON. _De octo partibus orationis._ Londini
[1521], and other Sixteenth-Century Tracts.]
Anne Bullen, or Boleyn (born 1507, died 19th May 1536), was the
daughter of Sir Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Wiltshire and Ormonde,
of Hever Castle in Kent. She was maid of honour to Catherine of
Aragon, Queen of Henry VIII., and while acting in this capacity
she attracted the attention of the king, who decided that he
would marry her if he could get rid of Queen Catherine.
Consequently, after many difficulties, a divorce was arranged,
and Henry married Anne Bullen in 1532, and she was crowned
Queen in 1533. Queen Elizabeth was her only child.
In 1536 the Queen was indicted of high treason, and on 19th May
of the same year she was beheaded. Some of the books bearing
Queen Anne Bullen's arms form part of the old Royal library in
the British Museum; the stamp is impressed in blind, without
gold, and with it is often associated one or other of the panel
stamps having the coat-of-arms of Henry VIII.
[Illustration]
ANNE OF DENMARK, QUEEN CONSORT OF JAMES I.
_Arms._--A cross gu., surmounted of another arg. _Frederick II._, King
of Denmark and Norway.
Dexter canton: Or, semé of hearts ppr., 3 lions passant
guardant az., crowned or. _Denmark._
Sinister canton: Gu., a lion rampant, crowned or, holding in
his paws a battle-axe arg. _Norway._
Dexter base: Az., 3 crowns ppr. _Sweden._
Sinister base: Or, 9 hearts, 4, 3, and 2, gu., in chief a lion
passant guardant az. _Gothes._
In base: Gu., a wyvern, wings expanded and tail nowed or. _The
Vandals._
An escutcheon of Pretence, quarterly;
1. Or, 2 lions passant guardant az. _Sleswick._
2. Gu., an inescutcheon having a nail fixed in every point
thereof in triangle, between as many holly leaves, all arg.
_Holstein._
3. Gu., a swan, wings close arg. _Stormer._
4. Az., a chevalier armed at all points, brandishing his
sword, his helmet plumed, upon a courser arg., trapped or.
_Ditzmers._
Over the whole an inescutcheon per pale--
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