Royal Badges of English Monarchs
- William II: a flower of five foils
- Henry I: a flower of eight foils
- Stephen: a flower of seven foils; a Sagittarius; a Plume of Ostrich Feathers; Motto: Vi nulla invertitur ordo (No force alters their fashion)
- Henry II: the Planta-genista; an Escarbuncle; a Sword and Olive branch
- Richard I: a star of thirteen rays and a crescent; a star issuing from a crescent; a mailed arm grasping a broken lance, with the motto Christo Duce
- John and Henry III: a star issuing from a crescent
- Edward I: a heraldic rose or, stalked ppr
- Edward II: a castle of Castile
- Edward III: a Fleur-de-Lys; a Leopard, a Sword; a falcon; a Gryphon; a Stock (stump) of a tree; rays issuing from a cloud
- Richard II: a White Hart lodged; the Stock (stump) of a tree; a white falcon; a Sun in Splendor; a Sun Clouded
- Henry IV: the Monogram (cypher) SS; a crowned eagle; an eagle displayed; a white swan; a red rose; a Columbine flower; a fox’s tail; a crowned panther; the Stock (stump) of a tree; a Crescent
- Henry V: a fire-beacon; a white swan gorged and chained; a chained antelope
- Henry VI: two ostrich feathers in Saltire; a chained antelope; a panther
- Edward IV: a white rose en Soleil; a white wolf and white lion; a white Hart; a black dragon and black bull; a falcon and Fetter-lock; the Sun in Splendor
- Richard III of England: the White Boar, the Sun in Splendor
- Henry VII: a Rose of York and Lancaster; a Portcullis and a Fleur-de-Lis, all of them crowned; a red dragon; a white greyhound; a Hawthorn Bush and Crown, with the cypher H.R.
- Henry VIII: the same, without the Hawthorn Bush and with a White Cockerel
- Catherine of Aragon: a rose, pomegranate, and Sheaf of Arrows
- Anne Boleyn: a crowned falcon, holding a Sceptre
- Jane Seymour: a phoenix rising from a castle, between two Tudor Roses
- Catherine Parr: a Maiden's Head crowned, rising from a large Tudor Rose
- Edward VI: a Tudor Rose; the sun in splendor
- Mary I: a Tudor Rose impaling a pomegranate, also impaling a Sheaf of Arrows, ensigned with a Crown, and surrounded with Rays; a pomegranate
- Elizabeth I: a Tudor Rose, with the motto, Rosa sine Spina (a Rose without a Thorn); a crowned falcon and sceptre; her motto, Semper Eadem (Always the same)
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