page_title: Cap of maintenance
hierarchical_section_title: Cap of maintenance
caption_attribution_description: English: Garter stall-plate of Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle (d.1542), KG, nominated to the Order in 1524. The main shield shows quarterly of four: 1st: Quarterly France modern and England (royal arms); 2nd &amp; 3rd: de Burgh; 4th: Mortimer; over-all a bend sinister; over all an inescutcheon of pretence of Grey, Viscounts Lisle, quarterly of six, 1st: Barry of six argent and azure in chief three torteaux (Grey, Viscount Lisle); 2nd: Barry of argent and azure, an orle of martlets gules (Valence, Earl of Pembroke)(Byrne, Lisle Letters, vol.1, appendix 9: Roger de Grey, 1st Baron Grey de Ruthyn married Elizabeth Hastings, daughter of John Lord Hastings by his wife Isabel de Valence, daughter of William de Valence); 3rd: Gules, seven mascles or conjoined 3, 3, 1 (Ferrers of Groby); 4th: Gules, a lion rampant within a bordure engrailed or (Talbot); 5th: Gules, a fesse between six crosses crosslet or (Beauchamp); 6th: Gules, a lion statant guardant argent crowned or (Lisle)(Byrne, Lisle Letters, Vol.1, p.178) Crest: On a cap of maintenance gules turned up ermine, and inscribed in front with the letter A, a genet guardant per pale sable and argent, standing between two broom-stalks proper.(Byrne, Lisle Letters, vol.1, p.177)
context_page_description: A cap of maintenance, known in heraldic language as a chapeau gules turned up ermine, is a ceremonial cap of crimson velvet lined with ermine, which is worn or carried by certain persons as a sign of nobility or special honour. It is worn with the high part to the fore, the tapering tail behind. It may substitute for the torse in the heraldic achievement of a person of special honour granted the privilege by the monarch. It thus appears in such cases on top of the helm and below the crest. It does not, however, feature in the present royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom, which shows the royal crest upon the royal crown, itself upon the royal helmet.
context_section_description: A cap of maintenance, known in heraldic language as a chapeau gules turned up ermine, is a ceremonial cap of crimson velvet lined with ermine, which is worn or carried by certain persons as a sign of nobility or special honour. It is worn with the high part to the fore, the tapering tail behind. It may substitute for the torse in the heraldic achievement of a person of special honour granted the privilege by the monarch. It thus appears in such cases on top of the helm and below the crest. It does not, however, feature in the present royal coat of arms of the United Kingdom, which shows the royal crest upon the royal crown, itself upon the royal helmet.
caption: Position of cap of maintenance within a heraldic achievement, namely on top of the helm and below the crest. It thus takes the place of the torse. Garter stall plate of Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle.
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