Sentence examples for pursuivant from inspiring English sources

A short while later, the Queen's procession entered the chamber, headed by the fitzalan pursuivant extraordinary and the rouge croix pursuivant.

The state opening of parliament isn't the greatest of adverts for a one-nation government: the collars of the men who hold the office of Portcullis Pursuivant, Maltravers Herald Extraordinary and Clarenceux King of Arms are only of the most aristocratic white.

From 1743 until his death he was Blue Mantle Pursuivant in the Heralds Collegee, and he lived there during the last years of his life.

Bruce serves the Queen in the role of Fitzalan Pursuivant of Arms Extraordinary; in state funerals and the like, he processes wearing a tunic decorated with the Queen's armorial bearings, looking like the Jack of Diamonds.

The episode Witchsmeller Pursuivant, from the first series, dealt with the medieval superstition of witch hunting.

After eight years of fancying myself as a DJ – The Funk Pursuivant – I realised that I'm unable to grasp even the simplest of techniques.

It was always good to catch up with the Maltravers Herald Extraordinary and the Rouge Croix Pursuivant.

He always displayed a great interest in genealogy, and the next year was appointed Kintyre Pursuivant of Arms, one of the officers of the court of the Lord Lyon, the body responsible for questions of succession in the peerage and heraldry in Edinburgh, serving for 16 years.

Pursuivants are "followers," or junior heralds.

Below him are 13 officers of arms: three kings of arms (Garter, Norroy and Ulster, and Clarenceux), six heralds (Windsor, Richmond, York, Lancaster, Chester, and Somerset), and four pursuivants (Rouge Dragon, Rouge Croix, Bluemantle, and Portcullis).

In Scotland the Lord Lyon has three heralds (Albany, Marchmont, and Rothesay) and four pursuivants (Carrick, Kintyre, Unicorn, and Ormond).