Bluemantle Pursuivant

Bluemantle Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary is a junior officer of arms of the College of Arms in London.

Bluemantle Pursuivant Richard Graham-Vivian, part of a 1937 series of cigarette cards marking the Coronation of George VI.

Bluemantle Pursuivant

The heraldic badge of Bluemantle Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary
Heraldic tradition	Gallo-British
Jurisdiction	England, Wales and Northern Ireland
Governing body	College of Arms

Flag of the Bluemantle Pursuivant

The office is reputed to have been created by Henry V to serve the Order of the Garter, but there is no documentary evidence of this. There is, however, mention of an envoy styled Blewmantle going to France in 1448. The first Bluemantle to be mentioned by name is found in a record circa 1484. The badge of office, probably deriving from the original blue silk material of the Order of the Garter, is blazoned as A Blue Mantle lined Ermine cords and tassels Or.

A 19th-century Bluemantle Pursuivant founded Bluemantle's Cricket Club.^[1]

The current Bluemantle Pursuivant of Arms is James Peill FSA.

Holders of the office

Arms	Name	Date of appointment	Ref
	John Ashwell or Haswell	(Henry V)
	John Ashwell	(Henry V)
	Thomas More	(1419)
	Thomas Collyer	(Henry V)
	William Hawkeslowe	(Henry VI)
	John Horsley	(Henry VI)
	Richard Stanton	(Henry VI)
	James Collyer or Collier	(Henry VI)
	John Ferrant	(Henry VI)
	Roger Mallett	(Henry VI)
	Henry French or Franke	(Edward IV)
	Richard Champneys	(Edward IV)
	Thomas Hollingsworth	(Edward IV)
	Roger Bromley	(Edward IV)
	John Brice	(Edward IV)
	Thomas French or Franke	(Edward IV)
	Rowland Playnford	(Edward IV)
	Laurence Alford	(1484)
	... Banastre	1503–1507
	Francis Dyes	1508–1510
	Ralph Lago	1510–1522
	Thomas Bysley	1522–1528
	John Hutton	1528–1528
	John Narboone	1528–1536
	Richard Ratcliffe	1536–1543
	William Harvey	1543–1545
	Edmund Atkynson	1545–1550
	Nicholas Narboone	1550–1557
	John Hollingworth	1557–1559
	Richard Turpin	1559–1565
	Nicholas Dethick	1565–1583
	Humphry Hales	1583–1587
	James Thomas	1587–1589
	Robert Treswell	1589–1597
	Mercury Patten	1597–1611
	Sir Henry St George	1611–1616
	Sampson Lennard	1616–1633
	William Ryley	1633–1641
	Robert Browne	1641–1646
	John Watson	1646–1660
	Robert Chaloner	1660–1665
	Richard Hornebrooke	1665–1667
	Thomas Segar	1669–1670
	John Gibbon	1670–1719
	James Greene	1719–1737
	Thomas Browne	1737–1743
	John Pine	1743–1747
	Sir Ralph Bigland	1747–1752
	John Ward	1752–1761
	Sir Isaac Heard	1761–1762
	Henry Pujolas	1762–1763
	Peter Dore	1763–1764
	George Browne	1764–1767
	George Harrison	1767–1774
	Sir Charles Townley	1774–1781
	Sir Edmund Lodge	1781–1793
	Sir George Nayler	1793–1794
	John Havers	1794–1797	[2]
	Francis Martin, Jr.	1797–1819
	Sir William Woods	1819–1831	[3]
	George Harrison Rogers-Harrison	1831–1849	[4]
	Henry Murray Lane	1849–1864	[5]
	Henry Harrington Molyneux-Seel	1864–1873	[6]
	Edward Bellasis	1873–1882	[7]
	Charles Harold Athill	1882–1889	[8]
	Gordon Ambrose de Lisle Lee	1889–1905	[9]
	Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston	1906–1919	[10]
	Philip Plantagenet Cary	1919–1923	[11]
	Edmund Clarence Richard Armstrong[disambiguation needed]	1923–1923	[12]
	Aubrey John Toppin	1923–1932	[13]
	Richard Preston Graham-Vivian	1933–1947	[14]
	James Arnold Frere	1948–1956	[15]
	John Philip Brook Brooke-Little	1956–1967	[16]
	Francis Sedley Andrus	1970–1972	[17]
	Sir Peter Llewellyn Gwynn-Jones	1973–1983	[18]
	Terence David McCarthy	1983–1991	[19]
	Robert John Baptist Noel	1992–1999	[20]
	Michael Peter Desmond O'Donoghue	2005–2012	[21]
	Mark John Rosborough Scott	2019–2024	[22]
	James van Someren Peill	2024–present	[23]

See also

• Heraldry
• Officer of Arms