Heraldry can provide useful clues to genealogists to help push a line further back into the medieval period.
Discover the story of medieval Heraldry, including a famous feud in the Court of Chivalry in the 1300s over the right to bear a particular coat of arms, between the Carminows of Cornwall and the Scropes of Bolton Castle in Wensleydale. The Scropes claimed that William the Conqueror had given them the right to bear that coat of arms, but the Carminows claimed that King Arthur had given them the right to bear the arms!
By the 1600s anyone with money and status could buy coats of arms, and many families devised spurious pedigrees to support their new heraldry. Find out the tell-tale signs of a fictitious pedigree and how to avoid being drawn into a dead-end search for non-existant ancestors.
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