Bluemantle Pursuivant of Arms in Ordinary is a junior officer of arms of the College of Arms in London.

The office is reputed to have been created by Henry V to serve the Order of the Garter, but there is no documentary evidence of this. There is, however, mention of an envoy styled Blewmantle going to France in 1448. The first Bluemantle to be mentioned by name is found in a record circa 1484. The badge of office, probably deriving from the original blue silk material of the Order of the Garter, is blazoned as A Blue Mantle lined Ermine cords and tassels Or.

A 19th-century Bluemantle Pursuivant founded Bluemantle's Cricket Club.www.bluemantles.com

The incumbent is James Lawson Broun, who was appointed on 25 August 2026.

Holders of the office Arms Name Date of appointmentRefJohn Ashwell or Haswell(Henry V)John Ashwell(Henry V)Thomas More(1419)Thomas Collyer(Henry V)William Hawkeslowe(Henry VI)John Horsley(Henry VI)Richard Stanton(Henry VI)James Collyer or Collier(Henry VI)John Ferrant(Henry VI)Roger Mallett(Henry VI)Henry French or Franke(Edward IV)Richard Champneys(Edward IV)Thomas Hollingsworth(Edward IV)Roger Bromley(Edward IV)John Brice(Edward IV)Thomas French or Franke(Edward IV)Rowland Playnford(Edward IV)Laurence Alford(1484)... Banastre1503–1507Francis Dyes1508–1510Ralph Lago1510–1522Thomas Bysley1522–1528John Hutton1528–1528John Narboone1528–1536Richard Ratcliffe1536–1543William Harvey1543–1545Edmund Atkynson1545–1550Nicholas Narboone1550–1557John Hollingworth1557–1559Richard Turpin1559–1565Nicholas Dethick1565–1583Humphry Hales1583–1587James Thomas1587–1589Robert Treswell1589–1597Mercury Patten1597–1611Sir Henry St George1611–1616Sampson Lennard1616–1633William Ryley1633–1641Robert Browne1641–1646John Watson1646–1660Robert Chaloner1660–1665Richard Hornebrooke1665–1667Thomas Segar1669–1670John Gibbon1670–1719James Greene1719–1737Thomas Browne1737–1743John Pine1743–1747Sir Ralph Bigland1747–1752John Ward1752–1761Sir Isaac Heard1761–1762Henry Pujolas1762–1763Peter Dore1763–1764George Browne1764–1767George Harrison1767–1774Sir Charles Townley1774–1781Sir Edmund Lodge1781–1793Sir George Nayler1793–1794John Havers1794–1797Francis Martin, Jr.1797–1819Sir William Woods1819–1831George Harrison Rogers-Harrison1831–1849Henry Murray Lane1849–1864Henry Harrington Molyneux-Seel1864–1873Edward Bellasis1873–1882Charles Harold Athill1882–1889Gordon Ambrose de Lisle Lee1889–1905Sir Gerald Woods Wollaston1906–1919Philip Plantagenet Cary1919–1923Edmund Clarence Richard Armstrong1923–1923Aubrey John Toppin1923–1932Richard Preston Graham-Vivian1933–1947James Arnold Frere1948–1956John Philip Brook Brooke-Little1956–1967Francis Sedley Andrus1970–1972Sir Peter Llewellyn Gwynn-Jones1973–1983Terence David McCarthy1983–1991Robert John Baptist Noel1992–1999Michael Peter Desmond O'Donoghue2005–2012Mark John Rosborough Scott2019–2024James van Someren Peill2024–2026James Lawson Broun2026–present

See also Heraldry Officer of Arms

References Citations

Bibliography 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)

External links The College of Arms CUHGS Officer of Arms Index