Draft:Armorial of Archbishops of Canterbury

The Archbishop of Canterbury is the Primate of All England and the senior-most diocesan bishop in the Church of England.

Archbishops appointed by the Normans

Arms	Name of Archbishop and heraldic blazon
	Lanfranc, Archbishop 1070-1089 Escutcheon: Party per saltire Azure and Gules a cross bottony on a globe Or.
	Anselm, Archbishop 1093-1109 Escutcheon: Argent a cross Sable between twelve guttees du sang.
	Ralph d'Escures, Archbishop 1114-1122 Escutcheon: Sable a cross patriarchal Argent issuing from the base.
	William de Corbeil, Archbishop 1123-1136 Escutcheon: Azure a bend wavy in sinister chief a cross coupé Argent.
	Theobald of Bec, Archbishop 1138-1161 Escutcheon: Or two bars Azure a chief dancettée Gules

Archbishops appointed by the Tudors

Arms	Name of Bishop and heraldic blazon
	John Morton, Archbishop 1486-1500 Escutcheon: Quarterly Gules and Ermine 1st & 4th a goat's head erased Argent.
	Henry Deane, Archbishop 1501-1503 Escutcheon: Argent on a chevron Gules between three ravens three crosiers erect Or.
	William Warham, Archbishop 1503-15032 Escutcheon: Gules a fess Or in chief a goat's head erased in base three escallops Argent. Motto: Auxiulium Meum A Deo
	Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop 1533-1555 Escutcheon: Quarterly 1st & 4th Argent on a chevron Azure between three pelicans Sable three cinquefoils Or 2nd Gules six lions rampant in pile a bordure Or 3rd Argent five fusils in fess Gules each charge with an escallop Or. Motto: Nosce Teipsum Ad Deum
	Reginald Pole, Archbishop 1556-1558 Escutcheon: Quarterly of eight 1st per pale Sable and Or a saltire engrailed counterchanged 2nd Gules three lions passant guardant Or 3rd Gules a saltire and label Argent 4th Gules a fess between six crosslets Or 5th chequy Or and Azure a chevron Ermine 6th Argent three lozenges in fess Gules 7th Or an eagle displayed Vert 8th Or three chevrons Gules. Motto: Estote Prudentes Sicut Serpentes Et Innocentes Sicut Columbae
	Matthew Parker, Archbishop 1559-1575 Escutcheon: Gules on a chevron between three keys Argent three estoiles of the field. Motto: Mundus Transit
	Edmund Grindal, Archbishop 1575-1583 Escutcheon: Quarterly Argent and Azure a cross quarterly Ermines and Or between four doves collared counterchanged.
	Edmund Grindal, Archbishop 1583-1604 Escutcheon: Argent on a cross flory Sable four bezants. Crest: From a coronet Or a lion's gamb Gules holding a garland of bay leaves. Motto: Vincit Qui Patitur

Archbbishops appointed by the Stuarts

Arms	Name of Bishop and heraldic blazon
	Richard Bancroft, Archbishop 1604-1610 Escutcheon: Or on a bend between six crosslets Azure three garbs of the field. Motto: Volente Deo
	George Abbot, Archbishop 1611-1633 Escutcheon: Gules a chevron between three pears pendent Or. Motto: Clamamus Abba Pater
	William Laud, Archbishop 1633-1645 Escutcheon: Sable on a chevron between three estoiles Or three crosses patee fitchy Gules.
	William Juxon, Archbishop 1660-1663 Escutcheon: Or a cross Gules between four moors' heads affrontee couped at the shoulders and wreathed Gules. Crest: A moor's head affrontee with earrings and an Eastern crown Or.
	Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop 1663-1677 Escutcheon: Argent on a chevron Gules three sheldrakes of the field on a canton Gules a rose Or.
	William Sancroft, Archbishop 1678-1691 Escutcheon: Argent on a chevron between three crosses patee Gules three doves of the field. Crest: On a wreath a snake Vert in its mouth a cross Gules.
	John Tillotson, Archbishop 1691-1694 Escutcheon: Azure a bend cotised between two garbs Or.
	Thomas Tenison, Archbishop 1695-1715 Escutcheon: Gules three leopards faces Or jessant-de-lys Azure surtout a bend engrailed Argent voided Azure.

Archbishops appointed by the Hanoverians

Arms	Name of Bishop and heraldic blazon
	William Wake, Archbishop 1716-1737 Escutcheon: Or a trefoil Vert between two bars Gules in chief three torteaux.
	John Potter, Archbishop 1737-1747 Escutcheon: Sable a fess Ermine between three cinquefoils Argent.
	Thomas Herring, Archbishop 1747-1757 Escutcheon: Gules crusilly three herrings haurient Argent.
	Matthew Hutton, Archbishop 1757-1758 Escutcheon: Gules on a fess Or between three cushions lozengeways Ermine tasselled Or three fleurs-de-lys of the field.
	Thomas Secker, Archbishop 1758-1768 Escutcheon: Gules a bend engrailed between two bulls' heads couped Or.
	Frederick Cornwallis, Archbishop 1768-1783 Escutcheon: Sable guttee d'eau on a fess Argent three choughs.
	John Moore, Archbishop 1783-1805 Escutcheon: Argent on a chevron Sable between three moors' heads in profile habited Gules collared Vert two swords hilted Or.
	Charles Manners-Sutton, Archbishop 1805-1828 Escutcheon: Quarterly 1st & 4th Or a canton Sable 2nd & 3rd Or two bars Azure a chief quarterly Azure two fleurs-de-lys Or and Gules a lion passant guardant Or.
	William Howley, Archbishop 1828-1848 Escutcheon: Azure an eagle displayed Erminois on his breast a cross flory Gules.
	John Bird Sumner, Archbishop 1848-1862 Escutcheon: Ermine two chevrons Gules.
	Charles Longley, Archbishop 1862-1868 Escutcheon: Quarterly 1st & 4th quarterly per fess indented Or and Azure 2nd & 3rd Argent on a chevron Sable three bezants.
	Archibald Campbell Tait, Archbishop 1868-1882 Escutcheon: Quarterly 1st & 4th Argent a saltire and chief engrailed Gules 2nd & 3rd two ravens suspended by the neck from one arrow.
	Edward White Benson, Archbishop 1883-1896 Escutcheon: Argent between four bendlets Gules a quatrefoil between two trefoils slipped in bend Sable.
	Frederick Temple, Archbishop 1896-1902 Escutcheon: Quarterly 1st & 4th Or an eagle displayed sable (for Leofric, Earl of Mercia) 2nd & 3rd Argent two bars sable each charged with three martlets Or (Temple).

Archbishops appointed by the Windsors

  Alive

  Incumbent

Arms	Name of Bishop and heraldic blazon
	Randall Davidson (later Baron Davidson of Lambeth), Archbishop 1903-1928 Escutcheon: Azure on a chevron Or between two estoiles in chief and a pheon in base Argent a fleur-de-lys Gules.
	Cosmo Gordon Lang (later Baron Lang of Lambeth), Archbishop 1928-42 Escutcheon: Quarterly per fess indented Argent and Sable in the first quarter an open book Proper leaved Gules in the last quarter two dock leaves Vert.
	William Temple, Archbishop 1942-1944 Escutcheon: Quarterly 1st & 4th Or an eagle displayed sable (for Leofric, Earl of Mercia) 2nd & 3rd Argent two bars sable, each charged with three martlets Or (Temple).
	Geoffrey Fisher (later Baron Fisher of Lambeth), Archbishop 1945-1961 Escutcheon: Argent a fess wavy between three fleur-de-lys Sable. Crest: A king's fisher Proper holding in the dexter claw a fleur-de-lys Sable.
	Michael Ramsey (later Baron Ramsey of Canterbury), Archbishop 1961-1974 Arms unknown.
	Donald Coggan (later Baron Coggan), Archbishop 1974-1980 Arms unknown.
	Robert Runcie (later Baron Runcie), Archbishop 1980-1991 Escutcheon: Argent on a fess Sable between three roses Gules barbed and seeded Proper as many crosses patonce also Argent Crest: A horse statant Argent crined maned unguled and the tail Sable gorged with a chaplet of roses Gules barbed and seeded Proper resting the dexter foreleg upon a millrind Gold
	George Carey (later Baron Carey of Clifton), Archbishop 1991-2002 Arms unknown.
	Rowan Williams (later Baron Williams of Oystermouth), Archbishop 2002-2012 Escutcheon: Per pale Gules and Azure a chevron Ermine between three lions passant guardant armed within roundels Or all counterchanged. Motto: Cultus Dei Sapientia Hominis (The Worship of God is the Wisdom of Man)
	Justin Welby, Archbishop 2012-2024 Arms disputed.
	Sarah Mullally, Archbishop since 2026 Arms unknown.

References

For Archbishops from Lanfranc to William Temple, see The Blazon of Episcopacy by William Kirkpatrick Riland Bedford (1897), pages 1-8.
The Armorial Bearings of the Bishops of Chester, compiled by the Cheshire Heraldry Society

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