White boar

[1] Edward appears to have shared use of the badge, either from Richard's accession to the throne, or his own appointment as Prince of Wales, both in 1483, to his death the next year.

The Norse god Yngve-Frey had a "radiant" boar Gullinbursti whom he used as a horse, taking Freyr faster than any other riding animal could.

The boar Gullinbursti was hence the old Norse family name of the bloodline since Norwegian Rollo of Normandy (Hrolfr Ragnvaldsson) became the ancestor of the Plantagenet.

The sole remaining example is a pendant white boar on a Yorkist livery collar carved in the alabaster effigy of Sir Ralph Fitzherbert, who died in Richard's reign in 1483.

A number of metal badges, for pinning to the chest or a hat, have survived in lead, silver, and gilded copper high relief, the last found at Richard's home of Middleham Castle in Yorkshire, and very likely worn by one of his household when he was Duke of Gloucester.

White Boar badge with Richard III 's motto Loyaulte me lie ("Loyalty binds me").
Richard and his son standing on boars in a contemporary heraldic roll by John Rous
The white boar badge of Richard III as pendant to a Yorkist livery collar on the tomb monument of Sir Ralph Fitzherbert (died 1483), in St Mary and St Barlock's Church, Norbury in Derbyshire .