England; Northamptonshire, Lincolnshire, Kent and the English Peerage
Edward la Zouche, 11th Baron Zouche of Harringworth — Elizabethan peerage achievement
- Family / house
- Zouche of Harringworth; Welby; Harington; Hastings; Kingsmill; Cecil
- Family / cadet branch
- Harringworth; final agnatic baronial line
- Armiger / bearer
- Edward la Zouche, 11th Baron Zouche of Harringworth and 12th Baron St Maur
- Entity type
- individual
- Social rank / class
- peer
- Heraldic authority
- Dictionary of National Biography; Elizabethan armorial sources; Complete Peerage
- Record basis
- ancient_usage
- Issued / first recorded
- 1569
- Until / superseded
- 1625
- Historical period
- Elizabethan and early Stuart England
- Grant / record reference
- Succeeded his father George la Zouche in 1569; barony fell into abeyance at his death in 1625.
- Blazon
- Gules, ten bezants, four, three, two and one, a canton Ermine.
- Plain-English description
- Red with ten gold bezants in descending rows and the white ermine canton of Harringworth.
- Tinctures
- Gules; Or; Argent; Sable
- Charges / ordinaries
- ten bezants; canton Ermine
- Crest
- A falcon with wings expanded, standing on a tree trunk or branch, as recorded in Elizabethan armorial material.
- Exterior ornaments
- Elizabethan depictions may show a baronial coronet and supporters. The Central Archaeological source records a falcon crest and the shield as twelve bezants in one variant, but the standard Harringworth blazon remains ten bezants with canton Ermine.
- Difference / variant
- The Elizabethan armorial record shows a period variation in the number of bezants, described there as twelve bezants, while other peerage and heraldic sources preserve the standard ten-bezant form. This should be retained as a documented historic variant, not silently normalized.
- Source reference
- Dictionary of National Biography, Edward la Zouche
- Linked historical person
- Edward la Zouche, 11th Baron Zouche of Harringworth
- Source
- Open source
Genealogical context
- Father
- George la Zouche, 10th Baron Zouche
- Mother
- Margaret Welby
- Spouse(s)
- Eleanor Zouche; Sarah Harington
- Children / next generation
- Elizabeth la Zouche, wife of Sir William Tate; Mary la Zouche, wife of Thomas Leighton and later William Connard
Documented depiction
Notes / sources
The possible twelve-bezant Elizabethan reading should remain a historic variant until the underlying armorial source is compared directly with the standard ten-bezant Harringworth form.