The dragon forms a part of the fictitious arms of King Arthur; and another early British king bore the surname of =Pen-Dragon=, or the 'dragon's head.' The standard of the West Saxon monarchs was a golden dragon in a red banner. In the Bayeux tapestry a dragon on a pole repeatedly occurs near the person of King Harold; and in the instance which is copied in the margin, the words 'HIC HAROLD' are placed over it.[126] It was an early badge of the Princes of Wales, and was also assumed at various periods by our English monarchs. Henry III used it at the battle of Lewes in 1264. "Symoun com to the feld, And put up his banere; The Kyng schewed forth his scheld, His _Dragon_ fulle austere. The Kyng said 'On hie, Symon jeo vous defie!'" _Robert Brunne._ "The order for the creation of this 'austere' beast," says Mr. Blaauw, "is still extant. Edward Fitz-Odo, the king's goldsmith, was commanded, in 1244, to make it 'in the manner of a standard or ensign, of red samit,' to be embroidered with gold, and his tongue to appear as though continually moving, and his eyes of sapphire, or other stones agreeable to him."[127] "Then was ther a Dragon grete and grimme, Full of fyre and also venymme, With a wide throte and tuskes grete."[128] The dragon-standard must have been in high favour with commanders, for in the same war we find it unfurled in the opposite cause by the leader of the baronial party: "When Sir Simoun wist the dome ageyn them gone, His felonie forth thrist, somned his men ilkon, Displaied his banere, lift up his Dragoun!" _Robt. Brunne._