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The
late Barry George
Harden of Cowdenknowes
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Registered: The
International Register
of Arms, 12th December
2006. Registration No.
0032.
Arms:
Azure,
on a fess embattled,
counter-embattled
Gules fimbriated Or
between in chief three
flowers of Cytisus
Proper and in base a
horse salient, a cross
crosslet Argent.
Crest:
On a
Wreath of the Liveries
is set for Crest a
Demi-horse Argent.
Motto:
Sapientia
Cursus Vires.
Grant:
Court
of the Lord Lyon, 28th
June 2005. Lyon
Register, volume 86,
folio 22.
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The Lyon Court grant
of 28th June 2005 was
founded upon the
armiger's ownership of
the barony of
Cowdenknowes and
featured those
additaments due to him
at that time in right
of him being a
Scottish feudal baron.
During the latter part
of 2006 the armiger
undertook a private
arrangement to
surrender the barony
to his son Mark John
Harden who is now the
baron of Cowdenknowes.
Following the transfer
of the barony to his
son, Mr. Harden
requested that his
armorial bearings be
shown simpliciter.
In
creating these arms
the armiger was faced
with the difficulty of
a 'blank canvas', as
he was the first
Harden ever to be
granted arms in
Scotland.
The first task he
wanted to undertake
was to highlight the
geographical position
of the Barony in the
Borders of Scotland
and so the
counter-embattled fess
represents the
turbulent history of
the Scottish- English
borders being
continually
'embattled' on both
sides for centuries.
Gules represents the
blood which was spilt
on both sides during
that time.
The cross-crosslet
Argent was a welcomed
suggestion by the Lord
Lyon as a reference to
the armiger's maternal
grandfather George
Cross, who was a RSM
in the 1st Battalion
Scots Guards and
served the regiment
for forty years.
The Cytisus Flowers or
'Scotch Broom' in the
chief is a new charge.
This flower was made
famous in the old
Scottish ballad 'The
Broom of
Cowdenknowes', and was
felt to be the perfect
way to reference the
Barony of Cowdenknowes
in the Arms for all
time.
Also
included is references
to the area where the
armiger was raised and
to his father's regiment
The Queen's Own Royal
West Kent Regiment, of
which he was a long
serving and decorated
soldier, the armiger
decided to place in the
base 'Invicta', the
White Horse of Kent,
which was also the crest
badge of the regiment.
Invicta, in a demi-beast
form is the beast set in
the armiger's crest.
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