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Portrait of Sir Henry Guildford from 1527, by Hans Holbein the Younger. He wears the Collar of the Garter

Arms of Sir Henry Guildford, KG

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.^[1]

Sir Henry Guildford, KG (1489–1532) was an English courtier of the reign of King Henry VIII, master of the horse and comptroller of the royal household.

^ Willement, Thomas, Heraldic Notices of Canterbury Cathedral, p.1