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Armorial Registry

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General Armorial Registry

Armorial Registry

A digital registry of armorial bearings centred on landed and armigerous gentry, their cadet/offshoot branches and upward connections into knighthood, baronetcies, peerage and royal houses, while also retaining other documented heraldry. Links to manors, lordships and historical people are optional.

908 armorial records

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Gascoyne of Childwall Hall — Frances Mary Gascoyne and the legally effective heiress transmission into Salisbury

Class: Landed Gentry

Branch: Childwall Hall heiress line of Bamber Gascoyne and Sarah Bridget Frances Price

Armiger: Frances Mary Gascoyne, Marchioness of Salisbury

Issued / recorded: 25 January 1802

Blazon: Argent, on a pale Sable a conger's head erased and erect Or, charged with an ermine spot, for Gascoyne of Childwall Hall; in her married context the arms were represented through the Salisbury-Gascoyne-Cecil marshalling adopted by her husband.

Variant: Marshalling

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Gascoyne-Cecil of Salisbury — Frances Mary Gascoyne and the heiress transmission

Class: Peer

Branch: Sole-heiress Childwall Hall branch of Gascoyne, transmitted into the Salisbury line by marriage

Armiger: Frances Mary Gascoyne, Marchioness of Salisbury

Issued / recorded: 1821

Blazon: Paternal arms associated with the Childwall Gascoyne family: Argent, on a pale Sable a conger's head erased and erect Or, charged with an ermine spot. In her married armorial context, the Gascoyne arms were quartered with the Salisbury Cecil arms by her husband under the 1821 Royal Licence.

Variant: Marshalling

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Frances Mary Gascoyne — Childwall heiress and heraldic transmission into the Salisbury Cecil line

Class: Landed Gentry

Branch: Gascoyne of Childwall Hall; heiress transmission into Cecil of Salisbury

Armiger: Frances Mary Gascoyne, Marchioness of Salisbury

Issued / recorded: 1802

Blazon: For her paternal Gascoyne inheritance: Argent, on a pale Sable a conger's head erased and erect Or, charged with an ermine spot. Her maternal Price connection is represented in the parental and marital heraldic context by Gules, a chevron between three spear-heads Argent.

Variant: Marshalling

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Aldenham Gibbs–Beresford-Hope marriage branch — issue of Alban Gibbs and Bridget Beresford-Hope

Class: Peer

Branch: Aldenham branch transmitted through the 1873 Beresford-Hope marriage

Armiger: Alban George Henry Gibbs, 2nd Baron Aldenham, and Bridget Beresford-Hope

Issued / recorded: 18 February 1873

Blazon: No separate personal grant or complete contemporary matrimonial achievement for Alban Gibbs and Bridget Beresford-Hope has been located. The documented components are: Gibbs of Aldenham, Argent, three battle-axes erect within a bordure nebuly Sable; and Beresford-Hope, Azure, a chevron Or between three bezants, with the Beresford-Hope crest and motto AT SPES NON FRACTA in the paternal house.

Variant: Marshalling

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Gibbs of Aldenham — principal baronial arms, full achievement and hereditary Aldenham branch

Class: Peer

Branch: Aldenham and Clifton Hampden branch descended from George Henry Gibbs

Armiger: Henry Hucks Gibbs, 1st Baron Aldenham, and the succeeding Aldenham Gibbs line

Issued / recorded: 31 January 1896

Blazon: Argent, three battle-axes erect within a bordure nebuly Sable. Crest: In front of a rock a dexter arm embowed in armour, the hand gauntleted Proper bearing a battle-axe bendwise sinister Sable. Supporters: On either side a man habited in buff leather jerkin, gloves and boots, armed with a three-barred helmet, long gorget and sword, all Proper, and holding in the exterior hand a battle-axe over the shoulder Sable. Motto: TENAX PROPOSITI.

Variant: Same Design

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Gibbs-Hucks of Aldenham descent — quartered cadet achievement of the Surrey collateral branch

Class: Armigerous Gentry

Branch: Surrey collateral branch descended from George Henry Gibbs of Aldenham through the non-baronial Gibbs-Hucks line

Armiger: John Arthur Gibbs of Goddards and the documented Surrey descendants of George Henry Gibbs

Issued / recorded: 1899

Blazon: Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Argent, three battle-axes erect Sable within a bordure nebuly of the last, for Gibbs; 2nd and 3rd, Argent, two chevronels between three owls Azure, for Hucks. Crest: In front of a rock a dexter arm embowed in armour, the hand in a gauntlet Proper bearing a battle-axe bendwise sinister Sable. Motto: TENAX PROPOSITI.

Variant: Quartering

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Gibbs of Aldenham — Bridget Beresford-Hope's marriage transmission into the Aldenham barony

Class: Peer

Branch: Gibbs of Aldenham, Hertfordshire, through the Beresford-Hope marriage connection

Armiger: Alban George Henry Gibbs, 2nd Baron Aldenham

Issued / recorded: 1896

Blazon: Argent, three battle-axes erect within a bordure nebuly Sable. Crest: In front of a rock a dexter arm embowed in armour, the hand gauntleted Proper bearing a battle-axe in bend sinister Sable. Supporters: On either side a man habited in buff leather jerkin, gloves and boots, armed with a three-barred helmet, long gorget and sword Proper, holding in the exterior hand a battle-axe over the shoulder Sable. Motto: TENAX PROPOSITI.

Variant: Marshalling

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Greville-Nugent of Clonyn — Lady Rosa Emily Mary Anne Nugent and Fulke Southwell Greville-Nugent

Class: Peer

Branch: Greville-Nugent of Clonyn Castle, descended through the sole surviving legitimate daughter of the 1st Marquess of Westmeath

Armiger: Lady Rosa Emily Mary Anne Nugent and Fulke Southwell Greville-Nugent, 1st Baron Greville

Issued / recorded: 1866

Blazon: Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Ermine, two bars Gules, a canton Gules for difference, for Nugent; 2nd and 3rd, Sable, on a cross engrailed Or five pellets, within a bordure engrailed Or, for Greville.

Variant: Cadet

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Havers of Stockerston — John Havers and Elizabeth Cecil, documented matrimonial achievement at St Peter's

Class: Armigerous Gentry

Branch: Stockerston matrimonial branch of Havers, joined to the Wakerley cadet branch of Cecil of Exeter

Armiger: John Havers of Stockerston and Elizabeth Cecil

Issued / recorded: 1633

Blazon: Havers: Or, on a fess Sable three chess-rooks Or; paired with Cecil of Wakerley: Barry of ten Argent and Azure, over all six escutcheons Sable, three, two and one, each charged with a lion rampant Argent.

Variant: Impalement

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Heckington of Bourne — heiress line transmitted into the Cecil quartered achievement

Class: Landed Gentry

Branch: Heckington of Bourne, Lincolnshire; heiress branch entering Cecil of Burghley

Armiger: Jane Heckington, wife of Richard Cecil

Issued / recorded: c.1501

Blazon: Argent, on a bend cotised Gules three cinquefoils Or, as the Heckington quarter is given in the late sixteenth-century heraldic panel tradition. Some antiquarian copies instead report three mullets Or; the cinquefoil form is the better-supported version in the Cecil quartering tradition but the variant should be retained in the research notes.

Variant: Marshalling

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Hill of Hillsborough and Downshire — Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire, paternal arms of Lady Emily Mary Hill

Class: Peer

Branch: Hill of Hillsborough; Marquesses of Downshire

Armiger: Wills Hill, 1st Marquess of Downshire

Issued / recorded: 1742

Blazon: Quarterly: 1st, Sable, on a fess Argent, between three leopards passant guardant Or, spotted of the field, as many escallops Gules, for Hill; 2nd, party per bend sinister Ermine and Ermines, a lion rampant Or, for Trevor; 3rd, Gules, a quatrefoil Or, for Rowe; 4th, Argent, a chevron Azure between three trefoils slipped per pale Gules and Vert, also for Rowe. Crest: A reindeer's head couped Gules, attired and plain-collared Or. Supporters: Dexter, a leopard Or, spotted Sable, ducally gorged and chained Gules; sinister, a reindeer Gules, attired, unguled and plain-collared Or.

Variant: Same Design

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Beresford-Hope of Bedgebury Park and Beresford Hall — Sir Alexander James Beresford Beresford-Hope, royal-licence name succession and Salisbury matrimonial branch

Class: Armigerous Gentry

Branch: Beresford-Hope of Bedgebury Park and Beresford Hall, descended from Thomas Hope of Deepdene and the Hon. Louisa Beresford

Armiger: Sir Alexander James Beresford Beresford-Hope, P.C., F.R.S.

Issued / recorded: 1854-05-30

Blazon: Azure, a chevron Or between three bezants. Crest: A broken globe surmounted by a rainbow with clouds at each end, all Proper. Motto: AT SPES NON FRACTA.

Variant: Other

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Beresford-Hope of Bedgebury Park and Beresford Hall — Alexander James Beresford Beresford-Hope and the Gascoyne-Cecil marriage branch

Class: Armigerous Gentry

Branch: Beresford-Hope of Bedgebury Park and Beresford Hall

Armiger: Sir Alexander James Beresford Beresford-Hope, P.C., F.R.S.

Issued / recorded: 1842

Blazon: Azure, a chevron Or between three bezants. Crest: A broken globe surmounted by a rainbow with clouds at each end Proper. Motto: AT SPES NON FRACTA.

Variant: Marshalling

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Beresford-Hope of Bedgebury Park and Beresford Hall — Alexander James Beresford Beresford-Hope and the name-and-estate succession

Class: Knight

Branch: Beresford-Hope of Bedgebury Park and Beresford Hall

Armiger: Sir Alexander James Beresford Beresford-Hope, P.C., F.R.S.

Issued / recorded: 7 July 1842 marriage; 30 May 1854 name succession; 20 October 1887 death

Blazon: Azure, a chevron Or between three bezants. Crest: A broken globe surmounted by a rainbow with clouds at each end, all Proper. Motto: AT SPES NON FRACTA.

Variant: Other

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Joicey-Cecil of Highfield — Colonel Lord John Pakenham Joicey-Cecil, principal individual armiger

Class: Armigerous Gentry

Branch: Joicey-Cecil of Highfield, Andover

Armiger: Colonel Lord John Pakenham Joicey-Cecil

Issued / recorded: 1898

Blazon: Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Barry of ten Argent and Azure, over all six escutcheons Sable, three, two and one, each charged with a lion rampant Argent, for Cecil; 2nd and 3rd, Argent, three torteaux in bend between two bendlets Gules, for Joicey. Crests: the Cecil Exeter garb on a chapeau Gules turned up Ermine, supported by two lions Argent and Azure; and a demi-man affrontée in armour Proper with scimitar, Joicey escutcheon and spiked mace. Motto: COR UNUM VIA UNA.

Variant: Same Design

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