English: "S(ire) Watier Pavely" (Gautier Pavely). Sir w:Walter Paveley, KG, one of the Founder Knights of the Order of the Garter. From the Bruges Garter Book, 1430/1440, BL Stowe 594. He displays on his tabard the arms of Paveley: Argent, a cross moline/flory or (the field should be azure not argent). The framed tablet on which he rests his right hand displays the coats of arms of his successor Knights of the Garter, his immediate successor in his Garter Stall (Garter Stall N25, on the north side of St. George's Chapel) having been Sir w:Thomas Banastre (c.1334-1379), KG, who became a Knight of the Garter in 1375. Arms of Banastre (top centre): Argent, a cross moline/patoncée/sarcelly/flory sable (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.45, "Banaster, Banester", with varying form of cross, shown as moline in this illustration. Inscribed above "Apres ly (apres le/after the) Monsig(nor) Thomas Banaster"). Left: "Apres ly Mon(seigneur) Saudich de Traue" (blank shield, should be: Or, a lion rampant double-queued gules (as seen on his surviving garter plate [1]). Right: "Apres ly Sir Symond Ffelbr(igge?)" (Sir Simon Felbrigg), with arms of Felbrigg (Or, a lion rampant gules).

Chronological list of occupants (source: https://www.heraldica.org/topics/orders/garterstalls.htm ):

• 1348 (25) Sir Walter Paveley. One of the Founders of the Order.
• c.1376el (55) Sir Thomas Banastre. Attended the Black Prince into Spain and fought at the battle of Najara. Perished in a wreck in the Irish Sea on an expedition to Brittany.
• c.1380el (65) Sir Bermond Arnaud de Preissac, Soudan de la Trau (otherwise "Mons(ignor) Saudich de Traue" (as inscribed on his Garter Stall Plate, see image [2] The title Soudan means Sultan or Governor. it was probably introduced into Western Europe by the Crusaders. His arms appear to be identical to those of Sir Simon Felbrigg (Or, a lion rampant gules). Soudic was the nickname of Bertran de Pressac, soudic ("lord") de la Trave (la Trau) or Préchac (Preissac), son of Arnaut-Bernat, soudan de la Trave (la Trau) or Préchac (Preissac). He succeeded his father as soudan c.1394. He died in 1399. (Source: , https://www.gasconrolls.org/indexes/entity-010231.html ) The elder members of the family of Preissac were nicknamed Soudan of la Trau. They were issued from a nephew of Pope Clement V and its most famous member has been Arnaut-Bernat IV de Preissac who became knight of the Garter c. 1380-1381. He was also present at the battles of Poitiers (1356), Cocherel (1364) and Najera (1367), and has participated at the expedition against the Tunisian town of Madhia (1390) led by the duke of Bourbon. (Les Soudans de Preissac ou de la Trau : de Clément V à l'ordre de la Jarretière. Published in "Les Cahiers du Bazadais", no. 187, December 2014). Full biography see: George Frederick Beltz, Memorials of the Order of the Garter[3]

Bernard de Preissac, great-grandfather of the heroic Knight of BERMOND the Garter, and the first of his race who bore the title of SOUDAN of the castle of LA TRAU, (situate in the diocese of Bazas, in that part of Guienne which acknowledged the English dominion,) and transmitted the dignity, as annexed to that fief, to his posterity. Arnaud was appointed by king Edward I, in 1288, high-bailiff of Lomagne ; and, dying before 1310, left, by Vitalle de Gouth, his wife, the sister of pope Clement V, and of Arnaud Garsia de Gouth, vîcomte de Lomagne, a son, bearing his names and title, who was retained by Edward II. as of his council and household. He was also designated seigneur de Didonne; and, by Rose d'Albret, his wife, daughter of Eyquem Guilhem and sister of Senebrun d'Albret, lords de l'Esparre, had issue Arnaud Bertrand de Preissac, Soudan de Preissac and La Trau, whose firm adherence to the cause of England induced king John to deprive him (though, as it would seem, not effectively,) of his castle and lands of Didonne, and to grant them, in 1350, to Fouques de Matha. Soudan Arnaud Bertrand married Regine de Pommiers, dame de Sancats et Sivrac; and their gallant son is the subject of this brief memoir. The title "Le Soudan" (Soldanus, Sultan, i. e. governor), was probably introduced into western Europe at the period of the Crusades. "Soldanus Curiæ," being an officer in the papal household, answering to that of governor or marshal of the court , it is highly probable that Clement V, who built the castle of La Trau, gave the title of Soudan to his brother-in-law Preissac, on appointing him captain or governor of it. Froissart and others write the title Sandic, Souldic, &c. Ferron, in his work on the customs of Bordeaux, gives to these dignitaries the rank of counts. (Beltz, Memorials of the Order of the Garter)

• c.1397el (91) Sir Simon Felbrigg. In the retinue of John of Gaunt at the relief of Brest. Fought at the battle of Agincourt.
• c.1495el (245) Sir Gilbert Talbot, 3rd son of John 2nd Earl of Shrewsbury. Captain of Calais. Sent by Henry VII on a mission to Rome.
• 1522 (280) Sir Richard Wingfield. Soldier and diplomatist; in high favour with Henry VIII.
• 1526 (291) Sir Henry Guildford. A favourite courtier of Henry VIII.
• 1624 (416) Esmé (Stuart), 3rd Duke of Lennox.
• 1714 (528) Charles (Montague), 1st Earl of Halifax. Chancellor of the Exchequer. First Lord of the Treasury.
• 1738 (553) James, 1st Earl Waldegrave.
• 1839 (684) William Harry (Vane), 1st Duke of Cleveland.
• 1878 (770) Benjamin (D'Israeli), Earl of Beaconsfield. First Lord of the Treasury and Prime Minister.
• 1901 (813) Frederick Sleigh, 1st Earl Roberts. Field Marshal; saw active service in India, Afghanistan, and South Africa.
• 1922 (865) Arthur James, Earl Balfour. First Lord of the Treasury and Prime Minister.
• 1928 (873) James Albert Edward (Hamilton), 3rd Duke of Abercorn.