. Heraldry, historical and popular . lf of oneof the divided shields with the Sinister-half of the Chap. XIV. Dividing Lines:—see Chap. III. Doubling:—the lining of a robe : also any enrichment of arobe or mantle by means of ermine or other rich material. Dulce .-—next to the Princes and Princesses of the BloodEoyal and to the fotH=-Archbishops of England aB4~l¥eltmd,the highest order and rank of the British Peerage. This title was intioduced by Edwaud III., 1337, when hecreated his son Prince Edward, the Black Prince, Duke ofCornwall. The second of the English Dukes was HenryPl
. Heraldry, historical and popular . lf of oneof the divided shields with the Sinister-half of the Chap. XIV. Dividing Lines:—see Chap. III. Doubling:—the lining of a robe : also any enrichment of arobe or mantle by means of ermine or other rich material. Dulce .-—next to the Princes and Princesses of the BloodEoyal and to the fotH=-Archbishops of England aB4~l¥eltmd,the highest order and rank of the British Peerage. This title was intioduced by Edwaud III., 1337, when hecreated his son Prince Edward, the Black Prince, Duke ofCornwall. The second of the English Dukes was HenryPlantagenet, Earl of Lancaster, Derby, and Leicester, andCount of Provence, who was created Duke of Lancaster, A Dukes coronet, as now worn, has eight strawberry-leaves of a conventional type, set upon an enriched circle of gold,the cap (if a cap be worn) being of crimson velvet, with a goldentassel and guarded with ermine; in representations, five only ofthe leaves are shown, Ko. 27G. The opinion is prevalent that \/. No. 276. this distinctive form of coronet appears for the first time, placed vupon the basinet of Prince John Plantagenet, of Eltham, Earlof Cornwall, in his effigy at Westminster, 1336. Thatthere is no foundation for such an origin of the Ducal Coronet 102 MISCELLANEOUS NAMES AND TITLES. is evident from the cflSgy itself. The decorations of the head-piece and of the rest of the armour are precisely the same, andthey are also identical with similar decorations that appear inother efiSgies of about the same date. The hasinet of PrinceJohn, No. 277, PI. XVI., however, evidently was once encircledby a plain naiTow fillet, which is not the case in any otherinstance, so far as I am aware. In the efSgy at York, of thenephew of John of Eltham, Prince William, second son ofEdward III., who was bom 1336, and died in childhood, thehead has the long and flowing hair encircled by a jewelled fillet,\ represented in No. 278. The effigy of the Black Pri
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