| Charles Boutell - Heraldry - 1863 - 666 pages
...Banner of EDWARD I, the Chronicler of Caerlaverock describes after this characteristic manner ; " On his Banner were three Leopards, courant, of fine gold, set on red ; fierce were they, haughty and cruel, thus placed to signify that, like them, the King is dreadful to his enemies.... | |
| Charles Boutell - Heraldry - 1863 - 570 pages
...Banner of EDWARD I, the Chronicler of Caerlaverock describes after this characteristic manner : " On his Banner were three Leopards, courant, of fine gold, set on red ; fierce were they, haughty and cruel, thus placed to signify that, like them, the King is dreadful to his enemies.... | |
| John Hill Burton - Scotland - 1867 - 458 pages
...tells us what they were in race and chivalrous renown : thus, " Edward, King of England and Scotland, conducted the third squadron at a little distance,...banner were three leopards courant of fine gold set in red, fierce, haughty, and cruel — thus placed to signify that, like them, the king is dreadful,... | |
| William McDowall - Dumfries (Scotland) - 1867 - 938 pages
...and bearing are depicted by our authority in courtly style. " The King," he tells us, " brought itp the rear so closely and ably, that none of the others...were three leopards courant, of fine gold, set on red—fierce, haughty, and cruel: thus placed to signify that, like them, the King is dreadful, fierce,... | |
| Charles Boutell - Heraldry - 1867 - 378 pages
...Princess of Wales— oj the other Princes and Princesses, the Sons and Daughters of the Queen. " On his Banner were three Leopards, courant, of fine gold, set on red : fierce were they, haughty and cruel, to signify that, like them, the KING is dreadful to his enemies ; for... | |
| George Henry Preble - Flags - 1872 - 578 pages
...chronicler of Caerleverock describes the royal banner of Edward I after this characteristic manner : " On his banner were three leopards, courant, of fine gold, set on red ; fierce were they, haughty and cruel, thus placed to signify that, like them, the king is dreadful to his enemies.... | |
| Cornelius Brown (F. R. S. L.) - Nottingham (England) - 1874 - 196 pages
...is as old as 1300. In it the chronicler, who wrote its jingling rhymes in Norman-French, says, " On his banner were three leopards, courant, of fine gold, set on red ; fierce were they, haughty and cruel, to signify that, like them, the KING is dreadful to his enemies ; for... | |
| 1876 - 340 pages
...of those proud progresses which the English king made through the land. There were " upon his banner three leopards courant, of fine gold set on red ;...haughty, and cruel ; — thus placed to signify that the king is dreadful, fierce, and proud to his enemies ; for his bite is slight to none who inflame... | |
| Paisley abbey - 1876 - 336 pages
...of those proud progresses which the English king made through the land. There were " upon his banner three leopards courant, of fine gold set on red; fierce, haughty, and cruel;—thus placed to signify that the king is dreadful, fierce, and proud to his enemies; for his... | |
| George Henry Preble - Flags - 1880 - 928 pages
...chronicler of Caerlaverock describes the royal banner of Edward I. after this characteristic manner: "On his banner were three leopards, courant, of fine gold, set on red; fierce were they, haughty and cruel, thus placed to signify that, like them, the king is dreadful to his enemies.... | |
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