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English:
Garter Stall Plate of Sir John Sully (born c.1283 - died c.1388), KG, of Ruxford and Iddesleigh in Devonshire. Arms:
Ermine, four barrulets gules
. Apparently a modern reproduction (note screw fastenings), as according to
Nicolas, Sir Nicholas Harris
The Controversy between Sir Richard Scrope and Sir Robert Grosvenor in the Court of Chivalry AD MCCCLXXXV - MCCCXC
, Volume 2, London, 1832, pp. 240–3, biography of Sir John Sully
[1]
his
Garter stall plate
does not survive, but was recorded by the antiquarian
Elias Ashmole
(d.1692)
[1]
as showing arms of
Ermine, four barrulets gules
with crest
Two bull's horns
.
[2]
His family's arms are however given differently by the Devon historian Sir
William Pole
(d.1635) as
Ermine, three chevrons gules
[3]
This image published in Hope, 1901, plate 33
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| Source | Hope, Sir William Henry St. John, The Stall Plates of the Knights of the Order of the Garter 1348 – 1485: A Series of Ninety Full-Sized Coloured Facsimiles with Descriptive Notes and Historical Introductions, Westminster: Archibald Constable and Company Ltd, 1901, plate XXXIII [2] |
| Author | Unknown author |
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- ↑ Ashmole MS Collections for the Order of the Garter , Ashmolean Museum. Ashmole incorrectly recorded the name on the plate as John "Sulby" (Nicolas, 1832, p.243)
- ↑ Nicolas, 1832, p.243, footnote 2; Beltz, George Frederick, Memorials of the Order of the Garter from Its Foundation to the Present Time, London: William Pickering, 1841
- ↑ Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.501, also a version with field argent, with various heraldic differences. Nicolas (1832, p.243) stated his arms as Ermine, three chevrons gules