{"id":859,"date":"2011-08-17T08:48:35","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T08:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beerintheevening.com\/?p=859"},"modified":"2011-08-17T08:48:35","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T08:48:35","slug":"the-kings-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.beerintheevening.com\/2011\/08\/17\/the-kings-arms\/","title":{"rendered":"The Kings Arms"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TheWind the Great British history clocks back to the 16th Century and you would have noticed a fair few pubs, inns and taverns with Roman Catholic sentiment titles; \u201cThe Lamb<\/a>\u201d a representation of the innocence of Christ (the Lamb of God), \u201cThe Ark<\/a>\u201d a nod to Noah\u2019s nautical challenge, \u201cThe Cross<\/a>\u201d a symbol of the crucifixion of Christ and a way-point sign for pilgrims and soldiers heading East to Jerusalem. These were historic references to symbols of the holy crusades (1096-1204) and an earlier religious-militarist Britain.<\/p>\n

In 1533 Henry VIII was the charismatic, educated king of the day, famous for his trail of destruction through the female population in a quest for an heir to his throne. It was due to his second marriage that the king incurred the anger of the Pope. Still married to Catherine of Aragon, Henry also attempted to marry Anne Boleyn but the marriage was annulled. In 1534 the Pope ex-communicated England from the Roman Catholic Church because of Henry\u2019s marital affairs. It was no bother to the king though, Henry set up his own church, the Church of England, and assumed himself the title of supreme ruler. In a show of allegiance to the Kings decision, and perhaps so as to not fall ill-of-favour with him, many pubs changed their names, or adopted monarchy associated titles, such as \u201cThe Kings Arms<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201dThe Kings Arms<\/a>\u201d literally means, the King\u2019s Coat of Arms, essentially the kings logo. Emblazoned upon his shield in the heat of battle, if you saw the king\u2019s logo you\u2019d instantly know whether to capture its wearer for ransom, or give your life to protect it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Kings Arms<\/a>\u201d continues to be a very popular British pub name, commemorating Kings of Britain since Henry VIII\u2019s reign. No doubt when Britain receives a new king some pub landlords will continue the patriotic, royalist British custom of celebrating the monarch by reflecting it into their pub name.<\/p>\n

Other pub names that Henry VIII is said to have influenced also include;
\n\u201cThe Bull and Bush<\/a>\u201d celebrating his victory at Boulonge, or “Boulogne Bouche” as it was known. Some pubs named \u201cThe Greyhound<\/a>\u201d were a reflection of Henry\u2019s love of greyhounds, as well as keeping them for sport he had a variation of the royal coat of arms displaying a white greyhound as a charge.<\/p>\n

“The Kings Arms<\/a>\u201d is number 10 in BITEs most popular pub names (2011)<\/a> with 203 pubs in our database using “The Kings Arms<\/a>” in their title, another ambiguous fact is that during the writing of this blog-post without any influence by us, our most popular pub page based on views yesterday (16\/08\/2011) was The Kings Arms, Waterloo<\/a> – BITE users are all in agreement this is “a gem of a pub”.
\nWe\u2019ll be discussing the origins of the other 9 most popular pub names in weekly posts, so stay tuned.\u00a0 If you’ve got any comments feel free to leave them in our comments section below, or join in the conversation on our Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wind the Great British history clocks back to the 16th Century and you would have noticed a fair few pubs, inns and taverns with Roman Catholic sentiment titles; \u201cThe Lamb\u201d a representation of the innocence of Christ (the Lamb of God), \u201cThe Ark\u201d a nod to Noah\u2019s nautical challenge, \u201cThe Cross\u201d a symbol of the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,3,8],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.beerintheevening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.beerintheevening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.beerintheevening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beerintheevening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beerintheevening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beerintheevening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.beerintheevening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beerintheevening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.beerintheevening.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}