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Errors result in the exclusion of quarters

I have been delighted to find in The Oxford Guide to Heraldry on p. 123 this sentence:

Since the sixteenth century, quartering in England has signified representation in blood, and if it is subsequently established that a pedigree is incorrect then the right to quarter is lost and and does not continue on the basis of an earlier confirmation.

Unfortunately my grandfather's scheme of quarterings contained several errors that lead to the exclusion of quarterings from the Kingmakers. Several of them were akin to the inclusion of earldom arms mentioned previously, in that the arms of territory settled on a wife were treated as the arms of an heiress, even if she had brothers. So, such territorial arms must be excluded. The curious thing is that these quarterings were originally signed off by Clarenceux in c.1926 and then the pedigree documentation to support the artwaork was produced by a herald in 1996. The set of arms to be excluded is:

C of A Quarter No	Name	Suffix Title	Birth - Death	Quartering Error
6	William Mandeville	Earl of Essex	-1189	His sole daughter Amicia was illegitimate so his arms cannot be quartered.
24	Robert FitzRoger	Lord FitzRoger	ca1247-<1310	He had two sons, the younger, Alan, with descendants for many generations so his daughter Euphemia was NO heiress.
32	Alain I de Rohan	Vicomte de Rohan	-1128	He was uncle to Alan La Zouche and NOT ancestral.
33	Conan III "Crassus"	Duke of Brittany	-1148	His heiress daughter Bertha was NOT a La Zouche ancestress.
38	Ralph de Gwadyr	Earl of East Angles	<1040-<1098	His granddaughter Amicia had brothers with issue, so was NOT an heiress.
53	Robert de Harcourt		-1202	He had sons so his daughter Amicia could NOT have been an heiress.

The Mandeville exclusion does not apply to the Kingmaker as William Mandeville is not in the Kingmaker's ancestry.

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