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Page 434
... ( Marquises d'ARMAILLÉ , and Barons de CRAON ) bear : Argent , a chief sable ; while the line of FOREST - LANDRY in Flanders engrails the chief . ( The FORESTEL of Cambray bear Argent , a chief gules . ) The senior branch of the French ...
... ( Marquises d'ARMAILLÉ , and Barons de CRAON ) bear : Argent , a chief sable ; while the line of FOREST - LANDRY in Flanders engrails the chief . ( The FORESTEL of Cambray bear Argent , a chief gules . ) The senior branch of the French ...
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... Marquis d'ARSCHOT , and Duke of SORIA , the celebrated tutor of the Emperor CHARLES V. He bore CROY and RENTY , quartered , differenced by an escucheon en surtout ; Quarterly , I and 4. LUXEMBOURG ( Argent , a lion rampant double queué ...
... Marquis d'ARSCHOT , and Duke of SORIA , the celebrated tutor of the Emperor CHARLES V. He bore CROY and RENTY , quartered , differenced by an escucheon en surtout ; Quarterly , I and 4. LUXEMBOURG ( Argent , a lion rampant double queué ...
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... Marquises of PRIEGO , bear impaled two of the many coats which appear in the escucheon of the CORDOVAS , Dukes of SESA . Their arms are : Per pale : ( 1 ) CORDOVA , Or , three bars gules ; ( 2 ) FIGUEROA , Or , five fig leaves in ...
... Marquises of PRIEGO , bear impaled two of the many coats which appear in the escucheon of the CORDOVAS , Dukes of SESA . Their arms are : Per pale : ( 1 ) CORDOVA , Or , three bars gules ; ( 2 ) FIGUEROA , Or , five fig leaves in ...
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... Marquises of CAÑETE substitute for the golden flanks , with their motto , other flanks of Gules , on each ten panelles , or poplar leaves , argent . Two golden chains in saltire pass over the dividing lines , and are united to two other ...
... Marquises of CAÑETE substitute for the golden flanks , with their motto , other flanks of Gules , on each ten panelles , or poplar leaves , argent . Two golden chains in saltire pass over the dividing lines , and are united to two other ...
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... the. 1. Stuart , Earl of Lennox . 2. Hay , Marquis of Tweeddale . 3. Stuart , Lord Methven . 4. Leslie , Lord Lindores . + + 5. Lords Carlyle . 6. Earls of Home . AL 1. Sinclair , Earl of Caithness . 2. Lords. PLATE XLII .
... the. 1. Stuart , Earl of Lennox . 2. Hay , Marquis of Tweeddale . 3. Stuart , Lord Methven . 4. Leslie , Lord Lindores . + + 5. Lords Carlyle . 6. Earls of Home . AL 1. Sinclair , Earl of Caithness . 2. Lords. PLATE XLII .
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Page 750 - Know Ye .that We of our princely grace and special favour, have given and granted and by these Presents do give and grant unto him the said...
Page 750 - SPEKE, Esquire, Captain in our Indian Military Forces, in connection with the discovery of the sources of the Nile, and who was, by a deplorable accident, suddenly deprived of his life before he had received any mark of our Royal favour ; and being desirous of preserving in his family the remembrance of these services by the grant of certain honourable armorial distinctions to his family arms : — Know ye that we, of our...
Page 534 - In his own country the king granted these honourable augmentations to his armorial ensign : a chief undulated, argent; thereon waves of the sea; from which a palm tree issuant, between a disabled ship on the dexter, and a ruinous battery on the sinister, all proper...
Page 750 - ... des armes de celuy qui le portera, et sur le dit lambrequin au plus haut du sommet, sera assis le dit Tymbre, et autour d'iceluy aura vn tortil des couleurs que voudra le Tournoyeur. " Item, et quand tous les heaulmes seront ainsi mis et ordonnez pour les departir, viendront toutes Dames et...
Page 398 - He was twentieth in descent from Geoffrey Lord Saye, who was one of the twenty-five barons appointed to enforce the observance of Magna Charta. The family, paternally of Yorkshire origin, is descended from John Twisleton, of Barley, Yorkshire, who married the Hon.
Page 627 - SUPPORTERS are figures of living creatures placed at the side, or sides, of an armorial shield, and appearing to support it. French writers make a distinction, giving the name of Supports to animals, real or imaginary, thus employed ; while human figures or angels similarly used are called Tenants.
Page 652 - ... qui y appartiennent. Et s'il les a, il doit à la première bataille , où il se trouvera , apporter un pennon de ses armes, et doit venir au...
Page 604 - ... their Coats of Arms in the British dominions. But this was not always the case in Germany; for some of the great ecclesiastics, archbishops, bishops, abbots, and even others held their fiefs direct from the emperor, and as such were liable to feudal military service. Spener, the great German herald, says that in Germany, at any rate, universal custom is opposed to the omission of the crest, and ecclesiastics retained the full knightly insignia. On the other hand, in the southern kingdoms, clerics...
Page 652 - ... il doit, à la première bataille où il se trouvera, apporter un pennon de ses armes et doit venir au connétable, ou aux...
Page 628 - The old romances give us evidence that this custom prevailed ; but I think only after the use of supporters had already arisen from another source. "There is really little doubt now that Anstis was quite correct when, in his Aspilogia, he attributed the origin of supporters to the invention of the engraver, who filled up the spaces at the top and sides of the triangular shield upon a circular seal with foliage, or with fanciful animals. Any good collection of mediaeval seals will strengthen this...