Wales Herald Extraordinary
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Wales Herald of Arms Extraordinary (Herodr Arbennig Cymru in Welsh) is a current English officer of arms extraordinary. As such, Wales is a royal herald, but is not a member of the chapter of the College of Arms. There was a Wales Herald in the late fourteenth century, but the office was shortlived. It was re-established in 1963 as an officer of arms extraordinary. The first appointee was Francis Jones. The badge dates from 1967 and depicts a treasured medieval Welsh possession, the Croes Naid--a cross heavily gilded and jewelled and said to contain a fragment of the true cross of Jesus Christ. The badge is blazoned Issuant from an open Royal Crown of the 13th century Or a representation of a Croes Naid also Or jewelled proper.
The current Wales Herald of Arms Extraordinary is Michael Powell Siddons, MA MB ChirB (Cambridge) FSA.
