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Snawdoun Herald

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Snawdoun Herald of Arms in Ordinary is a current Scottish herald of arms in Ordinary of the Court of the Lord Lyon.[1]

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The office was first mentioned in 1443 and the title is derived from a part of Stirling Castle which bore the same name. The previous Snawdoun Herald of Arms to serve retired in 1883.

The office was last held by Elizabeth A. Roads, former Lyon Clerk and Keeper of the Records for the Court of the Lord Lyon in Edinburgh. She was appointed to this post on the 17 December 2010,[2] and retired in 2021.[3]

The badge of office is Issuant from battlements Proper a unicorn’s head erased Argent, horned and crined and grasping in his mouth the sword Excalibur Or all ensigned of the Crown of Scotland Proper. The granting of this badge completed the devising of badges for all the ordinary and regularly used extraordinary officer of arms titles.[4]

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References

  1. [1]
    "The Officers of Arms in Scotland". The Court of the Lord Lyon. Retrieved 2 June 2011.
  2. [2]
    "No. 26893". The Edinburgh Gazette. 21 January 2011. p. 107.
  3. [3]
    Unicorn (5 July 2021). "Heraldry Society of Scotland - Membership Secretary's Blog: Vice-President Elizabeth Roads retires as Herald". Heraldry Society of Scotland - Membership Secretary's Blog. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
  4. [4]
    Roads, Elizabeth Ann. "Badges of the Scottish Officers of Arms". The Double Tressure (20 1998): 77–86.
  5. [5]
    Grant, Sir Francis James (1945). Court of the Lord Lyon: List of His Majesty's Officers of Arms and Other Officials with Genealogical Notes, 1318-1945. Society.
  6. [6]
    John H. Stevenson, Heraldry in Scotland (1914), vol ii, p 445-446.
  7. [7]
    Miscellany of the Scottish History Society, no.9 (1958), p.94.
  8. [8]
    Register Privy Council Scotland, vol.1 (1879), pp.658-660, list of heralds and messengers in 1569
  9. [9]
    Lyon Register Page 367, Number 5411.


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