Jump to content

File:Grosvenor Duke of Westminster Coat of Arms.svg

Page contents not supported in other languages.
This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Original file (SVG file, nominally 889 × 1,039 pixels, file size: 547 KB)

Summary

Description
English: Coat of Arms of the Duke of Westminster, i.e. "Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Azure a Portcullis with chains pendant Or on a Chief of the last between two united Roses of York and Lancaster a Pale charged with the Arms of King Edward the Confessor (i.e. the old arms of the City of Westminsteroriginally granted 1 October 1601 to Borough of Westminster, regranted by royal warrant dated 6 November 1901 to Metropolitan borough. Source: A.C. Fox-Davies, The Book of Public Arms (T. C. & E. C. Jack, London, 1915. See Westminster arms)); 2nd and 3rd, Azure a Garb Or (Grosvenor), a reference to the garbs in the arms of the Earls of Chester, their feudal overlords. These "modern" arms were adopted in 1389 after the family lost the famous lawsuit of Scrope v Grosvenor contesting the right to the arms Azure, a bend or (Grosvenor "ancient")"
Date
Source Own work
Author JMvanDijk

Licensing

I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following license:
w:en:Creative Commons
attribution share alike
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International license.
You are free:
  • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
  • to remix – to adapt the work
Under the following conditions:
  • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
  • share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.

Captions

Coat of Arms of the Duke of Westminster

Items portrayed in this file

depicts

20 June 2023

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/TimeThumbnailDimensionsUserComment
current16:01, 20 June 2023Thumbnail for version as of 16:01, 20 June 2023889 × 1,039 (547 KB)JMvanDijkUploaded own work with UploadWizard

Metadata