Difference between revisions of "Edward IV Roll"

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A genealogy of the first Yorkist king Edward IV of England, it includes the arms of his historical and legendary ancestors, with actual and attributed arms.
The main function of the manuscript was as a propaganda to legitimize Edward IV's claim as the rightful King of England.

St. George
Patron Saint of England
Sebbi
King of Essex

Brutus and Pandrasus
Duke of Cornwall

Verdon
De Clare

Badelsmere
Lacy

Leicester
Holland
Earls of Kent

Edmund Plantagenet
Duke of York
Mortimer and Normandy

Warenne
Earls of Surrey
Earls of Chester

Llewelyn ap Gruffyd
Prince of Wales
Brecknock

Princes of Powis
Richard Plantagenet
Earl of Cambridge

Lords of Ireland
Not identified

Edmund Crouchback
Earl of Lancaster
Bohun
Earls of Northampton

Cinque Ports
Staple of Calais

Brutus
King Ethelbert

Princes of Wales
Cadwaladr
King of Gwynedd

King Arthur
Attributed
King Arthur
Attributed

Earl of Cornwall
Dukes of Normandy

Oswald
King of Northumbria
Not identified

Dukes of Aquitaine
Lords of Ireland

Edgar the Pacific
Constantine
Emperor of Rome

Richard the Fearless
Duke of Normandy
Ralph Mortimer
Lord of Wigmore

St. Edmund the Martyr
Ethelred

De Burgh
Earls of Ulster
De Clare
Earls of Gloucester

St. Edward the Confessor
St. Louis IX
King of France

De Bohun
Earls of Hereford
De Geneville

William the Conqueror
Castile and Leon

De Braose
Hampton

Final Banner
England

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