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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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Willoughby of Parham — Francis Willoughby, 5th Baron, father of Diana Willoughby

Class: Peer

Branch: Willoughby of Parham, Suffolk

Armiger: Francis Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham

Issued / recorded: Succeeded 14 October 1617

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 its beak a horseshoe Or; sinister, a savage wreathed about the temples and loins with ivy Proper. Motto: VERITÉ SANS PEUR.

Variant: Same Design

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Willoughby of Horwich — Thomas Willoughby, summoned in 1680 and founder of the legally separate Lancashire barony

Class: Peer

Branch: Horwich and Rivington branch

Armiger: Thomas Willoughby, later styled 10th or 11th Baron Willoughby of Parham; retrospectively 1st Baron of the 1680 creation

Issued / recorded: c.1602

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: Historic Variant

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Willoughby of Horwich — Thomas Willoughby, founder of the Lancashire collateral barony and Old Lords estate line

Class: Peer

Branch: Lancashire collateral branch of the Parham Willoughbys, based at Old Lord's, Horwich

Armiger: Thomas Willoughby, retrospectively 1st Baron Willoughby of Parham of the 1680 creation

Issued / recorded: 1640

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: Cadet

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Willoughby of Parham — Lancashire collateral barony created by the 1680 writ and later treated as a separate creation

Class: Peer

Branch: Lancashire collateral line descended from Sir Thomas Willoughby of Newton-on-Trent, youngest son of Charles Willoughby, 2nd Baron Willoughby of Parham; later seated at Old Lord's, Horwich

Armiger: Thomas Willoughby, retrospectively 1st Baron Willoughby of Parham of the 1680 creation, and the Lancashire line through Hugh Willoughby

Issued / recorded: 9 December 1679

Blazon: Or, fretty Azure.

Variant: Historic Variant

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Willoughby of Horwich — Hugh Willoughby, 15th Baron, Shaw Place and Royal Society armorial continuation

Class: Peer

Branch: Direct male continuation of the Horwich branch from Charles, 14th Baron; final male heir of the branch

Armiger: Hugh Willoughby, 15th Baron Willoughby of Parham

Issued / recorded: 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. A surviving or reported achievement is described as impaling or being shown with Davenport of Darcy Lever; the exact Davenport half should be verified before formal normalization.

Variant: Historic Variant

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Willoughby–Leigh of Shaw Place — Hugh Willoughby and Honora Leigh matrimonial achievement

Class: Peer

Branch: Shaw Place household and second-marriage branch of Hugh Willoughby

Armiger: Hugh Willoughby, 12th Baron Willoughby of Parham, and Honora Leigh, widow of Sir William Egerton

Issued / recorded: 1692

Blazon: Willoughby: Or, fretty Azure, with the traditional crest, supporters and motto of the Parham family, juxtaposed with the scutcheon and crest of Leigh of Stoneleigh. The Leigh blazon is not supplied in the surviving published account and should not be reconstructed without the carving or a heraldic source.

Variant: Impalement

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Willoughby of Horwich — Hugh Willoughby, 12th Baron, College of Arms pedigree and seal achievement

Class: Peer

Branch: Lancashire collateral branch descended from Sir Thomas Willoughby, youngest son of Charles, 2nd Baron; Horwich and Shaw Place line

Armiger: Hugh Willoughby, 12th Baron Willoughby of Parham, de facto holder of the 1680 writ barony

Issued / recorded: 1690

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. On special occasions Hugh also used a seal quartering the Willoughby shield with seven additional ancestral or matrimonial scutcheons, beginning with Beke of Eresby; the complete quartered blazon has not been recovered from the surviving published evidence.

Variant: Historic Variant

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Willoughby of Horwich and Shaw Place — Lancashire collateral branch from Sir Thomas Willoughby, youngest son of Charles, 2nd Baron

Class: Armigerous Gentry

Branch: Horwich, Rivington, Heath Charnock and Shaw Place

Armiger: The Lancashire Willoughby branch descended from Sir Thomas Willoughby through Thomas Willoughby of Horwich and the successive Lords Willoughby of the 1680 writ

Issued / recorded: c.1600

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: Cadet

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Senior male-line Virginia succession from Sir Ambrose Willoughby — confirmed agnatic branch and heraldic continuity

Class: Peer

Branch: Senior male-line Virginia succession; Matson–Soulbury–Rappahannock–Parham line

Armiger: The senior male-line Virginia succession from Sir Ambrose Willoughby through Edward Willoughby, Henry Willoughby of Rappahannock, Henry Willoughby of London and Henry Willoughby, 16th Baron

Issued / recorded: 1603

Blazon: Or, fretty Azure.

Variant: Cadet

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Willoughby of Virginia — colonial Rappahannock branch descended from Sir Ambrose Willoughby and the senior hereditary claim to the Parham barony

Class: Armigerous Gentry

Branch: Virginia and Rappahannock branch descended from Sir Ambrose Willoughby of Matson

Armiger: The male-line Virginia branch descending from Sir Ambrose Willoughby through Edward Willoughby, Henry Willoughby of Hull's Creek, and Henry Willoughby the successful claimant

Issued / recorded: 1603

Blazon: Or, fretty Azure. Crest, in the source-specific Parham form, a Saracen's head affrontée couped at the shoulders Proper, ducally crowned Or. Where a complete peerage achievement was displayed, supporters were: 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: Cadet

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Willoughby of Matson, Soulbury and Virginia — principal cadet branch descended from Sir Ambrose Willoughby

Class: Armigerous Gentry

Branch: Matson–Soulbury–Virginia branch descended from Sir Ambrose Willoughby, second son of Charles Willoughby, 2nd Baron Willoughby of Parham

Armiger: The male-line descendants of Sir Ambrose Willoughby of Matson

Issued / recorded: c. 1560

Blazon: Or, fretty Azure. Crest, in the source-specific Parham form, a Saracen's head affrontée couped at the shoulders Proper, ducally crowned Or. Supporters, where a full peerage achievement was displayed: 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: Cadet

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