European Heraldry

Royal Arms up to Edward III

Pre Norman conquest Royal Arms

• King Edward the Confessor (c.1003– 1066)
• Harold Godwinson, Harold II,(c.1022–1066)

Early Norman Kings

• William I of England (1027– 1087), William the Conqueror, Duke of Normandy from 1035 and King of England from 1066
• Stephen, (c.1096 – 1154), Stephen of Blois, the last Norman King of England

Early House of Plantagenet

• Geoffrey V ( 1113 – 1151),called Plantagenet, Count of Anjou, Touraine,

and Mainefrom 1129 and Duke of Normandy from 1144.
Ancestor of the House of Plantagenet

• Richard I, (1157– 1199), Richard the Lionheart Duke of Aquitaine, Duke of Gascony, Lord of Ireland, Lord of Cyprus, Count of Anjou, Count of Nantes and Overlord of Brittany
• Henry III, ( 1207–1272) to Edward II, ( 1284– 1327)
• Edward I ( 1239 – 1307), known as Longshanks, as Heir to England
• Edmund Crouchback, 1st Earl of Lancaster ( 1245 – 1296)

Later Dukes, Line extinct 1361

• Henry Plantagenet, Earl of Leicester and Derby, 3rd Earl of Lancaster (1281– 1345)

Arms before his restoration

• Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk ( 1300– 1338)

Ancestor in the Maternal line of the Howard Dukes of Norfolk and their Cadet branches

• Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent ( 1301– 1330)

Line extinct 1385

• Thomas Holland, Earl of Kent (1350–)

Later Dukes of Surrey, Line extinct 1408

• John Holland, 1st Duke of Exeter (1352– 1400),,

Line extinct 1475

• John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall ( 1316–)