Bluemantle Pursuivant

Bluemantle Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary is a junior officer of arms of the College of Arms in London. The office is reputed to have been created by King Henry V to serve the Order of the Garter, but there is no documentary evidence of this. There is, however, mention of an officer styled Blewmantle going to France in 1448. The first Bluemantle to be mentioned by name is found in a record from around 1484. The badge of office, probably derived from the original blue material of the Order of the Garter, is blazoned as A Blue Mantle lined Ermine cords and tassels Or.

Bluemantle Pursuivant

The heraldic badge of Blue Mantle Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary
Heraldic tradition	Gallo-British
Jurisdiction	England, Wales and Northern Ireland
Governing body	College of Arms

The current Bluemantle Pursuivant is Mark John Rosborough Scott who was appointed 13 June 2019.

Holders of the office

Arms	Name	Date of appointment	Ref
	John Ashwell or Haswell	(Henry V)
	John Ashwell	(Henry V)
	Thomas More	(1419)
	Thomas Collyer	(Henry V)
	William Hawkeslowe	(Henry VI)
	John Horsley	(Henry VI)
	Richard Stanton	(Henry VI)
	James Collyer or Collier	(Henry VI)
	John Ferrant	(Henry VI)
	Roger Mallett	(Henry VI)
	Henry French or Franke	(Edward IV)
	Richard Champneys	(Edward IV)
	Thomas Hollingsworth	(Edward IV)
	Roger Bromley	(Edward IV)
	John Brice	(Edward IV)
	Thomas French or Franke	(Edward IV)
	Rowland Playnford	(Edward IV)
	Laurence Alford	(1484)
	...Banalee	1503–1507
	Francis Dyes	1508–1510
	Ralph Lago	1510–1522
	Thomas Bysley	1522–1528
	John Hutton	1528–1528
	John Narboone	1528–1536
	Richard Ratcliffe	1536–1543
	William Harvey	1543–1545
	Edmund Atkynson	1545–1550
	Nicholas Narboone	1550–1557
	John Hollingworth	1557–1559
	Richard Turpin	1559–1565
	Nicholas Dethick	1565–1583
	Humphry Hales	1583–1587
	James Thomas	1587–1589
	Robert Treswell	1589–1597
	Mercury Patten	1597–1611
	Henry St George	1611–1616
	Sampson Lennard	1616–1633
	William Ryley	1633–1641
	Robert Browne	1641–1646
	John Watson	1646–1660
	Robert Chaloner	1660–1665
	Richard Hornebrooke	1665–1667
	Thomas Segar	1669–1670
	John Gibbon	1670–1719
	James Greene	1719–1737
	Thomas Browne	1737–1743
	John Pine	1743–1747
	Ralph Bigland	1747–1752
	John Ward	1752–1761
	Isaac Heard	1761–1762
	Henry Pujolas	1762–1763
	Peter Dore	1763–1764
	George Browne	1764–1767
	George Harrison	1767–1774
	Sir Charles Townley	1774–1781
	Edmund Lodge, Esq., FSA	1781–1793
	George Nayler	1793–1794
	John Havers	1794–1797	[1]
	Francis Martin, Jr.	1797–1819
	William Woods	1819–1831	[2]
	George Harrison Rogers-Harrison	1831–1849	[3]
	Henry Murray Lane	1849–1864	[4]
	Henry Harrington Molyneux-Seel	1864–1873	[5]
	Edward Bellasis, Esq.	1873–1882	[6]
	Charles Harold Athill, Esq., MVO, FSA	1882–1889	[7]
	Gordon Ambrose de Lisle Lee, Esq., CB, CVO	1889–1905	[8]
	Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston, KCB, KCVO	1906–1919	[9]
	Hon. Philip Plantagenet Cary, FSA	1919–1923	[10]
	Edmund Clarence Richard Armstrong, Esq., FSA	1923–1923	[11]
	Aubrey John Toppin, Esq., CVO, FSA	1923–1932	[12]
	Richard Preston Graham-Vivian, Esq., MVO, MC	1933–1947	[13]
	James Arnold Frere, Esq., FSA	1948–1956	[14]
	John Philip Brooke Brooke-Little, Esq., CVO, FSA	1956–1967	[15]
	Francis Sedley Andrus, Esq., LVO	1970–1972	[16]
	Sir Peter Llewellyn Gwynn-Jones, KCVO, FSA	1973–1983	[17]
	Terence David McCarthy, Esq.	1983–1991
	Robert John Baptist Noel, Esq.	1992–1999	[18]
	Michael Peter Desmond O'Donoghue, Esq.	2005–2012	[19]
	Mark John Rosborough Scott, Esq., MA	2019–present	[20]

See also

• Heraldry
• Officer of Arms

References

Citations

1. "No. 13653". The London Gazette. 13 May 1794. p. 425.
2. "No. 17468". The London Gazette. 13 April 1819. p. 658.
3. "No. 4019". The Edinburgh Gazette. 29 November 1831. p. 323.
4. "No. 21009". The London Gazette. 14 August 1849. p. 2532.
5. "No. 22912". The London Gazette. 15 November 1864. p. 5371.
6. "No. 24045". The London Gazette. 16 December 1873. p. 5936.
7. "No. 25130". The London Gazette. 25 July 1882. p. 3458.
8. "No. 25967". The London Gazette. 23 August 1889. p. 4611.
9. "No. 11795". The Edinburgh Gazette. 16 January 1906. p. 70.
10. "No. 31243". The London Gazette. 21 March 1919. p. 3753.
11. "No. 32803". The London Gazette. 6 March 1923. p. 1817.
12. "No. 32849". The London Gazette. 31 July 1923. p. 5239.
13. "No. 33925". The London Gazette. 28 March 1933. p. 2115.
14. "No. 38221". The London Gazette. 27 February 1948. p. 1492.
15. "No. 40932". The London Gazette. 23 November 1956. p. 6634.
16. "No. 45066". The London Gazette. 24 March 1970. p. 3415.
17. "No. 45947". The London Gazette. 6 April 1973. p. 4481.
18. "No. 53094". The London Gazette. 25 March 1982. p. 18353.
19. "No. 57539". The London Gazette. 21 January 2005. p. 703.
20. Bluemantle Pursuivant, College of Arms, 13 June 2019, retrieved 14 June 2019

Bibliography

• The College of Arms, Queen Victoria Street : being the sixteenth and final monograph of the London Survey Committee, Walter H. Godfrey, assisted by Sir Anthony Wagner, with a complete list of the officers of arms, prepared by H. Stanford London, (London, 1963)
• A History of the College of Arms &c, Mark Noble, (London, 1804)

External links

• The College of Arms
• CUHGS Officer of Arms Index