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Rouge Croix Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary is in Pursuivant.
Rouge Croix Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary is the oldest of the Pursuivants in Ordinary being established in the reign of Henry IV. The Red Cross refers to the Cross of St George.
Around 1505 William Wriothesley (age 16) was appointed Rouge Croix Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary.
In 1524 Thomas Wriothesley (age 36) was appointed Rouge Croix Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary with the annual salary of £10.
In 1544 William Flower (age 46) was appointed Rouge Croix Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary.
On 15th November 1546 Lawrence Dalton (age 36) was appointed Rouge Croix Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary.
In 1553 Henry Cotgrove was appointed Rouge Croix Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary.
On 14th November 1553 Nicholas Tubman was appointed Rouge Croix Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary.
In 1567 William Dethick (age 25) was appointed Rouge Croix Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary.
On 29th May 1621 Augustine Vincent (age 37) was appointed Rouge Croix Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary.
In 1639 William Dugdale (age 33) was appointed Rouge Croix Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary.
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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
The London Gazette 23152. Whitehall, August 16, 1866.
The Queen (age 47) has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, granting unto John von Sonnentag Haviland, gentleman, the office of Rouge Croix Pursuivant of Arms, vacant by the promotion of James Robinson Planche", Esq., to the office of Somerset Herald.
In 1983 Henry Edgar Paston-Bedingfeld 10th Baronet (age 39) was appointed Rouge Croix Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary.