| 翻訳と辞書 |
| Robert Cooke (officer of arms) ： ウィキペディア英語版 |
Robert Cooke (officer of arms)
Robert Cooke (or Cook) (born c. 1535, died 1592–3)〔''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (2004).〕 was an English Officer of Arms in the reign of Elizabeth I. In the College of Arms, he rose to the rank of Clarenceux King of Arms, serving in that capacity from 1567 until his death in 1592–3. He served as marshal for the state funeral of Sir Philip Sidney in 1587. Cooke was accused by fellow officers of arms of granting arms to unworthy men for personal gain.
==Life and work==
Cooke is supposed to have been the son of a tanner and to have been brought up in the household of Sir Edmund Brudenell, an ardent genealogist. Cooke matriculated as a pensioner in St. John's College, Cambridge, 10 November 1553, earning his BA there in 1557–8.〔 He was appointed Rose Blanche pursuivant extraordinary, 25 January 1561–2〔Stephen 1887, "Robert Cook (herald)".〕 and succeeded William Flower as Chester Herald of Arms four days later.〔〔The patent was sealed 8 February, the date given for the appointment in Maychen's ''Diary''; see Nichols 1848 and Cooper et al. 1861.〕 Both events were recorded in the diary of Henry Machyn, who twice identified Cooke as the servant of Lord Robert Dudley.〔Nichols 1848, January 1561–2.〕 Cooke was promoted to Clarenceux King of Arms on 21 May 1567.〔 Cooke was appointed Acting Garter King of Arms on the death of Sir Gilbert Dethick on 3 October 1584, and served in that capacity until the permanent appointment of Sir Gilbert's son William Dethick on 21 April 1586. As acting Garter, Cooke, assisted by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald, accompanied the Earl of Derby to France to invest King Henri III with the Order of the Garter in 1584.〔〔Raines 1870, pp. x, xiii.〕
As Clarenceux, Cooke was responsible for arranging the funerals of all knights resident south of the River Trent〔Bos, Sanders, Marianne Lange-Meyers, and Jeanine Six, "Sidney's Funeral Portrayed". In Van Dorten et al. 1986, p. 38.〕 In this capacity he oversaw the "magnificent" state funeral at St Paul's Cathedral of Sir Philip Sidney, who died in Flanders on 17 October 1586.〔〔Moule 1822, p. 34.〕 Detailed drawings of the funeral procession on 16 February 1587, with its hundreds of mourners, were published as ''The Procession at the Obsequies of Sir Philip Sydney, Knight, drawn and invented by Thomas Lant, Gentleman, servant to the said honourable Knight, and engraven on copper by Derick Theodore de Brijon, in the city of London. 1587.''〔
Cooke had campaigned to be appointed Garter (with the support of Dudley, by then the powerful Earl of Leicester),〔Cooper 1861, p. 145.〕 and William Dethick, who secured the appointment, later charged Cooke with encroaching on the traditional privileges of Garter King of Arms. In 1595, after Cooke's death, William Segar, Norroy King of Arms, sided with Dethick, criticising Cooke for his inability to write clearly and for making many grants of arms to "base and unworthy persons for his private gaine onely."〔〔Wagner 1967, p. 207.〕〔Rockett 2000.〕 Ralph Brooke, York Herald and sometimes deputy to Cooke, complained in 1614 that Cooke had granted more than 500 new coats of arms during his tenure.〔
抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』
■ウィキペディアで「Robert Cooke (officer of arms)」の詳細全文を読む
スポンサード リンク
| 翻訳と辞書 : 翻訳のためのインターネットリソース |
Copyright(C) kotoba.ne.jp 1997-2016. All Rights Reserved.
|
|