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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–Shaw of Anglezarke — Elizabeth Willoughby, coheir and transmitter of the Shaw Place connection

Class: Armigerous Gentry

Branch: Female-line coheir branch from Charles, 14th Baron, through his daughter Elizabeth; Shaw Place and Anglezarke connection

Armiger: Elizabeth Willoughby, coheir of Hugh Willoughby, 15th Baron Willoughby of Parham, wife of John Shaw

Issued / recorded: 1765

Blazon: Inherited Willoughby component: Or, fretty Azure, with the traditional crest and motto where displayed in a matrimonial achievement. The Shaw arms are not supplied because the accessible sources do not provide a sufficiently authoritative blazon for the specific Anglezarke branch.

Variant: Marshalling

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Elizabeth Willoughby of Knaith — heiress-general and Bertie succession after the male Parham line

Class: Armigerous Gentry

Branch: Knaith Hall and late Parham succession

Armiger: Elizabeth Willoughby, sole surviving daughter and eventual heiress of George Willoughby, 7th Baron Willoughby of Parham

Issued / recorded: 5 January 1691/2

Blazon: Impalement reconstructed from the documented marriage: dexter, Or, fretty Azure, for Willoughby of Parham; sinister, Argent, three battering rams fesswise in pale Or, headed, armed and garnished Azure, for Bertie.

Variant: Marshalling

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Betenson–Hewett of Scadbury and Pishiobury — Frances Betenson’s Wray-Cecil descendant marriage

Class: Baronet

Branch: Wray-Cecil female-line descendant through Albinia Wray and Richard Betenson into the Hewett baronetage

Armiger: Frances Betenson and Sir Thomas Hewett, 1st Baronet

Issued / recorded: 7 September 1689

Blazon: Hewett paternal arms require separate verification. Frances Betenson’s inherited Wray-Cecil component is genealogical and should not be substituted for her husband’s paternal shield.

Variant: Marshalling

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Wray–Betenson of Scadbury — Albinia Wray’s coheiress transmission into the Kent landed family

Class: Armigerous Gentry

Branch: Female-line Wray branch from Albinia Cecil transmitting into the Betenson household of Scadbury

Armiger: Albinia Wray and Richard Betenson of Scadbury

Issued / recorded: 1656

Blazon: Wray component: Azure, on a chief Or three martlets Gules. The Betenson counterpart has not been securely normalized from an authoritative heraldic source.

Variant: Marshalling

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Wray–Vane of Fairlawn and Raby — Frances Wray and Sir Henry Vane the Younger, female cadet continuation

Class: Armigerous Gentry

Branch: Frances Wray, daughter of Sir Christopher Wray and Albinia Cecil, married into the Vane family of Fairlawn and Raby

Armiger: Frances Wray and Sir Henry Vane the Younger

Issued / recorded: 1640-07-01

Blazon: Vane, Azure, three sinister gauntlets Or, impaling Wray, Azure, on a chief Or three martlets Gules. The joint shield is reconstructed from the documented family coats; no separate surviving marriage achievement has been located.

Variant: Impalement

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Wray–Cecil of Ashby and Barlings — marital impalement of Sir Christopher Wray and Albinia Cecil

Class: Knight

Branch: Wray of Ashby and Barlings married into the third-son Cecil branch of Exeter through Albinia Cecil

Armiger: Sir Christopher Wray of Ashby and Barlings and Albinia Cecil

Issued / recorded: 1623-08-03

Blazon: Dexter, Azure, on a chief Or three martlets Gules, for Wray; 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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Zouch–Cecil of Wimbledon — Sophia Zouch and Edward Cecil, 1st Viscount Wimbledon

Class: Peer

Branch: Wimbledon branch of Cecil of Exeter through the third son of Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter

Armiger: Sophia Zouch and Edward Cecil, 1st Viscount Wimbledon

Issued / recorded: September 1635

Blazon: Reconstructed matrimonial impalement: dexter, Cecil, Barry of ten Argent and Azure, over all six escutcheons Sable, three, two and one, each charged with a lion rampant Argent; sinister, Zouch of Woking, Gules, ten bezants, four, three, two and one, a canton Ermine.

Variant: Impalement

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Zouch of Woking and Hoe Bridge — inherited arms of Sophia Zouch's paternal house

Class: Armigerous Gentry

Branch: Woking and Hoe Bridge branch of the Zouches, traditionally descended from a younger Harringworth line

Armiger: Sir Edward Zouch of Woking and the Woking male line, inherited by Sophia as a daughter

Issued / recorded: early seventeenth century

Blazon: Gules, ten bezants, four, three, two and one, a canton Ermine. Crest: A falcon with wings expanded Argent, standing upon a branch raguly Or. Supporters: Two falcons with wings expanded Argent. Motto: VINCIT QUI PATITUR.

Variant: Cadet

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Sophia Zouch of Woking — Zouch daughter and third-son Exeter Cecil matrimonial connection

Class: Armigerous Gentry

Branch: Zouch of Woking and Hoe Bridge; matrimonial connection to the Wimbledon cadet branch of Cecil of Exeter

Armiger: Sophia Zouch, later Sophia Cecil and Sophia King, Dowager Viscountess Wimbledon

Issued / recorded: c.1618

Blazon: Paternal arms: Gules, ten bezants, four, three, two and one, a canton Ermine. In matrimonial context, Sophia's paternal Zouch arms could be impaled with the Cecil arms of her first husband, Edward Cecil: Barry of ten Argent and Azure, over all six escutcheons Sable, three, two and one, each charged with a lion rampant Argent.

Variant: Marshalling

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Zouche of Codnor — Derbyshire collateral branch descended from Harringworth

Class: Landed Gentry

Branch: Zouche of Codnor Castle, Derbyshire

Armiger: The Zouche family of Codnor, beginning with Sir John Zouche and continuing through the George Zouche and later Codnor lines

Issued / recorded: c.1429

Blazon: Gules, ten bezants, four, three, two and one, a canton Ermine. Earlier and contemporary records sometimes vary the number or arrangement of bezants, including nine, eleven or an unspecified bezanty field.

Variant: Cadet

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