Events

The Heraldry Society holds a variety of events throughout the year, many of them open to the public. Our lectures take place at the RAF Club in central London and also online via Zoom. Why not join us and find out what heraldry is all about?

2 July 2025

Five Centuries in One Hour and Five Meters: The Pedigree Roll of the Darell Family of England as a Bank of Evidence (1637)

Coats of arms were intended, among other things, to showcase the status of a noble in a variety of ways: on buildings, on funeral monuments, on dishes, and even on gutters. The pinnacle of the show-off is an elaborate heraldic family tree: A nobleman who could afford it, would commission a heraldic artist to draw a fine genealogical tree for him on a parchment.
At first, in the fifteenth century, family trees were designed in basic drawing, sometimes without any arms. From the sixteenth century onwards, impressive family trees were produced – whether in the form of a roll or of a book. They included names, family connections, sometimes figures, and of course coats of arms.

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