This rhyme, which describes King Edward I.’s expedition to Scotland in July 1300, and his siege of the Castle of Caerlaverock near Dumfries; is of great interest to students of heraldry for the descriptions it contains of the banners and shields of more than one hundred nobles and knights.

Caerlaverock Roll The Roll of Caerlaverock is a poem in its original form, which described the arms of the participants in the Siege of Caerlaverock Castle. Lincoln | Warenne | The King | The Prince of Wales

Dec 23, 2021 · The Caerlaverock Poem is a poem in Anglo-Norman French about Edward I's siege of Caerlaverock. It contains a description of the coats of arms used by knights who took part, and the images on this page are based on that description. This is one of the earliest records of English coats of arms.

The Caerlaverock Poem. This is an occasional roll, listing those present at the siege of Caerlaverock, Dumfries, in July 1300, by the forces of Edward I. It was written at or about this time. The poem is in the form of rhyming couplets, 956 lines in length and containing 106 coats.

May 11, 2017 · An important source for the ensuing campaign is an anonymous poem, The Song of Caerlaverock, which describes the early part of Edward’s expedition. The poet, who was probably a herald, took pains to record the names of the …

May 1, 2007 · The siege of Carlaverock in the XXVIII Edward I. A.D. MCCC; with the arms of the earls, barons, and knights, who were present on the occasion; with a translation, a history of the castle, and memoirs of the personages commemorated by the poet.

Jun 17, 2017 · Caerlaverock Castle is distinctive in many ways – for a start it is triangular! It is also distinctive in that it was the site of a siege between the attacking King Edward I of England and the defending Scots in 1300.

Title: The Siege of Caerlaverock Castle. [A poem.] Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items …

The first part is the person’s name as recorded in the Poem. The second part is the modern form of the person’s name. The third part is the blazon of the arms from the Poem.

The Poem describes the banners of the first 89 people, and the shields of the remainder, is also suggestive (especially considering the two main ranks of knight at the time were ‘knights banneret’- those knights entitled to a full banner, and ‘knights bachelor’- those who were not [14]).