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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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Villiers of Purbeck — John Villiers, 1st Viscount Purbeck, and the title-bearing paternal branch joined to Frances Coke

Class: Peer

Branch: Villiers of Purbeck, elder-son branch of Sir George Villiers of Brooksby

Armiger: John Villiers, 1st Viscount Purbeck and Baron Villiers of Stoke

Issued / recorded: 19 July 1619

Blazon: Argent, on a cross Gules five escallops Or. Crest: A lion rampant Argent ducally crowned Or. Motto commonly associated with the Villiers family: FIDEI COTICULA CRUX.

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Villiers of Purbeck — John Villiers, 1st Viscount Purbeck, full six-quarter achievement with differentiated crest and supporters

Class: Peer

Branch: Villiers of Purbeck, elder son of Sir George Villiers of Brooksby by Mary Beaumont

Armiger: John Villiers, 1st Viscount Purbeck and Baron Villiers of Stoke

Issued / recorded: 1619-07-19

Blazon: Quarterly of six: 1st, Argent, on a cross Gules five escallops Or, for Villiers; 2nd, Sable, a fess between three cinquefoils Argent, for Villiers; 3rd, Gules, a chevron between three cross-crosslets fitchée Argent, for Pakenham; 4th, per pale Gules and Sable, a lion rampant Argent, crowned Or, for Bellers; 5th, Azure, a bend between six mullets of six points pierced Argent, for Howe; 6th, Argent, a cross, and in the first and fourth quarters an annulet Vert, for Kirkby. Crest: On a wreath, a lion rampant Argent, crowned Or, charged on the shoulder with a mullet Sable for difference. Supporters: Two lions Or, gorged with plain collars Azure, each charged with three fleurs-de-lis Or, and each bearing on the shoulder a mullet Sable. Motto: FIDEI COTICULA CRUX.

Variant: Historic Variant

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Buckingham — George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, upward peerage achievement from Brooksby

Class: Peer

Branch: Buckingham branch descended from Sir George Villiers and Mary Beaumont

Armiger: George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, KG

Issued / recorded: 1616

Blazon: Quarterly of six: 1st, Argent, on a cross Gules five escallops Or, for Villiers; 2nd, Sable, a fess between three cinquefoils Argent, for the older Villiers form; 3rd, Gules, a chevron between three cross-crosslets fitchée Argent, for Pakenham; 4th, per pale Gules and Sable, a lion rampant Argent, ducally crowned Or, for Bellers; 5th, Azure, a bend between six mullets of six points pierced Argent, for Howe; 6th, Argent, a cross, and in the first and fourth quarters an annulet Vert, for Kirkby.

Variant: Quartering

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Villiers of Purbeck — John Villiers, 1st Viscount Purbeck, six-quarter paternal peerage achievement with two Villiers quarters

Class: Peer

Branch: Villiers of Brooksby — Purbeck cadet branch

Armiger: John Villiers, 1st Viscount Purbeck and Baron Villiers of Stoke

Issued / recorded: 1619-07-19

Blazon: Quarterly of six: 1st, Argent, on a cross Gules five escallops Or, for Villiers; 2nd, Sable, a fess between three cinquefoils Argent, for a second Villiers form; 3rd, Gules, a chevron between three cross-crosslets fitchée Argent, for Pakenham; 4th, Per pale Gules and Sable, a lion rampant Argent, crowned Or, for Bellers; 5th, Azure, a bend between six mullets of six points pierced Argent, for Howe; 6th, Argent, a cross, and in the first and fourth quarters an annulet Vert, for Kirkby. Crest: On a wreath, a lion rampant Argent, crowned Or, charged on the shoulder with a mullet Sable for difference. Supporters: Two lions Or, gorged with plain collars Azure, each charged with three fleurs-de-lis Or, and each bearing on the shoulder a mullet Sable. Motto: FIDEI COTICULA CRUX.

Variant: Historic Variant

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Villiers of Purbeck — John Villiers, 1st Viscount Purbeck, differentiated and quartered peerage achievement

Class: Peer

Branch: Villiers of Brooksby; Viscounts Purbeck

Armiger: John Villiers, 1st Viscount Purbeck

Issued / recorded: 1619

Blazon: Quarterly of six: 1st, Argent, on a cross Gules five escallops Or, for Villiers; 2nd, Sable, a fess between three cinquefoils Argent, for Villiers; 3rd, Gules, a chevron between three cross-crosslets fitchy Argent, for Pakenham; 4th, per pale Gules and Sable, a lion rampant Argent crowned Or, for Bellers; 5th, Azure, a bend between six mullets of six points pierced Argent, for Howe; 6th, Argent, a cross, in the first and fourth quarters an annulet Vert, for Kirkby.

Variant: Quartering

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Weld-Forester of Willey Park — Cecil Forester and the baronial continuation of the Dothill-Cecil branch

Class: Peer

Branch: Weld-Forester of Willey Park

Armiger: Cecil Forester, 1st Baron Forester of Willey Park, and the Weld-Forester descendants

Issued / recorded: 1811

Blazon: Quarterly: 1st and 4th, per quarter per fess indented Argent and Sable, in the first and fourth quarters a bugle horn of the second, for Forester; 2nd and 3rd, Azure, a fess nebuly between three crescents Ermine, and in the centre chief point a cross crosslet fitchée Or, for Weld.

Variant: Marshalling

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Willoughby de Eresby — Ufford and Beke quartered achievement of the senior medieval house

Class: Peer

Branch: Senior Eresby house preceding the Parham cadet branch

Armiger: Robert Willoughby, 6th Baron Willoughby de Eresby, KG, and the senior medieval Eresby house

Issued / recorded: 1376

Blazon: Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Sable, a cross engrailed Or, for Ufford; 2nd and 3rd, Gules, a cross moline Argent, for Beke. Some medieval records reverse the order of the quarters.

Variant: Historic Variant

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Sir John Christopher Willoughby, 5th Baronet of Baldon House — final baronet and extinction of the branch

Class: Baronet

Branch: Baldon House, Oxfordshire; Fulmer Hall, Buckinghamshire

Armiger: Sir John Christopher Willoughby, 5th Baronet

Issued / recorded: 1859

Blazon: Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Sable, a cross engrailed Or; 2nd and 3rd, Gules, a cross moline Argent; all within a bordure gobony Argent and Gules. Crest: A Saracen's bust Proper, ducally crowned Or. Motto: VERITÉ SANS PEUR.

Variant: Same Design

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Willoughby of Baldon House — Oxfordshire baronet branch with gobony-bordered medieval Willoughby quarters

Class: Baronet

Branch: Baldon House, Marsh Baldon, Oxfordshire; earlier Beverstock and Knoyle, Wiltshire

Armiger: The Willoughby baronets of Baldon House

Issued / recorded: 1794

Blazon: Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Sable, a cross engrailed Or; 2nd and 3rd, Gules, a cross moline Argent; all within a bordure gobony Argent and Gules. Crest: A Saracen's bust Proper, ducally crowned Or. For the baronetcy, a sinister canton bearing the Red Hand of Ulster is used in the usual manner.

Variant: Cadet

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Willoughby of Horwich and Shaw Place — Charles Willoughby, Davenport marriage and short-lived Lancashire succession

Class: Peer

Branch: Shaw Place succession branch through the Davenport marriage

Armiger: Charles Willoughby, retrospectively 4th Baron of the 1680 creation and conventionally 14th Baron Willoughby of Parham

Issued / recorded: 1713

Blazon: Or, fretty Azure. In matrimonial context the Willoughby arms were paired with the arms of Davenport of Darcy Lever; the accessible evidence does not preserve a sufficiently secure complete blazon of the Davenport half for formal normalization.

Variant: Impalement

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Willoughby–Leigh of Worsley Hall — Hugh Willoughby's matrimonial armorial achievement with Honora Leigh

Class: Peer

Branch: Willoughby of Horwich and Worsley Hall

Armiger: Hugh Willoughby, retrospectively 2nd Baron of the 1680 creation, and Honora Leigh, Lady Willoughby

Issued / recorded: 1692-00-00

Blazon: Willoughby: Or, fretty Azure. The Willoughby crest and supporters were used to frame or accompany the scutcheon and crest of Leigh of Stoneleigh. The complete Leigh blazon is not normalized because the surviving scholarly account describes the carving without supplying a sufficiently secure formal blazon.

Variant: Impalement

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Willoughby of Horwich and Worsley Hall — Hugh Willoughby, second holder of the 1680 writ barony and Leigh matrimonial achievement

Class: Peer

Branch: Horwich branch; Worsley Hall and later Shaw Place phase

Armiger: Hugh Willoughby, retrospectively 2nd Baron of the 1680 creation and conventionally 12th Baron Willoughby of Parham

Issued / recorded: 29 February 1692

Blazon: Or, fretty Azure. Crest: A Saracen's head affrontée couped at the shoulders Proper, ducally crowned Or. Supporters: Dexter, an ostrich Argent holding in the beak a horseshoe Or; sinister, a savage Proper, wreathed about the temples and loins with ivy Proper. Motto: VERITÉ SANS PEUR. In the documented matrimonial achievement with Honora Leigh, the Willoughby arms were juxtaposed with the arms of Leigh of Stoneleigh, with the Willoughby supporters and motto framing the display.

Variant: Impalement

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Willoughby of Horwich — Hugh Willoughby, retrospectively 2nd Baron of the 1680 creation and conventionally 12th Baron Willoughby of Parham

Class: Peer

Branch: Willoughby of Horwich and Old Lord's, Lancashire

Armiger: Hugh Willoughby, retrospectively 2nd Baron of the 1680 creation and conventionally 12th Baron Willoughby of Parham

Issued / recorded: 1680-10-21

Blazon: Or, fretty Azure. Crest: A Saracen's head affrontée couped at the shoulders Proper, ducally crowned Or. Supporters: Dexter, an ostrich Argent holding in the beak a horseshoe Or; sinister, a savage Proper, wreathed about the temples and loins with ivy Proper. Motto: VERITÉ SANS PEUR.

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Willoughby of Shaw Place — Hugh Willoughby, final holder and transmission of the Lancashire estate to the Roscoe and Shaw sisters

Class: Peer

Branch: Final male line of the Horwich and Shaw Place succession

Armiger: Hugh Willoughby, retrospectively 5th Baron of the 1680 creation and conventionally 15th Baron Willoughby of Parham

Issued / recorded: 17 July 1715

Blazon: Or, fretty Azure. Crest: A Saracen's head affrontée couped at the shoulders Proper, ducally crowned Or. Supporters: Dexter, an ostrich Argent holding in the beak a horseshoe Or; sinister, a savage Proper, wreathed about the temples and loins with ivy Proper. Motto: VERITÉ SANS PEUR.

Variant: Same Design

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