{"id":198,"date":"2008-11-11T13:35:46","date_gmt":"2008-11-11T13:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/archives\/198"},"modified":"2008-11-13T17:24:13","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T17:24:13","slug":"arms-in-early-florida-pedro-menendez-de-aviles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/archives\/198","title":{"rendered":"Arms in early Florida: Pedro Men\u00e9ndez de Avil\u00e9s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>[UPDATED: better, credited photo of the modern painting of Don Pedro.]<\/i><\/p>\n<p>We New Englanders, and Anglos generally, have neglected the other colonies in our search for armigerous early settlers in the colonies that would become the United States.  (This is the mandate behind the <i>Roll of Arms<\/i> compiled by the Committee on Heraldry of the NEHGS.) In over a hundred years of active compilation of the <i>Roll<\/i> (now with over 800 arms in it), the early colonists of Florida, Louisiana, and California (or other parts of Nueva Espa\u00f1a or Nouvelle France) have been entirely overlooked\u2014at least the Dutch settlers of Nieuw Amsterdam have been represented to a degree.<\/p>\n<p>Casting about in early Florida gets us to the Almirante <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pedro_Men\u00e9ndez_de_Avil\u00e9s\">Pedro Men\u00e9ndez de Avil\u00e9s<\/a> (1519-1574), first colonial governor, founder of Saint Augustine.<\/p>\n<div align='center'><img src='https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/menende1_sm.jpg'\/><br \/>\n<i>Painting by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.menendez-art.com\/\">Mark Menendez of Andrews, North Carolina<\/a>, <br \/> now at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.missionandshrine.org\/\">Missi\u00f3n Nombre de Dios<\/a> in St. Augustine, and <br \/>\nreproduced here with Mark&#8217;s permission, and based on this <br \/>\n sixteenth-century engraving after a now-lost portrait by Titian:<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/nltaylor.net\/sketchbook\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/pm_engraving.jpg'\/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>One remarkable thing is that his <b>own coat of arms<\/b> survives, painted on a panel from his original coffin:<br \/><!--more--><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div align='center'><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flmnh.ufl.edu\/histarch\/featured_object.htm\"><img src='http:\/\/www.flmnh.ufl.edu\/histarch\/Images\/featured_object\/menendez_headboard.jpg'\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>As this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flmnh.ufl.edu\/histarch\/featured_object.htm\">online page on this from the Florida Museum of Natural History<\/a> shows, this panel with coat of arms was taken from his own coffin at the church of Avil\u00e9s (Asturias, Spain) and given to the people and diocese of Saint Augustine in 1924.  One cannot find a better provenance for a coat of arms than that!  Interestingly the coat shows four quarters of which only two (the first and third) are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.staugustine.com\/images\/022003\/news07.jpg\">sometimes now used<\/a>.  It does seem that the arms are related to those of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayto-aviles.es\/AytoAvilesPortal\/portal\/cn\/NavSec\/Documento?ITEM=c373e9100cba14702537001279d2e011\">city of Avil\u00e9s itself<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[UPDATED: better, credited photo of the modern painting of Don Pedro.] We New Englanders, and Anglos generally, have neglected the other colonies in our search for armigerous early settlers in the colonies that would become the United States. 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