Henry Guildford
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Sir Henry Guildford was an English courtier of the reign of King Henry VIII, master of the horse and comptroller of the royal household.
Portrait of Sir Henry Guildford from 1527, by Hans Holbein the Younger. He wears the Collar of the Garter
Christchurch Gate, Canterbury Cathedral, Kent, built 1517, displaying (far left) the arms of Sir Henry Guldeford (d.1532). Quarterly of 4: 1&4: Or, a saltire between four martlets sable; 2&3: Argent, a chief sable overall a bend engrailed gules (Halden). He distinguished himself in the Spanish wars against the Moors, and particularly upon the reduction of Grenada; in consequence of which the canton with the pomegranate was placed as an augmentation to his family arms; the pomegranate being the arms of that kingdom. Henry the Eighth, in the sixteenth year of his reign, granted to him the manor of Hadloe, in this county.
Mary, Sir Henry's second wife, portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger.
Margaret Wotton, Marchioness of Dorset was the second wife of Thomas Grey, Marquess of Dorset, and the mother of his children, including Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk, with whom she engaged in many quar
Sketch of Margaret by Hans Holbein the Younger
Portrait of Margaret Wotton, Marchioness of Dorset, after Hans Holbein the Younger