EDWARD VI., KING OF ENGLAND, FRANCE, AND IRELAND
Arms.—Quarterly, France and England as used by Henry VIII. (q.v.).
Crown.—Royal.
Initials.—E. R. (Edvardus Rex).
This coat-of-arms is upon a binding made for Edward VI. by Thomas Berthelet, who had been Royal Bookbinder to Henry VIII. It has been, however, transferred to a volume which belonged to Queen Elizabeth.
[Public Acts. London, 1559.]
Variety.—Quarterly, France and England as used by Henry VIII. (q.v.).
Crown.—Royal.
Initials.—E. R. (Edvardus Rex).
[Andreasi. De Amplitudine misericordiae Dei oratio. Basileae, 1550.]
Badge.—A daisy ppr., crowned or.
The daisy was used as a badge by Edward VI., in memory of his great-grandmother, Margaret Beaufort, mother of Henry VII.
[Belief in Christ. London, 1550.]
Badge.—The triple ostrich plume arg., of the Prince of Wales, within a princely coronet or.
Motto.—Ihc (sic) dien.
Initials.—E. P. (Edward, Prince.)
[List of Cities, etc., named in Trogus Pompeius and in the epistles of Cicero; addressed by Peter Olivarius to Edward, Prince of Wales. 1546, MS.]
Prince Edward (born 12th October 1537, died 6th July 1553) was the son of Henry VIII. and Queen Jane Seymour, his third wife. He succeeded his father on the throne of England in 1547, and left the crown by will to his cousin Lady Jane Grey, the result of which was that her relatives endeavoured to place her upon the throne and she was beheaded in 1554 by order of Queen Mary. Although the Prince of Wales's plumes were used on the bindings made for Prince Edward, he never was Prince of Wales. The majority of his bindings were made by Thomas Berthelet, and they came to the British Museum with the rest of the old Royal Library in 1757.
The supporters used by Edward VI. were the golden lion and the red dragon, as they were used by Henry VIII. after 1528, but they do not show on any of his bindings as far as is at present known.