Chains

From the late fourteenth century, chains or collars incorporating armorial devices, and sometimes with pendant livery badges, were worn to indicate allegiances to a royal or noble house or political cause. It is likely that collars were originally granted as marks of favour.

 

1. Rose and Sunburst Collar

A Yorkist collar comprising alternate suns and roses, showing the white boar for followers of Richard III.

 

2. Collar of S’s

A Lancastrian collar believed originally to have been worn and given by John of Gaunt, and later by Henry IV, sometimes worn with a pendant of the swan of du Bohun, some illustrations show a round pendant.

 

3. Burgundian Collar

A Burgundian collar with pendant of the golden fleece.

 

4. Rose and Sunburst Collar

Again a Yorkist collar, this one having a pendant of the white lion for Mortimer.

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