The encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . Shield of John Talbot, firstcarl of Shrewsbury (d. 1453),showing four coats quarter quartered with another, the first having Bourchierand Lovaine, the second Tatcrshall and Cromwell. The last detail to be noted in medieval marshalling is- theintroduction into the shield of another surmounting shieldcalled by old armorists the innerscocheon and by modernblazoners the incscutcheon. John the Fearless, count ofFlanders, marshalled his arms in 1409 as a quartered shieldof the new and old c
The encyclopædia britannica; a dictionary of arts, sciences, literature and general information . Shield of John Talbot, firstcarl of Shrewsbury (d. 1453),showing four coats quarter quartered with another, the first having Bourchierand Lovaine, the second Tatcrshall and Cromwell. The last detail to be noted in medieval marshalling is- theintroduction into the shield of another surmounting shieldcalled by old armorists the innerscocheon and by modernblazoners the incscutcheon. John the Fearless, count ofFlanders, marshalled his arms in 1409 as a quartered shieldof the new and old coats of Burgundy. Above these coats ahttle scocheon, borne over the crossing of the quartering lines,had the black lion of Flanders, the arms of his mother. RichardBcauchamp, the adventurous earl of Warwick, who had seenmost European courts during his wanderings, may have hadthis shield in mind when, over his arms of Beauchamp quarteringNewburgh, he set a scocheon of Clare quartering Despenscr,the arms of his wife Isabel Despcnser, co-heir of the earls ofGloucester. The seal of his son-in-law, the King-Maker, showsfour quarters—Beauchamp quartering Clare, Montagu quarteringMont
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