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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 — Robert Villiers, styled 3rd Viscount Purbeck, Liège claimant and final principal male-line claimant of the Danvers-Villiers branch

Class: Other Historical

Branch: Danvers-Villiers of Purbeck, issue of Robert Danvers alias Villiers and Elizabeth Danvers

Armiger: Robert Villiers, styled 3rd Viscount Purbeck

Issued / recorded: 14 March 1656/7

Blazon: No securely documented personal blazon has been located for Robert himself. His paternal family context gives either the Villiers arms, Argent, on a cross Gules five escallops Or, or the Danvers arms adopted by his father; neither can be assigned to Robert as a definitive personal achievement without a direct contemporary record.

Variant: Cadet

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Coke–Villiers of Purbeck — John Villiers and Frances Coke as a separate matrimonial armorial connection

Class: Peer

Branch: Purbeck marital connection between the Villiers cadet peerage and the Coke–Cecil heiress network

Armiger: John Villiers, 1st Viscount Purbeck, and Frances Coke, Viscountess Purbeck

Issued / recorded: 1617-09-29

Blazon: Villiers component: Quarterly of six, 1st, Argent, on a cross Gules five escallops Or; 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, crowned Or; 5th, Azure, a bend between six pierced mullets Argent; 6th, Argent, a cross, and in the first and fourth quarters an annulet Vert. Coke component in Frances Coke's paternal context: Per pale Gules and Azure, three eagles displayed Argent, with associated Coke quarterings in fuller achievements. The complete period-specific impalement of Villiers and Coke is not reconstructed here as a definitive shield.

Variant: Marshalling

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Wellesley–Cowley of Wellesley — Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley

Class: Peer

Branch: Wellesley of Wellesley and Cowley, younger-son branch of the Earls of Mornington

Armiger: Henry Wellesley, 1st Baron Cowley of Wellesley

Issued / recorded: 1828-01-21

Blazon: Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Gules, a cross Argent between in each quarter five plates in saltire, for Wellesley; 2nd and 3rd, Or, a lion rampant Gules ducally gorged Or, for Cowley or Colley.

Variant: Cadet

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Willoughby of Broke — Robert Willoughby, de jure heir to the older Latimer barony

Class: Peer

Branch: Willoughby of Broke, heir-general claim through Elizabeth Latimer

Armiger: Robert Willoughby, 1st Baron Willoughby de Broke, conventionally de jure 8th or 9th Baron Latimer

Issued / recorded: 1491

Blazon: Historic achievement at Callington: a grand quarter containing Quarterly of four, 1st and 4th Sable, a cross engrailed Or, 2nd and 3rd Gules, a cross moline Argent, with a crescent for difference; 2nd grand quarter Azure, a cross flory Or, for Paveley of Broke; 3rd Gules, four fusils in fess Argent each charged with an escallop Sable, for Cheyne of Broke; 4th Or, a chevron Gules, a bordure engrailed Sable, for Stafford.

Variant: Historic Variant

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Willoughby of Horwich — Hugh Willoughby's seven-quarter heraldic seal and College of Arms pedigree campaign

Class: Peer

Branch: Willoughby of Horwich and Worsley Hall

Armiger: Hugh Willoughby, retrospectively 2nd Baron of the 1680 creation

Issued / recorded: 1689-00-00

Blazon: Base shield: Or, fretty Azure. On special occasions Hugh used a seal quartering the Willoughby shield with seven additional ancestral or matrimonial scutcheons, beginning with Beke of Eresby. The complete sequence and formal order of all seven quarters are not securely recoverable from the accessible evidence and are therefore not normalized here.

Variant: Historic Variant

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Willoughby–Cecil of Parham — Francis Willoughby and Elizabeth Cecil, marital impalement

Class: Peer

Branch: Parham branch; marriage into the younger Wimbledon branch of the Cecil family

Armiger: Francis Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham, and Elizabeth Cecil, Baroness Willoughby of Parham

Issued / recorded: 1628

Blazon: Marital impalement: dexter, Or, fretty Azure, for Willoughby of Parham; sinister, Barry of ten Argent and Azure, over all six escutcheons Sable, three, two and one, each charged with a lion rampant Argent, for Cecil of Wimbledon and Putney.

Variant: Impalement

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Willoughby of Parham–Cecil of Wimbledon — Elizabeth Cecil's matrimonial transmission and the four-child cadet network

Class: Peer

Branch: Parham baronial household joined to the junior Wimbledon Cecil branch

Armiger: Francis Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham, and Elizabeth Cecil

Issued / recorded: 1628/1629

Blazon: Dexter, Willoughby: Or, fretty Azure; sinister, Cecil of Wimbledon: 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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Willoughby–Finch of Eastwell — Diana Willoughby and Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Winchilsea, 1645 matrimonial branch

Class: Peer

Branch: Willoughby of Parham–Finch of Eastwell marriage at Eastwell

Armiger: The Hon. Diana Willoughby and Heneage Finch, 3rd Earl of Winchilsea, 3rd Viscount Maidstone and 1st Baron FitzHerbert of Eastwell

Issued / recorded: 21 May 1645

Blazon: Reconstructed matrimonial impalement: dexter, Or fretty Azure, for Willoughby of Parham; sinister, Argent, a chevron between three griffins passant Sable, for Finch of Eastwell. This is a genealogical reconstruction, not a separately located patent or contemporary joint achievement.

Variant: Impalement

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Willoughby of Horwich — Edward Willoughby, successor to Hugh Willoughby in the Lancashire collateral barony

Class: Peer

Branch: Lancashire collateral branch descended from Thomas Willoughby, conventionally 11th Baron Willoughby of Parham, through his younger son Francis Willoughby; associated with Horwich, Heath Char

Armiger: Edward Willoughby, conventionally 13th Baron Willoughby of Parham; de jure 3rd Baron of the 1680 creation

Issued / recorded: 1712-08-01

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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Willoughby–Davenport of Horwich — Charles Willoughby, 14th Baron, and Hester Davenport matrimonial display

Class: Peer

Branch: Horwich and Shaw Place branch; succession through Francis Willoughby, younger brother of Hugh, 12th Baron

Armiger: Charles Willoughby, 14th Baron Willoughby of Parham, and Hester Davenport

Issued / recorded: 1705

Blazon: Willoughby: Or, fretty Azure, with the Parham crest, supporters and motto. Matrimonial counterpart: Davenport of Darcy Lever, blazon not securely recovered in the accessible sources. The surviving published evidence supports a Willoughby–Davenport matrimonial achievement but not a complete formal blazon.

Variant: Impalement

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Willoughby–Roscoe of Anglezarke — Helena Willoughby, coheir of Hugh, 15th Baron

Class: Armigerous Gentry

Branch: Female-line coheir branch from Charles, 14th Baron, through his daughter Helena

Armiger: Helena Willoughby, coheir of Hugh Willoughby, 15th Baron Willoughby of Parham, wife of Baxter Roscoe

Issued / recorded: 1765

Blazon: As a coheir and married woman, Helena's inherited Willoughby component was Or, fretty Azure, with the traditional Willoughby crest and motto where an achievement was displayed. Her husband's Roscoe arms have not been sufficiently verified here and are not supplied.

Variant: Marshalling

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