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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

Higher Nobility | Viscounts and Barons | Gentry and Others
 
 

Gentry

Arms of historical persons portrayed by Guild of St. George members.
[California, Bristol
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Ascham (London): gules a fess or between three dolphins naiant embowed argent

 
Bacon: gules on a chief argent 2 mullets pierced sable

 
Bertie: azure three battering rams barwise in pale proper headed and garnished azure

 
Bromley: quarterly per fess indented gules and or

 
Camden: azure a fess engrailed between six crosses crosslet fitchée or

 
Carey: argent on a bend sable three roses argent  
Cavendish: sable three bucks heads cabossed argent

 
Cheke: argent three crescents gules

 
Coke: per pale gules and azure three eagles displayed argent (Motto: Prudens qui patiens: prudence through patience)

 
Cornwallis: argent three choughs sable  
Davison: gules a stag trippant or  
Dee: gules a lion rampant or within a bordure indented or (Motto: Hoc opus)  
Dethick: argent a fess vairy gules and or between three bougets sable

 
Drake: sable a fess wavy between two estoiles argent

 
Drury: argent on a chief vert two mullets pierced or

 
Fernely: or on a bend vert three stag's heads cabossed argent

 
Fettiplace (of Chilrey & Fernham, co. Berks): gules two chevrons argent

 
Fettiplace (co. Hants): gules two chevrons argent, in chief two escallops or

 
Fitton: argent a canton gules, overall on a bend azure three garbs or

 
Fitzalan: gules a lion rampant or

 
Flower: Ermines a pierced cinquefoil ermine

 
Fortesque: azure a bend engrailed argent cotised or

 
Fynche: argent a chevron between three griffins passant sable (a crescent for difference)

 
Frobisher: ermine on a fess engrailed azure between three griffins heads erased sable a greyhound courant argent

 
Gamage:Argent five fusils in bend gules, on a chief azure three escallops argent

 
Glover: Sable a chevron ermine between three crescents argent

 
Grenville: gules three clarions or  
Gresham: argent a chevron ermines between three mullets pierced sable

 
Griffin: sable a griffin segreant argent, beaked and forelegged or

 
Hales: gules three arrows argent barbed and feathered or

 
Harrington: sable a fret argent (and a label gules?)

 
Hatton: azure a chevron between three garbs or

 
Hawkins: sable on a point wavy argent and azure a lion passant or in chief three bezants

(1571 augmentation: on a canton argent an escallop between two palmers staves sable)

 

Heneage: or a greyhound courant sable between three leopards faces azure a bordure engrailed gules

 

Hoby: argent three fusils in fess gules

 
Hussey: or a cross vert

 
Kitson (of Hengrave Hall, co. Suff.): sable, three lucies hauriant argent a chief or

 
Knollys: gules on a chevron argent three roses gules

 
Lee: argent a fess between three crescents sable

 
Lyte: gules a chevron between three swans argent

 
Markham: azure on a chief or a demi-lion rampant issuant gules

 
Melville: Gules three crescents argent within a bordure of the last charged with eight roses of the first

 
Mildmay: argent three lions rampant azure armed and langued gules (Several others listed)

 
Neville: gules a saltire argent

 
Norreys: quarterly argent and gules; in the second and third quarters a fret or; overall, a fess azure.

 
O'Neill (Baron Dungannon-Ireland): argent two lions rampant combatant gules armed and langued azure supporting a sinister hand couped at the wrist gules; overall a sinister bendlet sable

 
Packington: Per chevron sable and argent in chief three mullets or, in base three garbs gules

 
Parker, Matthew: gules, on a chevron between three keys argent three estoiles or

 
Parr: argent two bars azure within a bordure engrailed sable

 
Parry, Blanch: argent a fess between three lozenges a bordure azure

 
Paston: argent six fleur de lys three, two, and one azure; a chief indented or

 
Perrot: gules three pears or on a chief argent a demi-lion rampant issuant sable armed and langued gules

 
Pickering: ermine a lion rampant azure crowned or

 
Pilkington: (James Pilkington, Bishop of Durham 1561-76; Granted by Sir Gilbert Dethick, Garter 1551). Argent a cross patonce voided gules, on a chief vert three suns or

 
Raleigh: gules seven fusils in bend argent

 
Ratcliffe: argent a bend engrailed sable

 
Sadler: or a lion rampant per fess azure and gules

 
Sherley: paly of six or and azure a canton ermine paly of six or and azure a canton ermine

 
St Ledger (Annery, co. Devon): Azure fretty argent a canton or

 
Stafford: or a chevron gules

 
Sydney: or a pheon azure

 
Throckmorton: gules on a chevron argent three bars gemels sable

 
Trotter (of Byers Hall co. Durham): argent a chief ermine overall a lion rampant azure (Motto: Fortis non ferox: strength not fierceness)

 
Tyrwitt: gules three tyrwhitts or

 
Unton: azure on a fess engrailed or between three spearheads argent a greyhound courant sable

 
Vernon: argent a fret sable

 
Villiers: argent on a cross gules five escallops or

 
Walsingham: paly of six argent and sable a fess gules (a crescent or on fess for difference)

 
Williams, Sir Roger: quarterly 1 and 4: argent three wyverns heads vert holding in their mouths a hand couped at the wrist proper; 2 and 3: vert a chevron between three wolves heads erased or

 
Willoughby: or fretty azure  
Wroughton:Argent a chevron gules between three boars' heads couped sable

 
Young, Robert of London: ermine on a chief azure three lions rampant argent  
 

Corporate and Official Arms

 
College of Arms: argent a cross gules between four doves the dexter wing addorsed azure

 
Garter King of Arms: argent a cross gules on a chief azure a crown within a garter between a lion passant guardant and a fleur-de-lys all or

 
Bristol, City of: gules on the sinister side a castle with two towers domed on each a pennant all argent the castle on a mount in sinister base vert the dexter base barry wavy of six argent and azure thereon a ship with three masts sailing from behind the castle or the fore and main masts in sight sable, on each two sails argent

 
Bristol Society of Merchants Adventurers: barry wavy of eight argent and azure on a bend or a dragon passant wings indorsed and tail extended vert; on a chief gules a lion passant guardant or between two bezants

 
See of Canterbury: azure an archepiscopal staff argent ensigned by a cross paty or surmounted by a pall argent edged and fringed or charged with four crosses formy fitchy sable

 
See of Durham: azure a cross between four lions rampant or

 
 
The authors of this site are unable to undertake genealogical research. Those seeking "family arms" should see Common Questions about Heraldry at Heraldica.




 

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