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Rouge Croix Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary is a junior officer of arms of the College of Arms. He is said to be the oldest of the four pursuivants in ordinary. The office is named after St George's Cross which has been a symbol of England since the time of the Crusades.

The current Rouge Croix Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary is Thomas Johnston. He took part in the Royal Procession at the 2023 Coronation.[1]

Holders of the office

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Arms Name Date of appointment Notes Ref
Nicholas Serby (Henry IV?) Serby was "said to have been Falcon [Herald] and Rouge Croix [Pursuivant]" in the reign of Henry IV (1399–1413); contemporary records show that he was already Leopard Herald the 6th Year of the reign of Henry IV (1404).[2] He is therefore regarded by the historians Walter H. Godfrey and Sir Anthony Wagner as serving as Rouge Croix at some point in the reign of Henry IV, though the office is not recorded in contemporary records until 1418–19.[3] Serby was still in the office of Leopard Herald in January 1420, but no further information about him is known.[2] [3]
William Boys (Henry IV) Boys is listed by Godfrey and Wagner as Rouge Croix in the reign of Henry IV,[3] though contemporary evidence is lacking. He was known to be Dorset Herald in c. 1413 in the household of Thomas Beaufort, Earl of Dorset; he was Exeter Herald in the Earl's household in c. 1416. He was Anjou King of Arms to John, Duke of Bedford, by c. 1427, during which time he was primarily in France. He joined the Royal Household in 1436, when he was appointed Lancaster Herald and King of the Northern Province (Norroy King of Arms). He was still living in 1446.[4] [3]
Giles Waster (Henry V) Waster is listed by Godfrey and Wagner as Rouge Croix in the reign of Henry V, though contemporary evidence is lacking;[2][3] they note that he was said to have been Falcon Herald in this reign and Rouge Croix in the 6th year of the reign. He is known to have been Mowbray Herald in 1420.[2] [3]
Roger Legh or Lygh (Henry V) Legh was said to have been Rouge Croix in the 8th year of the reign of Henry V, though contemporary evidence is lacking; Godfrey and Wagner list him as Rouge Croix in the reign.[3] Legh was also said to have been Wallingford Pursuivant in the same reign, but this is also not attested in evidence from the time. He is known to have been Gloucester Herald, by 1431, and may have been in office by 1426; he was promoted to Clarenceux King of Arms in 1435 and died in 1460.[5] [3]
John Writhe (Henry V) [3]
John Mowbray (9 Henry V) [3]
Robert Ashwell (Henry VI)
James Billett (Henry VI)
John Mallett (Henry VI)
Robert Dunham (Henry VI)
Richard Ashwell (Henry VI)
John Ballard (Henry VI)
Thomas Holme (Henry VI)
John More (Henry VI)
William Carlill (Edward IV)
Roger Stamford (Edward IV)
Richard Slacke (Edward IV)
John Water or Walter (Edward IV)
Thomas Benolt (Edward IV)
Thomas Waters (Edward IV)
Robert Browne (Edward IV)
William Jenyns (Edward IV)
Thomas Tonge (Edward IV)
George Berry (1484)
Richard Greenwood (1485)
(name unknown) (1492)
William Wriothesley 1505–1509
Thomas Hawley 1509–1515
Laurence de la Gatta 1515–1520
Thomas Wall 1521–1521
Charles Wriothesley 1524–1535
Bartholomew Butler 1535–1538
Thomas Stevenson 1538–1540
Gilbert Dethick 1540–1541
Justinian Barker 1541–1543
William Flower 1543–1546
Lawrence Dalton 1546–1547
Simon Newbald (Edward VI)
Nicholas Tubman 1551–1553
Henry Cotgrove 1553–1566
William Dethick 1566–1569
Thomas Dawes 1569–1580
Ralph Brooke 1580–1592
Thomas Knight 1592–1604
William Wyrley 1604–1619
John Guillim 1619–1621
Augustine Vincent 1621–1624
John Bradshaw 1624–1626
George Owen 1626–1637
Edward Walker 1637–1638
Henry Lilly 1638–1639
William Dugdale 1639–?
Robert Browne (intruded)
Everard Exton (intruded)
Henry Dethick 1660–1677
Henry Ball 1677–1686
Charles Mawson 1686–1688
Samuel Stebbing 1688–?
Peter Le Neve (Anne)
John Bound (Anne)
Richard Graham 1722–1725
Richard Pomfret 1725–1751
Alexander Cozens 1751–1752
Henry Hastings 1752?–1773
John Charles Brooke 1773–1777
Francis Townsend 1777–1784 [6]
John Atkinson 1784–1794
Joseph Hawker 1794–1803 [7]
William Radclyffe 1803–1823 [8]
Robert Laurie 1823–1839 [9]
William Courthope 1839–1854 [10]
James Planché 1854–1866 [11]
John von Sonnentag Haviland 1866–1872 [12]
Stephen Isaacson Tucker 1872–1880 [13]
Henry Farnham Burke 1880–1887 [14]
George William Marshall 1887–1904 [15]
Arthur William Steuart Cochrane 1904–1915 [16]
Archibald George Blomefield Russell 1915–1922 [17]
Henry Robert Charles Martin 1922–1928 [18]
Philip Walter Kerr, MVO, FSA 1928–1941
Lt-Col. John Riddell Bomhead Walker, MC 1947–1954
Walter John George Verco, MVO 1954–1960
Lt-Col. Rodney Onslow Dennys, OBE 1961–1967 [19]
– (vacant) 1967–1970 – [20]
(David) Hubert Boothby Chesshyre 1970–1978 [20][21]
Thomas Woodcock 1978–1982 Born in 1951, Woodcock attended Eton College, before completing degrees at University College, Durham, and Darwin College, Cambridge. He was called to the bar at the Inner Temple in 1975.[22] That year, he joined the practice of Sir Anthony Wagner, Garter King of Arms. He was appointed Rouge Croix in 1978, Somerset Herald in 1982, and Norroy and Ulster King of Arms in 1997. From 2010 until his retirement in 2021, he was Garter King of Arms.[23] He also served as genealogist to the Order of the Bath from 2010 to 2021.[22] He co-authored The Oxford Guide to Heraldry (1988) and Heraldry in National Trust Houses (2001), and was an editor of the Dictionary of British Arms: Medieval Ordinary (4 vols, 1992–2014).[24][25] A fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, he was appointed LVO in 1996, CVO in 2011 and KCVO in 2021. He has been a Deputy Lieutenant for Lancashire since 2005.[23] [26][27][23]
Henry Edgar Paston-Bedingfeld 1983–1993 Paston-Bedingfeld was born in 1943, the son of Sir Edmund Paston-Bedingfeld, 9th Baronet. He attended Ampleforth College, before becoming a chartered auctioneer in 1968 and a chartered surveyor in 1970.[28] After serving as Rouge Croix between 1983 and 1993, he was successively York Herald, and then (from 2010 until retirement in 2014), Norroy and Ulster King of Arms. From 1984 to 1988 he was also secretary of the Standing Council of the Baronetage.[29] With Peter Gwynn-Jones, he authored Heraldry (1993).[30] Paston-Bedingfeld succeeded his father to the baronetcy in 2011.[31] [32][33]
– (vacant) 1993–1995 –
David Vines White 1995–2004 Born in 1961, White attended Marlborough College, before completing degrees at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and the Courtauld Institute of Art.[34] He was research assistant to Theobald Matthew, Windsor Herald from 1988 to 1994,[35] before he was appointed Rouge Croix in 1995.[36] He was promoted to Somerset Herald in 2004[37] and served as Registrar of the College from 2014 to 2021.[38] In 2021, White was appointed Garter King of Arms,[38] and was in that office during the accession and coronation of Charles III and Camilla.[39] He has been genealogist to the Order of the Bath since 2021 and to the Royal Victorian Order since 2010.[34] He was appointed OStJ in 2021.[40] [36]
– (vacant) 2004–2013 – [41]
John Michael Allen-Petrie 2013–2019 Allen-Petrie was born in Canada in 1980. He attended the Institut d'études politiques de Paris and at the London School of Economics. He worked at the Bank of England before completing a probationary period at the College in the practice of William Hunt, Windsor Herald.[41] In 2019, he was promoted to Windsor Herald in succession to Hunt.[42] Allen-Petrie was appointed an OBE for services to Antigua and Barbuda in 2021,[43] and two years later he was appointed a CStJ.[44] [45][42]
Thomas Andrew Johnston 2023–present Born in Tasmania, Johnston attended The Hutchins School and the University of Tasmania. Before entering the College, he served as an officer in the Australian Army.[46] [47]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Coronation order of service in full". BBC News. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d "Additional Officers", in Walter H. Godfrey and Sir Anthony Wagner, College of Arms, Queen Victoria Street, Survey of London Monographs, vol. 16 (London: Survey of London, 1963), pp. 229-306.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Rouge Croix Pursuivant", in Walter H. Godfrey and Sir Anthony Wagner, College of Arms, Queen Victoria Street, Survey of London Monographs, vol. 16 (London: Survey of London, 1963), pp. 209-219.
  4. ^ "Norroy King of Arms", in Walter H. Godfrey and Sir Anthony Wagner, College of Arms, Queen Victoria Street, Survey of London Monographs, vol. 16 (London: Survey of London, 1963), pp. 101-118.
  5. ^ "Clarenceux King of Arms", in Walter H. Godfrey and Sir Anthony Wagner, College of Arms, Queen Victoria Street, Survey of London Monographs, vol. 16 (London: Survey of London, 1963), pp. 74-101.
  6. ^ "No. 11849". The London Gazette. 14 February 1778. p. 1.
  7. ^ "No. 13642". The London Gazette. 15 April 1794. p. 344.
  8. ^ "No. 15586". The London Gazette. 21 May 1803. p. 605.
  9. ^ "No. 17948". The London Gazette. 12 August 1823. p. 1325.
  10. ^ "No. 19702". The London Gazette. 1 February 1839. p. 190.
  11. ^ "No. 21521". The London Gazette. 14 February 1854. p. 427.
  12. ^ "No. 23152". The London Gazette. 17 August 1866. p. 4593.
  13. ^ "No. 23895". The London Gazette. 10 September 1872. p. 3969.
  14. ^ "No. 24877". The London Gazette. 27 August 1880. p. 4677.
  15. ^ "No. 25736". The London Gazette. 6 September 1887. p. 4825.
  16. ^ "No. 27712". The London Gazette. 9 September 1904. p. 5839.
  17. ^ "No. 29364". The London Gazette. 12 November 1915. p. 11186.
  18. ^ "No. 32717". The London Gazette. 6 June 1922. p. 4328.
  19. ^ "No. 42432". The London Gazette. 8 August 1961. p. 5852.
  20. ^ a b The London Gazette, issue 45066 (24 March 1970), p. 3415.
  21. ^ "No. 47659". The London Gazette. 9 October 1978. p. 11997.
  22. ^ a b "Woodcock, Sir Thomas", Who's Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, 2025). Retrieved 10 June 2025.
  23. ^ a b c "July 2021 Newsletter (No. 65)", College of Arms. Retrieved 10 June 2025.
  24. ^ "Bibliography of Present Officers", College of Arms. Retrieved 10 June 2025.
  25. ^ "Dictionary of British Arms", Boydell and Brewer. Retrieved 10 June 2025.
  26. ^ "No. 47661". The London Gazette. 12 October 1978. p. 12091.
  27. ^ The London Gazette, issue 49155 (1 November 1982), p. 14201.
  28. ^ Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th ed. (London: Burke's Peerage, 2003), vol. 3, p. 3067.
  29. ^ "July 2014 Newsletter (No. 39)", College of Arms. Retrieved 11 June 2025.
  30. ^ "Bibliography of Present Officers", College of Arms. Archived on 28 March 2014.
  31. ^ "Bedingfeld, Sir Henry (Edgar) Paston-", Who's Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, 2025). Retrieved 11 June 2025.
  32. ^ "No. 49291". The London Gazette. 17 March 1983. p. 3737.
  33. ^ The London Gazette, issue 53435 (23 September 1993), p. 15437.
  34. ^ a b "White, David Vines", Who's Who (online ed., Oxford University Press, 2025). Retrieved 10 June 2025.
  35. ^ "David Vines White, Garter King of Arms", The Heraldry Society, 17 July 2021. Retrieved 10 June 2025.
  36. ^ a b "No. 54252". The London Gazette. 28 December 1995. p. 17450.
  37. ^ "November 2004 Newsletter (No. 3)", College of Arms. Retrieved 10 June 2025.
  38. ^ a b "Garter King of Arms", College of Arms, 2 July 2021. Retrieved 10 June 2025.
  39. ^ Westminster Abbey, The Coronation of Their Majesties King Charles III and Queen Camilla (London: Westminster Abbey, 2023), p. 17.
  40. ^ "Order of St John", The London Gazette, 27 September 2021. Retrieved 10 June 2025.
  41. ^ a b "New Rouge Croix Pursuivant appointed". College of Arms. 26 July 2013. Retrieved 23 January 2016.
  42. ^ a b "Windsor Herald". College of Arms. 13 July 2019. Archived from the original on 13 July 2019. Retrieved 13 July 2019.
  43. ^ "January 2021 Newsletter (No. 63)", College of Arms. Retrieved 10 June 2025.
  44. ^ "Order of St John". The Gazette. Retrieved 12 May 2023.
  45. ^ "No. 60665". The London Gazette. 23 October 2013. p. 20913.
  46. ^ "Rouge Croix Pursuivant", College of Arms, 21 February 2023. Retrieved 10 June 2025.
  47. ^ "No. 63979". The London Gazette. 24 February 2023. p. 3638.

Further reading

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  • The College of Arms, Queen Victoria Street : being the sixteenth and final monograph of the London Survey Committee, Walter H. Godfrey, assisted by Sir Anthony Wagner, with a complete list of the officers of arms, prepared by H. Stanford London, (London, 1963)
  • A History of the College of Arms &c, Mark Noble, (London, 1804)
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