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unusual facts about Ulster King of Arms



Genealogical Office

The office was constituted on 1 April 1943 as successor to the Ulster King of Arms, established during the Tudor period of the Kingdom of Ireland in 1552.

Richard Gardiner

, Ulster King of Arms, London, 1883, p.

Sliocht Cormaic of Dunguile

Playing a crucial role in exposing the impostor Terence McCarthy was the claim by Barry Trant McCarthy, a great nephew of Samuel Trant McCarthy, whose pedigree was accepted and registered in 1906 by the Ulster King of Arms, Sir Arthur Vicars, who also determined the McCarthys of Srugrena to be the senior surviving descendants of the medieval royal family.

William Betham

Sir William Betham (1779–1853) was an English herald and antiquarian, the Ulster King of Arms from 1820 until his death in 1853.

William III de Cantilupe

, Ulster King of Arms (compiler).


see also

Nevile Wilkinson

Most of Ulster King of Arms's work was heraldic rather than genealogical, although collecting genealogies and proving pedigrees were essential to ensure that arms were used and inherited by the rightful heirs.