The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_of_Arms" id="mwRw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="College of Arms">College of Arms</a> is formally incorporated by <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Charter" id="mwSA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Royal Charter">Royal Charter</a> signed by King <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_III_of_England" id="mwSQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Richard III of England">Richard III of England</a>.<sup about="#mwt45" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"}}' id="cite_ref-7" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_2#cite_note-7" id="mwSg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 7;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwSw">[7]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"><cite about="#mwt42" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFFox-Davies1904">Fox-Davies, Arthur Charles (1904). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=rfhYAAAAYAAJ" id="mwBwE" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwBwI">The Art of Heraldry: An Encyclopedia of Armory</i></a>. London: T.C. &amp; E.C. Jack. p.<span id="mwBwM" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>22.</cite><span about="#mwt42" class="Z3988" id="mwBwQ" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=The+Art+of+Heraldry%3A+An+Encyclopedia+of+Armory&amp;rft.place=London&amp;rft.pages=22&amp;rft.pub=T.C.+%26+E.C.+Jack&amp;rft.date=1904&amp;rft.aulast=Fox-Davies&amp;rft.aufirst=Arthur+Charles&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DrfhYAAAAYAAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMarch+2"></span></span>