Heralds' College

American  

noun

1. a royal corporation in England, instituted in 1483, concerned chiefly with armorial bearings, genealogies, honors, and precedence.

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heralds' college British  

noun

1. another name for college of arms

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Example Sentences

Mr. Robertson ranks, indeed, with the four pursuivants of Heralds' College, from which the Scutorium was originally an offshoot.

From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

Clarenceux King of Arms, an officer of the Heralds’ College, derives his style, through Clarence, from Clare.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 4 "Cincinnatus" to "Cleruchy" by Various

It seems that Andros placed on record at Heralds' College a very elaborate pedigree of his family, September 18th, 1686, a few days before he sailed to assume the government of New England.

From A Memoir of Sir Edmund Andros, Knt., Governor of New England, New York and Virginia, &c., &c. by Whitmore, William Henry

We cannot, then, accept the version of his family history that satisfied the complaisant Heralds' College.

From William Shakespeare His Homes and Haunts by Forestier, A. (Amédée)

It is a certificate of good birth more satisfactory than any which the Heralds' College or the Genealogical Association can furnish.

From My Unknown Chum by Fairbanks, Charles Bullard