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| Keywords: Arms of Wales.JPG en Ultra-ornate version of the Llewelyn arms see File Coat of arms of Wales svg as described in Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales Containing a Record of All Ranks of the Gentry with Many Ancient Pedigrees and Memorials of Old and Extinct Families By Nicholas Thomas Published by Longmans Green Reader 1872 p X As described in Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales 1872 The Arms of Wales emblazoned on the cover and Frontispiece are the same as those given in the Heraldic Visitations of Wales by Lewys Dwnn They were drawn but without blazon by Camdeti and are preserved in the British Museum The earliest coeval document in which they are mentioned says Meyrick is the Life of Foulques Fitz Warren of the time of Henry III in the British Museum which also omits the blazon In the College of Arms 2 G 4 is a representation of qunrterings appertaining to Queen Elizabeth sketched in her time and here the Arms of Wales are given as ” Quarterly gules and or four lions passant giiardant ;ounterchanged In the Harleian Library British Museum is a MS No 6096 of the same date wherein he arms appear in like manner So also in No 6085 of the Harleian and L 14 in the Heralds' College as well as in an emblazoned MS by Sir William Segur dedicated to James I in the library at Goodrich Court Hence the arms of Wales have been thus emblazoned here in a shield placed on a ground of the Tudor colours as was customary in the days of Elizabeth and the feathers with their motto and the crown of the Principality added on the authority of the seals of Edward IV and Arthur son of Henry VII given in the 2<xh vol of the Archaologia Enderbie in his Cambria Tritiniphaus assigns these arms to Rhodri the Great Prince of all Wales on the authority of Mills in his Catalogue of Honour and continues them to his descendants But the practice of quartering arms was not known in the time of Rhodri the Great It is to be noted that in the quartered arms of Llewelyn the Great when Prince of all Wales the lion was passant as drawn by Camden http //books google com/books id iD4LAAAAYAAJ Camdeti Original Llewelyn arms were 13th Century; redrawn ultra-ornately in 16th and/or 19th centuries File Coat of arms of Wales svg PD-old Welsh Royal Coats of arms | ||||
