Meaning of armigerous | Babel Free

Definitions

Entitled to bear a coat of arms.

not-comparable

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“Mr. Udal suggests that an armigerous woman who marries a non-armigerous man may still display her own⟳ arms. But how? Her husband has no shield, so where are the wife's arms to go?”

“Although the rolls of arms upon which Denholm-Young relied so heavily do not after all show⟳ that the esquires became armigerous in about 1370, it is still significant that the arms of esquires which were not emblazoned on the Parliamentary, Carlisle or Dunstable Rolls should appear⟳ for the first time on a roll of arms in about 1370.”

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