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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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Paulet of Basing — William Paulet, Lord St John of Basing, heir apparent to the 3rd Marquess and pre-succession cadet form

Class: Peer

Branch: Paulet of Basing and Hackwood; heir apparent and eldest son of William Paulet, 3rd Marquess of Winchester

Armiger: William Paulet, Lord St John of Basing, later William Paulet, 4th Marquess of Winchester

Issued / recorded: 1576

Blazon: Sable, three swords in pile, points in base Argent, hilted Gules, a crescent for a difference. Other authorities and period representations give the sword hilts and pomels Or; the base Paulet coat is also recorded with the swords Argent, pomelled and hilted Or.

Variant: Cadet

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Perceval–Lovel of Egmont — John James Perceval, 3rd Earl of Egmont

Class: Peer

Branch: Senior succession of the Perceval–Lovel Egmont line, descended through Lady Catherine Cecil's eldest son

Armiger: John James Perceval, 3rd Earl of Egmont

Issued / recorded: 4 December 1770

Blazon: Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Argent, on a chief indented Gules three crosses patée of the field; 2nd and 3rd, Barry nebuly of six Or and Gules.

Variant: Same Design

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Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland — Neville of Latimer quarter incorporated into the Percy succession

Class: Peer

Branch: Percy of Northumberland through Katherine Neville's eldest-son succession

Armiger: Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland, KG

Issued / recorded: 1564

Blazon: Quarterly of six: 1st, grand-quarterly, 1st and 4th, Or, a lion rampant Azure, and 2nd and 3rd, Gules, three luces haurient Argent, for Percy and Lucy; 2nd, Azure, five fusils in fess Or, for ancient Percy; 3rd, Barry of six Or and Vert, a bendlet Gules, for Poynings; 4th, Gules, three lions passant in pale Argent, a bend Azure, for FitzPayne; 5th, Sable, two bars nebully Ermine, for Bryan or the associated inherited quartering tradition; 6th, Gules, a saltire Argent, an annulet Sable for difference, for Neville of Latimer.

Variant: Marshalling

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Pierrepont–Wellesley — Augusta Sophia Anne Pierrepont and the Wellington-connected continuation

Class: Armigerous Gentry

Branch: Only-child continuation of the Sophia Cecil–Henry Manvers Pierrepont marriage; Wellesley matrimonial branch

Armiger: Augusta Sophia Anne Pierrepont, later Lady Charles Wellesley

Issued / recorded: 1820

Blazon: No separate personal shield for Augusta has been securely located. In matrimonial context her paternal Pierrepont arms were available for representation with the Wellesley arms of her husband, Major-General Lord Charles Wellesley. The Pierrepont component is Argent semée of cinquefoils Gules, a lion rampant Sable.

Variant: Marshalling

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Scott of Eldon–Cecil — Lady Gertrude Louisa Scott and the Rockley collateral marriage branch

Class: Peer

Branch: Eldon–Cecil marriage; later Rockley collateral line

Armiger: Lady Gertrude Louisa Scott and Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Eustace Brownlow Henry Gascoyne-Cecil

Issued / recorded: 1860

Blazon: Marital combination: dexter, Argent, three lions' heads erased Gules, two and one, between the upper ones an anchor erect Sable, on a chief wavy Azure a portcullis with chains Or, for Scott of Eldon; sinister, 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, a crescent Gules for difference, for Cecil of Salisbury, with the Gascoyne quarters where the complete Gascoyne-Cecil achievement is used.

Variant: Impalement

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Sidney of Penshurst and Leicester — Robert Sidney, 4th Earl of Leicester

Class: Peer

Branch: Sidney of Penshurst, maternally descended from the Salisbury Cecils through Lady Catherine Cecil

Armiger: Robert Sidney, 4th Earl of Leicester

Issued / recorded: 1649

Blazon: Or, a pheon Azure. Crest: A porcupine Azure, quilled, collared and chained Or. Supporters: Dexter, a lion Azure collared and chained Or, ducally crowned per pale Argent and Gules; sinister, a lion guardant Argent, ducally crowned Or. Motto: QUO FATA VOCANT.

Variant: Same Design

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Southwell of Castle Hamilton — inheritance from Margaret Cecil Hamilton

Class: Peer

Branch: Southwell of Castle Hamilton, deriving estate succession through Margaret Cecil Hamilton

Armiger: Thomas George Southwell, 1st Viscount Southwell, and Robert Henry Southwell of Castle Hamilton

Issued / recorded: 1741

Blazon: Southwell arms are not reconstructed here from the sources consulted. The armorial fact securely established for this subject is the marital and estate transmission from Margaret Cecil Hamilton, not a new Cecil-Hamilton quartering.

Variant: Marshalling

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Twisleton–Fiennes of Broughton — restored Barony of Saye and Sele and the composite Fiennes–Twisleton arms

Class: Peer

Branch: Saye and Sele barony restored through Cecil Twisleton and her Twisleton descendants

Armiger: Thomas Twisleton, 13th Baron Saye and Sele, and the later Twisleton–Wykeham–Fiennes succession

Issued / recorded: 29 June 1781

Blazon: Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Azure, three lions rampant Or, for Fiennes; 2nd and 3rd, Argent, a chevron between three moles Sable, for Twisleton. Later baronetary forms may add a canton of Ulster; the complete achievement varies by holder.

Variant: Quartering

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Amherst of Hackney — Mary Rothes Margaret Cecil, 2nd Baroness, special-remainder heiress and Exeter-Cecil matrimonial transmitter

Class: Peer

Branch: Tyssen-Amherst of Didlington and Foulden; later Cecil-Amherst of Foulden and Hackney

Armiger: Mary Rothes Margaret Cecil, née Mary Rothes Margaret Tyssen-Amherst, 2nd Baroness Amherst of Hackney, OBE

Issued / recorded: 1892-08-26

Blazon: Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Barry of ten Argent and Azure, six escutcheons Sable, three, two and one, each charged with a lion rampant Argent, a mullet for difference, for Cecil; 2nd and 3rd, Gules, three tilting spears two and one Or, headed Argent, for Amherst. Crest: On a chapeau Gules turned up Ermine, a garb Or supported by two lions rampant, the dexter Argent and the sinister Azure. Supporters: On either side a heron Proper, collared Or. Motto: COR UNUM VIA UNA.

Variant: Marshalling

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Buckingham — George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, Restoration continuation of the Villiers six-quarter achievement

Class: Peer

Branch: Buckingham ducal succession

Armiger: George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, KG

Issued / recorded: 23 August 1628

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

Variant: Same Design

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Purbeck succession — Robert Villiers and the posthumous claim of Robert Danvers's son

Class: Other Historical

Branch: Danvers-Villiers collateral succession from Robert Danvers and Elizabeth Danvers

Armiger: Robert Villiers, styled 3rd Viscount Purbeck

Issued / recorded: 1675

Blazon: No securely documented personal blazon has been located for Robert Villiers. His paternal context connected him with Argent, on a cross Gules five escallops Or, while his father's Protectorate-era identity connected him with the assumed Danvers arms. Neither coat should be assigned as a definitive personal achievement without a direct contemporary record.

Variant: Cadet

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