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Description Cranmer BishopricArms.png |
English:
Paternal canting arms of Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury:
Argent, a chevron between three cranes azure
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Showing the arms of the See of Canterbury impaling the canting arms of Cranmer:
A chevron between three cranes
. These arms were changed by King Henry VIII to
On a chevron between three pelicans vulning themselves three cinquefoils
as recorded by Thomas Strype in 1693:
Cranmer's seal of Nov. 1538 still showed cranes, but by April 1540 he had adopted the pelicans. (Ridley, Jasper, Thomas Cranmer , note 1 to chapter 1 [2] ) Arms of Cranmer (per Berry, William, Encyclopaedia Heraldica, Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry , Volume 2 [3] : Argent, a chevron between three cranes azure and later arms: Argent, on a chevron azure between three pelicans sable vulning themselves proper as many cinquefoils or Further discussion of Cranmer's seals and heraldry see: MacCulloch, Diarmaid, Thomas Cranmer: A Life , pp.9-12 [4] |
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Source | Own work, using pelican from File:Evergem wapen.svg by User:Archmedus |
Author | Lobsterthermidor ( talk ) 02:57, 7 November 2018 (UTC) |
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