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assume, A lion rampant or, on a field gules within a bordure 

 engrailed of the first, being the armorial insignia of the Prince 

 of South Wales, and which his descendants have ever since 

 borne. 



Gilbert de Talbot died in 1274 and was succeeded by his 

 son, Richard de Talbot, Sheriff of Gloucester 28 Ed. I., who 

 married Sarah, daughter of Wm. Beauchamp, Earl of War- 

 wick, and died 1306, and, according to another authority, 

 " adopted these arms before 1301, in right of his mother, 

 Gwendaline, daughter and heiress of that Prince." 



Sir Gilbert de Talbot succeeded his father in 1306, Lord 

 Chamberlain to King Edward III. in 1328, and had summons 

 to Parliament as a Baron in 1331. He bore at the first 

 Dunstable Tournament, 1308, Gules, a lion rampant or, within 

 a bordure engrailed, over all a label azure (number of points 

 blank), also borne by his son Richard at the 2nd Dunstable 

 Tournament, 1334, and at the Siege of Calais, 1345-8, " being 

 the bardic arms of Rhys Prince of South Wales, the border 

 is often blazoned and tricked indented." 



Sir Gilbert, 5th Lord Talbot, K.G., bore at the Siege of 

 Rouen, 1418, Rhys Gules a lion rampant or, within a bordure 

 engrailed, quarterly with Strange, argent two lions passant in 

 pale gules, and it is from a banner given in MS. B 29 

 Heralds College, I have taken the coloured drawing I show 

 you. 



Sir John Talbot, the 1st and great Earl of Shrewsbury, 

 K.G., bore the same arms, but it may be remembered that 

 the Talbot, " our good dogge," was the Talbot badge, borne 

 with seven golden chamfrons on the banner, " so much 

 feared abroad." His Stall Plate at Windsor is thus described 

 by Mr. St. John Hope.* " A quadrangular plate of gilded 

 copper with fringed border, evidently intended to represent 

 a banner. It bears the shield of arms, which is quarterly : 

 1. Azure a lion and a bordure gold (for Talbot) ; 2, gules a lion 

 and a bordure engrailed gold (for Talbot) ; 3, Silver two lions 



* See reference at end of paper. 



