Talk:Otho Holand

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There is no contemporary or near-contemporary evidence for the coat of arms in the illustration. Where has it come from?

Contemporary evidence: his seal, 1358, ^[1]: ″"a lion rampant betw. six fleurs-de-lis″" [comment: this is the same as his father's arms, even though he was a younger son; the six fleurs de lis represent semy de lis (= powdered with fleurs de lis)]

Near-contemporary evidence: roll of arms, ^[2] ″"Otes de Holand″" with painted shield: azure semy de lis and a lion rampant gardant argent, charged on shoulder with a crescent sable. [comment: his brother Thomas, Earl of Kent, is given same arms but with an annulet sable, WJ 377, and brother Alan the same but with a mullet sable, WJ 375; eldest brother, Robert, 2nd Lord Holand, had same arms without any difference, WJ 373, four other rolls of arms, and seals, 1341, 1354, ^[3]]

^ Birch, Catalogue of Seals in the Dept of MSS in the BM, No 10770
^ William Jenyns's Ordinary (c.1380) item no WJ 376
^ Medieval seals in the Durham Cathedral Muniments Nos 1364-65 http://reed.dur.ac.uk/xtf/view?docId=ead/dcd/dcdmseal.xml#PRSH

[1] Birch, Catalogue of Seals in the Dept of MSS in the BM, No 10770

[2] William Jenyns's Ordinary (c.1380) item no WJ 376

[3] Medieval seals in the Durham Cathedral Muniments Nos 1364-65 http://reed.dur.ac.uk/xtf/view?docId=ead/dcd/dcdmseal.xml#PRSH

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