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Armorial Blazon Blazon source Arms
1 Sir Richard Empson -1510 Argent two bends engrailed Sable. Dictionary of British Arms, Medieval Ordinary, vol 2, p. 109. Empson.png - 10Kb
2 William Crowmer -1450 Q1 & 4: Argent a chevron engrailed between three crows legged Or, Sable. Q2 & 3: Argent, a squirrel sejeant Gules eating a nut Or. Visitation of Kent 1530, pub 1923, vol I, pp. 7 and 43. Crowmer.png - 100Kb
3 James Fiennes, Lord Saye & Sele ca1395-1450 Azure 3 lions Argent. Dictionary of British Arms, Medieval Ordinary, vol 1, p. 277. Fiennes.png - 88Kb
4 Sir Thomas Wyatt ca1521-1554 Gules, on a fess or three lions rampant Sable, between three boars heads couped Argent, tusked Or. (1) Dictionary of British Arms, Medieval Ordinary, vol 3, p. 502.
(2) Visitation of Kent in the year 1530, pub 1923, Wyatt, vol I, p. 222.
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5 Anthony Wydevill, Earl Rivers ca1440-1483 Quarterly of six: 1. Argent a fess and a quarter Gules (Wydeville), 2. Gules a gryphon Or (Redvers), 3 Argent a lion Gules, 4. Vair (Beauchamp), 5. Gules an eagle displayed Or (Prowes), 6. Gules, a sun in splendour (with seventeen rays) Argent. His stall plate in St George's Chapel, Windsor and checked by me.
See also (a) "Illustrated Catalogue of Stall Plates" pub by The Dean and Canons of Windsor, 2014, (b) the Wydevile quarter in Dean of St George, Windsor’s tables as illustrated in Garter Armorials CDROM pub by Heraldry Society 2015, (c) the quarters are identified from his father's arms in St John Hope (KG 169).
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6 Richard Wydevill, Earl Rivers -1469 Quarterly: 1 & 4: Silver a fess and a quarter Gules (Wydevill) quartering Gules an eagle Gold (Prowes), 2 & 3: Vair (Beauchamp of Hache) with an escutcheon of pretence: Gules a griffin Gold (Redvers). St John Hope's ""Garter Stall Plates", plate LX, pub 1901. Widville_Ric.png - 20Kb
7 Sir Nicholas Carew, KG ca1495-1539 Or three lions passant Sable armed and langed Gules. (1) Dean of St George, Windsor’s Tables, photograph in the CDROM Garter Armorials pub by Heraldry Society 2015.
(2) The Dictionary of British Arms, medieval ordinary, Volume One, p. 284.
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8 Ralph de Lumley, Lord Lumley <1361-1400 Argent a fess Gules between 3 popinjays Vert beaked, legged and collared Gules. Dictionary of British Arms, Medieval Ordinary, vol 3, pp. 373-4. Lumley.png - 63Kb
9 Henry Poole, Lord Montagu 1488-1538 Per pale sable and or, a saltire engrailed counterchanged. (Optionally also: Or, a lion rampant Gules.) Essex 1612 visitation, p. 146 and the achievement of 1927 for RCLPL by C of A. Poole_1.png - 38Kb
10 Blessed Margaret Plantagenet, Countess of Salisbury 1473-1541 France modern quartering England with a label Argent each point charged with a canton Gules. Dictionary of British Arms, Medieval Ordinary, vol 4, p. 34. Plantagenet_Margaret.png - 110Kb
11 George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence 1449-1478 France modern and England quarterly with a label of Clarence (Silver with a quarter Gules on each point). (1) St John Hope's ""Garter Stall Plates", plate LXIV, pub 1901.
(2) The Dictionary of Brittish Arms, Medieval Ordinary, vol 4, pp. 32-3.
(3) Fox-Davies' "Complete Guide to Heraldry”.
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12 Richard of Conisbrough, Earl of Cambridge ca1375-1415 France (ancient) and England quarterly, a label of three points Argent, each point charged with three torteaux, with a bordure of Spain, the latter as a difference mark from his father. However Fox-Davies also suggests, p. 495, that the following arms were what he used after his father died (as suggested by Vincent): France (ancient) and England quarterly, a label of three points Argent, the dexter point charged with three castles, the centre point charged with three castles and three lions Purpure and the sinister with three lions Purpure (the charges on the label being those of Castile and Leon, Spain). (1) British Dictionary of Arms, Medieval Ordinary, vol 4, p. 54.
(2) Fox-Davies, Complete Guide, p. 493.
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13 Richard Neville, Earl of Salisbury ca1400-1460 Quarterly: 1 & 4: Silver three fusils in fess gules (Montacute) quartering Gold an eagle Vert (Monthermer); 2 & 3: Gules a saltire Silver and a label gobony of Silver and Azure (Neville). St John Hope's ""Garter Stall Plates", plate LV, pub 1901. Neville_Sarum.png - 116Kb
14 Waltheof, Earl of Huntingdon -1076 Arg Lion Az chf Gu. Dictionary of British Arms, Medieval Ordinary, Vol I, p. 213. Huntingdon.png - 3413 bytes
15 John Montacute, Earl of Salisbury ca1350-1400 Argent, three lozenges conjointed in fesse Gules. Harrison’s Garter Armorial, No 90.
Note that there is a Garter stall plate for him but it is a replacement made in 1741-2, It is reproduced within “Illustrated Catalogue of the Stall Plates of the Knights of the Most honourable and Noble Order of the Garter” commissioned by the Dean and Canons of Windsor and published in 2014, page S7-1. Unfortunately this stall plate erroneously calls him “Gilliam de Montagu” and is very obviously a near copy of that for his uncle William Montacute, 2nd earl. William the uncle is given the Man arms but this has no adequate support and, combined with the naming error of this plate, I am drawn to the conclusion that this John would not, and should not, have born the Man arms but could have born an additional quartering of the Monthermer arms brought to him by his heiress mother, Margaret de Monthermer.
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16 Sir Henry Greene ca1347-1399 Azure 3 bucks passant Or. Dictionary of British Arms, Medieval Ordinary, vol 1, p. 291. Greene.png - 53Kb
17 Sir Thomas Maduit ca1287->1322 Checky Or and Azure, a border Gules. Dictionary of British Arms, Medieval Ordinary, Vol 2, p. 195. Maduit_Thomas.png - 20Kb
18 Roger de Mortimer, Earl of March ca1287-1330 Barry, Chief paly corners gyronny Or and Azure escutcheon Argent. Dictionary of British Arms, Medieval Ordinary, vol 1, p. 103. Mortimer_Ed.png - 22Kb
19 Thomas Ros, Lord Ros 1427-1464 Gules three bougets Argent. Dictionary of British Arms, Medieval Ordinary, vol 2, p. 210. Ros_Robt.aw.png - 5Kb
20 Sir Warin de Lisle -1322 Or, a fess between two chevrons Sable. Dictionary of British Arms, Medieval Ordinary, vol 3, pp. 385-6. Lisle.png - 2066 bytes
21 Sir Thomas St Leger -ca1483 Azure fretty Argent chief Or, crescent for different at fess point. Dictionary of British Arms, Medieval Ordinary, vol 3, p. 8. St_Leger.png - 2024 bytes
22 Sir Edward Neville 1471-1538 Gules on a saltire Argent a rose Gules seeded Or mullet Argent for difference. Dictionary of British Arms, Medieval Ordinary, vol 4, p. 409. Neville_Edward.png - 4Kb
23 Richard (III) FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel <1347-1397 Gules a lion rampant Or quartering Chequy Or and Azure. (1) On a seal of 1375 for Richard FitzAlan quartering Checky (Warren). “Catalogue of Seals in the British Museum” Vol II, p. 797.
(2) In “History of the Most Noble order of the Garter” by Elias Ashmole, list of knights and blazons, p. 502, 1715 edition.
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24 Sir Edmund FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel 1285-1326 Gules, lion Or. Dictionary of British Arms, Medieval Ordinary, vol 1, p. 132 FitzAlan_Edmund.png - 8Kb
25 Thomas Le Despenser, Earl of Gloucester 1373-1400 Quarterly argent and gules, in the second and third quarters a fret Or, over all a bend Sable. Dictionary of British Arms, Medieval Ordinary, Vol 1, p. 339.
On Fenwick’s Roll of c.1415, these arms were quartered by Clare.
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26 Hugh Despenser, Lord Despenser ca1290-1326 Quarterly Argent and Gules fretty Or bend Sable. Dictionary of British Arms, Medieval Ordinary, vol 1, p. 340. Despenser.png - 6Kb
27 Hugh Le Despenser, Earl of Winchester 1261-1326 Quarterly Argent and Gules, in the second and third a fret Or, over all a bend Sable. Dictionary of British Arms, Medieval Ordinary, vol 1, p. 340. Despenser.png - 6Kb
28 John Mowbray, Lord Mowbray 1286-1322 Gules a lion Argent. Dictionary of British Arms, Medieval Ordinary, vol 1, p. 130. Mowbray.png - 69Kb
29 Sir Piers Gaveston, Earl of Cornwall ca1284-1312 Azure, three eagles displayed Argent. Dictionary of British Arms, Medieval Ordinary, Vol 1, p. 166. Gaveston.png - 9Kb
30 Sir George Browne -1483 On a bend cotized three lions passant. Visitation of Surrey in 1530, 1572 and 1623, pub 1899, p. 8. Browne.png - 4Kb
31 Sir Thomas Browne 1414-1460 In Visitation of Surrey, 1623: On a bend cotized three lions passant. Dict of Brit Arms: Sable, three lions rampant between 2 bends engrailed Argent. (and other variations). (1) Visitation of Surrey in 1530, 1572 and 1623, pub 1899, p. 8.
(2) Dictional of British Arms, Medieval Ordinary, Vol One, p. 305.
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32 Sir Henry de Wilington -1323 Gules a saltire Vair. Dictionary of British Arms, Medieval Ordinary, Vol 4, p. 365. Wilington.png - 2184 bytes
33 Sir Reginald Crawford -1307 Gules a fess Ermine. Sir James Balfour Paul’s “Scots Peerage”, Campbell of Loudon, Vol 5, p. 490, referencing Macdonald’s “Scottish Armorial Seals”, No 525 and, for his son, 526. Bruce A McAndrew, “Scotland’s Historic Heraldry”, p. 371, revealing that the field was Gules. Crawford_Reginald.png - 3653 bytes
34 Sir John Graham, Earl of Mentieth -1347 On a chief three scallops. His personal arms are uncertain but the Grahams bore this in various tinctures and lines of division: Scotalnd’s Historic Heraldry by Bruce A McAndrew, pp. 137 and 219. Graham_John.png - 1925 bytes
35 Duncan, Earl of Lennox ca1345-1425 Argent a saltire between four roses Gules. (1) Dictionary of British Arms, Medieval Ordinary, vol 4, p. 394
(2) The Scots Peerage ed by Sir James Balfour Paul, vol 5, p. 343.
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36 Sir David Brechin -ca1320 Three piles, but not in point. Later it was “Or three piles Gules”. The Scots Peerage, Brechin article, vol 2, pp. 221 and 224 Brechin_David.png - 2849 bytes
37 Sir Malcolm Fleming -1440 Gules a chevron within a double tressure counterflowered Argent. The Scots Peerage, ed Balfour Paul, vol 8, p. 557 and Dictionary of British Arms, Medieval Ordinary, vol 2, p. 422. Fleming_Malcolm.png - 5Kb
38 Sir Robert de Holand, Lord Holand ca1270-1328 Azure semy of fleurs de lis Argent lion Argent OR: Azure fleurette, a leopard rampant Argent. Dictionary of British Arms, Medieval Ordinary, vol 2, p.151 Holand_Robert.png - 7Kb
39 Edmund of Woodstock, Earl of Kent 1301-1330 Gules, three lions passant guardant Or, within a bordure Argent. (1) RCLPL’s Achievement of 1927 by C of A: (44) Plantagenet: Norfolk 14/28, Norfolk 16/19b.
(2) Fox-Davies, "Complete Guide", p. 491.
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40 Bartholomew de Badlesmere, Lord Badlesmere ca1275-1322 Argent, a fesse between two bars gemelles Gules. Armorial Families for Burrell, Vol I, p. 271, and from: (a) Lord Marshall's Roll 541, (b) Stirling Roll 67 and (c) Great/Parliamentary/Bannerets Roll 150 all ex inform Irene H S. Badlesmere.png - 2481 bytes
41 William, Count of Eu -ca1095 For his ggg-grand-dau and her son Isodon: Barry of 7, Arg and Azure, a label of 7 points Gules. Dictionary of British Arms, Medieval Ordinary, Vol 4, p. 184. William_Eu.png - 1493 bytes
42 William de Braose, Lord of Abergavenny <1197-1230 Azure a semy of cross crosslets Or a lion rampant Or (armed and langued Gules). Dictionary of British Arms, Medieval Ordinary, Vol 1, p. 147. Braose.png - 11Kb
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