• heraldry, an augmentation (often termed augmentation of honour or sometimes augmentation of arms) is a modification or addition to a coat of arms, typically...
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    similar label of three points is used in his arms, crest and supporters for the same reason.) In 1953 the badge was given an augmentation of honour. The augmented...
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    Woodstock Palace (category History of Oxfordshire)
    added as an augmentation of honour to the arms of the Dukes of Marlborough, and is still borne by them today. The arms comprise a Cross of St George surmounted...
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    Member of Parliament, he was awarded an augmentation of honour to his arms around 1662. This rare mark of royal favour took the form of a canton of Saint...
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    England. Augmentation of honour granted to the Seymours following Henry VIII's marriage to Jane Coat of arms of Queen Jane Seymour Coat of Arms of Edward...
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    Baronet (redirect from Baronetcy of Ulster)
    baronets of Scotland the privilege of depicting the Arms of Nova Scotia as an augmentation of honour. The former applies to this day for all baronets of Great...
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    conditioned by grant of a type of augmentation of honour by admission in orders of chivalry or by heraldic authorities, such as in the case of traditional British...
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    Unicorn (category National symbols of Scotland)
    arms, as an augmentation of honour. The crest for Clan Cunningham bears a unicorn head. Unicorns as heraldic charges: Arms of John, King of Hungary (16th...
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    Spencer-Churchill, 11th Duke of Marlborough, JP, DL (13 April 1926 – 16 October 2014) was a British peer. He was the elder son of the 10th Duke of Marlborough and...
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    ministers an augmentation of honour on the coat of arms of those who apply for them. The heraldic badge, referred to by the CHA as the mark of the Prime...
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    2018. Davison, Janet (7 November 2014). "Princess Anne's Ottawa tour will honour 'everyday heroes'". Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Archived from the...
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    (appropriate for peers) of a sailor and a lion. In honour of the Battle of the Nile in 1798, the Crown granted him an augmentation of honour blazoned On a chief...
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    Spencer-Churchill, 12th Duke of Marlborough (born 24 November 1955), styled Earl of Sunderland until March 1972 and Marquess of Blandford until October 2014...
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    modification of a coat of arms, representing a less-than honorable augmentation, imposed by an heraldic authority (such as the Court of Chivalry in England)...
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    Wales after its augmentation of honour, used 1953–1959 Flag of Y Wladfa Welsh Australian flag House flag of the Cory Brothers House flag of John Byford and...
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    of Surrey. Coat of arms of the Howard Dukes of Norfolk, starting with Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk.Quarterly of 4: 1: Howard, with augmentation...
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    enormous prestige both socially and at court, and the Howard coat of arms was changed in honour of the victory, incorporating the Scottish lion pierced through...
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    the suggestion of Bishop Peter Nott, formally of Norwich, who had the honour of officiating at the wedding of The Earl and Countess of Wessex, at St....
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    list of flags that are used exclusively in Wales. Other flags used in Wales, as well as the rest of the United Kingdom can be found at list of British...
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    d'Aubigny as Earl of Arundel, with the honour and the castle of Arundel. Arundel Castle is still to this day the home of The Duke and Duchess of Norfolk and...
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    of Somerset) to bear the coat of augmentation granted to Queen Jane Seymour, 10 Aug., 1547. Box I.10.f.119"[2] A companion and key to the history of England;...
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    (appropriate for peers) of a sailor and a lion. In honour of the Battle of the Nile in 1798, the Crown granted him an augmentation of honour blazoned On a chief...
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    a coat of augmentation following the marriage of his son to the queen's sister in August 1537; the second and third quarters have a division of six, with...
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    granted the use and placement of the royal crown above the castle itself as an augmentation of honour by royal cedula of April 23, 1826. These arms were...
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    Duke of Norfolk, he is the most senior peer in the peerage of England. He is also the titular head of the House of Howard. Norfolk is the son of Miles...
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    title of Duke of Norfolk, lost by his father's support for Richard III. The arms of the Dukes of Norfolk still carry an augmentation of honour awarded...
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    augmented in honour of Flodden with an inescutcheon bearing the lion of Scotland pierced through the mouth with an arrow. In the final decade of his life...
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    Korean Augmentation to the United States Army (KATUSA; Korean: 카투사) is a branch of the Republic of Korea Army that consists of Korean enlisted personnel...
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    Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, KG, PC, FRS (7 June 1770 – 4 December 1828) was a British Tory statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom...
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  • reversed in this case." In 1817, an augmentation of honour was granted commemorating the victory at Blenheim by the 1st Duke of Marlborough. As Churchill's father...
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