Miscellaneous - Deputy Earl Marshal's Warrant for Recording the Royal Proclamation Changing the Dynastic Name to Windsor [1917-08-24]
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Title
Miscellaneous - Deputy Earl Marshal's Warrant for Recording the Royal Proclamation Changing the Dynastic Name to Windsor [1917-08-24]
Subject
Royal Family
Description
Warrant of Lord Edmund Talbot directing the Officers of Arms to record the Royal Proclamation of King George V and ancillary material.
Creator
Lord Edmund Talbot (Deputy Earl Marshal)
Source
College of Arms I77/316
Date
1917-08-24
Contributor
Mark Scott
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Transcript
Whereas The Right Honourable Arthur Baron Stamfordham His Majesty's Principal Private Secretary, hath by letter bearing date the Seventeenth day of August instant, signified unto me that His Majesty in Council hath been pleased to declare and announce that, for the future the Name of the Royal House and Family shall be Windsor and also stated that His Majesty on behalf of Himself and His Family relinquished for the future all German Titles and Honours, and directed that the said signification of His Majesty's Pleasure be recorded in the College of Arms.
I, Edmund Bernard Talbor (commonly called Lord Edmund Bernard Talbot) Member of the Royal Victorian Order, Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, Deputy to the Most Noble Bernard Marmaduke, Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal of England, to the end that the same may be observed and kept and that you and all others upon occasion may take full notice and have knowledge thereof, do hereby authorize and require you to cause the said Proclamation, His Lordship's said letter and these Presents to be recorded in the College of Arms accordingly. For which this shall be your Warrant. Given under my hand and the seal of the Earl Marshal this twenty fourth day of August 1917.
To the Kings Heralds and
Pursuivants of Arms
I, Edmund Bernard Talbor (commonly called Lord Edmund Bernard Talbot) Member of the Royal Victorian Order, Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, Deputy to the Most Noble Bernard Marmaduke, Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal and Hereditary Marshal of England, to the end that the same may be observed and kept and that you and all others upon occasion may take full notice and have knowledge thereof, do hereby authorize and require you to cause the said Proclamation, His Lordship's said letter and these Presents to be recorded in the College of Arms accordingly. For which this shall be your Warrant. Given under my hand and the seal of the Earl Marshal this twenty fourth day of August 1917.
Edmund B. Talbot
D. E. M.
To the Kings Heralds and
Pursuivants of Arms
Ornamentation
This text is taken from a handwritten transcript of the document and may not reflect the formatting of the original.
Citation
Lord Edmund Talbot (Deputy Earl Marshal), “Miscellaneous - Deputy Earl Marshal's Warrant for Recording the Royal Proclamation Changing the Dynastic Name to Windsor [1917-08-24],” Corpus of British Administrative Instruments, accessed October 20, 2026, https://cbaionline.org/corpus/items/show/407.