Pennant
Category
Textiles
Date
1860 - 1876
Materials
Textile, Wood
Measurements
950 x 2400 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Cotehele, Cornwall
NT 348349
Summary
A Victorian copy of the standard of Piers Edgcumbe (c.1465-1539), painted on silk, in heavy wooden frame. Formerly believed to be displayed in the Hall at Cotehele. The Tudor original on which this standard is based is described in "Banners, Standards and Badges from a Tudor Manuscript in the College of Arms with an introduction by Lord Howard de Walden" (The de Walden Library, printed by Bradbury, Agnew & Co. Ltd., London and Tonbridge) as 'Syr Pers Edgecimbe. Blue. (The cross of St. George); CREST; on a wreath or and purpure, a demi stag bendy (4) gules and argent, with three antlers or. Five boars' heads couped and erect argent, armed or, each issuing from a laurel wreath vert.'
Provenance
A transcript of the Presidential address of the 4th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe to the British Archaeological Association in August 1876 at Cotehele states. “I may mention, as bearing on the dates of the buildings here, that the arms of Sir Piers’s first wife only appear in the windows of the hall, while those of this second wife were introduced into the east window of the chapel; but I will weary you with no more details of his biography, except that, having distinguished himself in the following reign at the sieges of Therouennes and Tournay and the “Battle of the Spurs” at Guinegate, he was made knight-banneret by Henry VIII. I have had a facsimile of his standard hung up in the hall, which shows (oddly enough) a crest that was never subsequently used, and appears nowhere else except on the herald’s patent in my possession, dated 1513.”