Frontispiece of the record of the visitation of Dublin, undertaken by Ulster King of Arms Daniel Molyneux in February 1607
Heraldic visitations were tours of inspection undertaken by Kings of Arms (or alternatively by heralds, or junior officers of arms, acting as their deputies) throughout England, Wales and Ireland. Their purpose was to register and regulate the coats of arms of nobility, gentry and boroughs, and to record pedigrees. They took place from 1530 to 1688, and their records (akin to an upper class census) provide important source material for historians and genealogists.
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Heraldicvisitations were tours of inspection undertaken by Kings of Arms (or alternatively by heralds, or junior officers of arms, acting as their deputies)...
Look up Visitation or visitation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Visitation may refer to: Visitation (law) or contact, the right of a non-custodial...
the HeraldicVisitation of the northern counties in 1530 by Thomas Tonge, Norroy King of Arms (d. 1534). The records of Tonge's HeraldicVisitation were...
location, generally one of the chief towns of the county. The 1623 HeraldicVisitation for Gloucestershire, for example, includes a section at the back...
corporate seal and was officially recorded as the arms of the town at an heraldicvisitation in 1634. The saltire is used as both a flag and a coat of arms. As...
formed the crest of the Borough of Leicester as recorded at the heraldicvisitation of Leicestershire in 1619: "A wyvern sans legs argent strewed with...
best-known branch of heraldry, concerns the design and transmission of the heraldic achievement. The achievement, or armorial bearings usually includes a coat...
Look up visitations in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Visitations may refer to: Heraldicvisitation Brooklyn Visitations, an American basketball team...
of Leicester's coat of arms was first granted to the city at the HeraldicVisitation of 1619, and is based on the arms of the first Earl of Leicester...
of the arms of the first mayor. These arms were recorded at the heraldicvisitation of Yorkshire in 1666. By the time that the borough was reformed by...
lion—and supporters was not formally granted but was recorded at the heraldicvisitation on 12 August 1634. The oldest image of the ox on the water is from...
Arms during the heraldicvisitation of Dorset in 1563. The arms were recorded again at the visitation of 1623, but neither visitation noted the colours...
being the heraldic heiress of Llywelyn. The Golden Grove 1641 Pedigree - Carmarthenshire County Archive. Dwnn, L. 'The HeraldicVisitation of Wales',...
during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The purpose of these heraldicvisitations was to register and regulate the use of coats of arms. Those who...
Benolt, Clarenceux King of Arms. In this capacity, he undertook a heraldicvisitation of London churches on Benolt's behalf. He was charged "to reforme...
tenth creation quartered the ancient royal arms of Gwent in the 1620 heraldicVisitation, which supports this claim. [1] Sir William was thought by antiquarians...
arms appeared on a 15th-century seal and were confirmed during a heraldicvisitation in 1562 by William Harvey, Clarenceux King of Arms. According to...
Ernle was alive and active in the county. By the time of the 1634 heraldicVisitation of Sussex, the remaining Sussex Ernle heritage was represented by...
licensed to carry out heraldicvisitations, though no such visitation record has survived. Wriothesley's output as a heraldic artist was considerable...
an English genealogist and historian. He edited editions of the HeraldicVisitations of Devon and of Cornwall, standard reference works for historians...
third marriage, recorded in the enhanced copy (dated 1602) of the heraldicvisitation of Hampshire (1576) made by Smythe, Rouge Dragon Pursuivant at the...
Grove 1641 Pedigree - Carmarthenshire County Archive. Dwnn, L. 'The HeraldicVisitation of Wales', Vol II, 1846, p. 24. "The Royal Families of England, Scotland...
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