Writers On British Heraldry
The main historical authorities on heraldry include the following:
- Dame Juliana Berners (14/15th.c.), author of The Book of Saint Albans. Includes much fanciful invention.
- Thomas Wriothesley (d.1534), Garter King of Arms. Depicted many arms.
- Gerard Legh (d.1563)
- John Ferne (d.1609)
- John Guillim (d.1621), author of Display of Heraldry (1610)
- John Gibbon, author of Introductio ad Latinam Blasoniam (1682)
- Thomas Robson, author of The British Herald (1830). A complete listing of all known British armourials.
- Charles Boutell (d.1877)
- James Planché (d.1880)
- John Bernard Burke (1814–1892), author of Burke's Armorials (sic), (1884). This is an essential reference book which attempted to list every known British coat. Not always reliable.
- Arthur Charles Fox-Davies (d.1928)
- Iain Moncrieffe and Don Pottinger, authors of Simple Heraldry Cheerfully Illustrated (1953)
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