Officers of The College of Arms

(in the reign of Elizabeth)

Office Holder

Year
of
appointment

GARTER KING OF ARMS

Sir Gilbert Dethick 1550-1584
18 month vacancy (Robert Cooke appointed Acting Garter) 1584-1586
William Dethick 1587-1606

CLARENCEUX KING OF ARMS

William Hervy 1557-1567
Robert Cooke 1567-1593
Richard Lee 1594-1597
William Camden 1597-1623

NORROY KING OF ARMS

Laurence Dalton 1557-1561
William Flower 1562-1588
vacancy 1588-1592
Edmund Knight 1592-1593
vacancy 1593-1597
William Segar 1597-1604

CHESTER HERALD

William Flower 1545-1562
Robert Cooke 1562-1567
John Hart 1567-1574
Edmund Knight 1574-1590
James Thomas 1590-1603

LANCASTER HERALD

Nicholas Tubman 1553-1559
John Cocke 1559-1586
Nicholas Paddy 1588-1602
Francis Thynne 1602-1608

RICHMOND HERALD

Nicholas Narboon 1557-1566
Hugh Cotgrave 1566-1584
Richard Lee 1584-1594
William Camden (for one day, before being appointed Clarenceux) 1597
John Raven 1597-1616

SOMERSET HERALD

Edmund Atkinson 1550-1570
Robert Glover 1570-1588
William Segar 1588-1597
Robert Treswell 1597-1624

WINDSOR HERALD

Charles Wriothesley 1534-1562
Richard Turpin 1562-1581
Nicholas Dethick 1583-1596
Thomas Lant 1597-1601
Richard St. George 1602-1604

YORK HERALD

Martin Marroffe 1552-1564
William Colbarne 1565-1567
Ralph Langham 1567-1570
William Dethick 1570-1587
Humphrey Hales 1587-1592
Ralph Brooke 1592-1625

BLUEMANTLE PURSUIVANT

John Hollingsworth 1557-1559
Richard Turpin 1559-1565
Nicholas Dethick 1565-1583
Humphrey Hales 1583-1587
James Thomas 1587-1589
Robert Treswell 1589-1597
Mercury Patten 1597-1611

PORTCULLIS PURSUIVANT

John Cocke 1553-1559
Edward Merlin 1559
Ralph Langman 1559-1568
Robert Glover 1568-1571
Richard Lee 1571-1585
William Segar 1585-1588
Thomas Lant 1588-1597
Samuel Thompson 1597-1606

ROUGE CROIX PURSUIVANT

Hugh Cotgrave 1553-1566
William Dethick 1567-1570
Thomas Dawes 1570-1580
Ralph Brooke 1580-1592
Thomas Knight 1592-1603

ROUGE DRAGON PURSUIVANT

William Colbarne 1553-1565
Edmund Knight 1565-1574
Nicholas Paddy 1574-1588
John Raven 1588-1597
William Smith 1597-1618
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