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An Elizabethan Armorial

Blazons of the Ancient Paternal Arms of the Peers of England and Members of the Gentry as Portrayed in the Guild of Saint George


Compiled by John Neitz
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Arms Drawn by Paula Kate Marmor

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VISCOUNTS

 
Hereford (Devereux): see earl of Essex.

 
Montague (Browne): sable, three lions passant in bend between two double cottises argent . (Motto: Suivez raison: Follow reason)

 
Howard of Bindon (Howard): As for Duke of Norfolk with a crescent on bend for difference.


BARONS

Many baronial titles are the same as the family surname. Where they are different, the name is shown in parentheses.

 
de Roos (Manners): or, two bars azure a chief gules.

 
Grey de Wilton: barry of six argent & azure, a label of five points gules.

 
Clinton: as for Earl of Lincoln.

 
Zouche (Le Zouche): gules, ten bezants a canton ermine.

 
Cobham (Brooke): gules, on a chevron argent a lion rampant sable.

 
Audley (Tuchet): ermine, a chevron gules. (?)

 
Willoughby D'Eresby (Bertie): argent, three battering rams barwise in pale proper headed & garnished azure

 
Morley (Parker): argent, between two bars sable a lion passant gules in chief three bucks’ heads cabossed sable.

 
Scrope (Le Scrope): azure, a bend or.

 
Stourton: sable, a bend or between six fountains.

 
Lumley: argent, a fess gules between three popinjays vert collared gules.

 
Berkeley: gules, a chevron between ten crosses patée argent.

 
Latimer (Neville): gules, on a saltire argent an annulet sable for difference.

 
Dudley (Sutton): or, a lion rampant queue forché vert

 
Bergavenny (Neville): gules, on a saltire argent a rose gules barbed & seeded proper for difference.

 
Ogle: argent, a fess between three crescents gules.

 
Mountjoy (Blount): barry, nebuly of six or and sable.

 
Dacre of Gillisland and Greystock (Dacre): gules, three escallops or.

 
Dacre of the South (Fiennes): azure, three lions rampant or.

 
Willoughby de Brooke (Willoughby/Greville): or, fretty azure.

 
Conyers: azure, a maunch or with a crescent or, surmounted by a crescent gules for difference.

 
Mounteagle (Stanley): argent, on a bend azure three stags heads cabossed or, a crescent for difference.

 
Sandys: argent, a cross raguly sable.

 
Vaux: checky azure and or.

 
Windsor: gules, a saltire argent between twelve crosses crosslet or

 
Wentworth: sable, a chevron between three leopards' faces or

 
Burgh: azure, three fleur-de-lys ermine

 
Mordaunt: argent, a chevron between three estoiles sable

 
Cromwell: quarterly per fess indented or and azure, four lions passant counterchanged.

 
Eure (or Evers): quarterly or and gules, on a bend sable three escallops argent.

 
Stafford : or, a chevron gules

 
Rich: gules, a chevron between three crosses botonée or. (Per pale or and azure a chevron between three rondels charged with lions rampant all counterchanged of the field.)

 
Willoughby de Parham: or, fretty azure.

 
Sheffield: argent, a chevron between three garbs gules

 
Darcy of Aston: azure, crusily and three cinquefoils argent.

 
Paget: sable, on a cross engrailed between four eagles displayed argent five lions passant guardant sable.

 
Howard of Effingham (Howard): as for Duke of Norfolk with a mullet sable for difference.

 
North: azure, a lion passant or between three fleur-de-lys argent.

 
Chandos (Brydges): argent, on a cross sable a leopard's face or.

 
Darcy of Chiche: argent, three cinquefoils gules.

 
Hastings of Loughborough: as Earl of Huntingdon.

 
Hunsdon (Carey): argent, on a bend sable three roses argent.

 
St. John of Bledsoe (St. John): argent , on a chief gules two mullets argent.

 
Buckhurst (Sackville): quarterly or and gules, a bend vair.

 
De la Warre (West): argent, a fess dancetée sable.

 
Burghley (Cecil): barry of ten argent and azure, six escutcheons sable each charged with a lion rampant argent.

 
Compton: sable, a lion passant guardant or between three esquires' helms argent.

 
Norreys of Rycote: quarterly argent & gules, in the second & third quarters a fret or, overall a fess azure

 
Cheney: ermine, on a bend sable three martlets or.

 
Wharton: sable, a maunch argent; on a bordure or, eight pairs of lions gambs saltire wise erased gules

 
Vavasour: or, a fess dancetée sable

 
Berners (Knyvett): argent, a bend and a bordure engrailed sable.

 
Ughtred: gules, on a cross moline or five mullets gules




 

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