Heraldry by Rule

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The art pages so far have stayed on the peninsula. Islamic stars, Talavera cobalt, the Alhambra’s cut tile, Barcelona’s cement floors, Roman pavements under Seville. I am English, and I wanted the series to come home without changing the subject. The tie turns out to be seven hundred years old and made of exactly the right materials. Eleanor of Castile married Edward I in 1254 and brought her arms with her: the castle of Castile quartered with the lion of León. They are carved on her tomb in Westminster Abbey and on the crosses Edward put up wherever her coffin rested on its way to London. Two centuries later Catherine of Aragon’s badge, the pomegranate of Granada beside the Tudor rose, got carved and painted over most of early Tudor England. Heraldry is how Spain got into English stone, so a heraldry page is how England gets into this series.

Heraldry on Step Into Dev

Heraldry by Rule