Britain Has Over 600 Red Lion Pubs...What is a Red Lion?
Aug 26th, 2014, 06:16 AM
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>>I decided there and then to have a drink in EVERY SINGLE ONE. so far I have been in 493 as far North as Fochabers Scotland and down to Penzance, the Isle Of Wight, East to the Norfolk Broads and West to Cardigan<<
And you still managed to spell all that correctly....
Chapeau!
And you still managed to spell all that correctly....
Chapeau!
Aug 26th, 2014, 11:15 AM
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Aug 26th, 2014, 12:01 PM
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Didn't John of Gaunt change his coat of arms when he gave up his claim to Leon (the lion in his arms) in 1388?
John of Gaunt had three different set of coats of arms, using the Leon/Catille quartering only during the 17 year he was married to Constance of Castille. His personal device wan't the lion, but three ostrich feathers - and there's no evidence the lion was ever associated with him personally.
John of Gaunt had three different set of coats of arms, using the Leon/Catille quartering only during the 17 year he was married to Constance of Castille. His personal device wan't the lion, but three ostrich feathers - and there's no evidence the lion was ever associated with him personally.
Aug 27th, 2014, 11:46 PM
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>>How many Three Ostrich Feathers pubs are there in Britain?<<
Almost any pub with three ostrich feathers on its sign would be named the Prince of Wales, since that's been the badge for successive Princes of Wales since I don't know when. Most such pubs will have been built during the long period when the title was held by her son Albert Edward (Edward VII).
Almost any pub with three ostrich feathers on its sign would be named the Prince of Wales, since that's been the badge for successive Princes of Wales since I don't know when. Most such pubs will have been built during the long period when the title was held by her son Albert Edward (Edward VII).
Aug 28th, 2014, 02:25 AM
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Quote <b>PatrickLondon</b>: <i>"Most such pubs will have been built during the long period when the title was held by her son Albert Edward (Edward VII).</i>
Has Victoria become "She-who-must-not-be-named"?
When did <i>that</i> happen?
Dr D.
Has Victoria become "She-who-must-not-be-named"?
When did <i>that</i> happen?
Dr D.
Aug 28th, 2014, 08:00 AM
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"3 Ostrich Feathers come from the Black Prince via his mother's family"
Not quite.
John of Gaunt and the Black Prince shared a mother (as brothers so often do), and the ostrich feathers do seem to have arrived here through her. The two brothers coloured the feathers on their arms differently - and of course Edward had them first, being the older.
But though no doubt Edward III and his wife Philippa forced baby John to wear brother Edward's castoff jumpsuits and toddler-sized jousting armour once Edward grew out of then, armorial bearings just don't get handed down like that.
Not quite.
John of Gaunt and the Black Prince shared a mother (as brothers so often do), and the ostrich feathers do seem to have arrived here through her. The two brothers coloured the feathers on their arms differently - and of course Edward had them first, being the older.
But though no doubt Edward III and his wife Philippa forced baby John to wear brother Edward's castoff jumpsuits and toddler-sized jousting armour once Edward grew out of then, armorial bearings just don't get handed down like that.
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