England; Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Shropshire and the English peerage
Neville of Furnival — Thomas Neville's martlet-differenced cadet branch
- Family / house
- Neville of Raby; Neville of Furnival; Furnival; Talbot of Shrewsbury
- Family / cadet branch
- Furnival cadet branch from Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland's first-family line
- Armiger / bearer
- Thomas Neville, jure uxoris 5th Baron Furnival
- Entity type
- cadet_branch
- Social rank / class
- peer
- Heraldic authority
- English medieval armorial rolls; Dictionary of British Arms; peerage tradition
- Record basis
- recording
- Issued / first recorded
- c.1390
- Until / superseded
- 1420
- Historical period
- Late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries
- Blazon
- Gules, on a saltire Argent a martlet Sable.
- Plain-English description
- A red shield with the Neville white saltire charged at the centre with a black martlet.
- Tinctures
- Gules; Argent; Sable
- Charges / ordinaries
- Saltire; Martlet
- Crest
- A Neville bull's-head form may have been used, but a securely individualised crest has not been located.
- Exterior ornaments
- Baronial achievement through the Furnival marriage; the arms later entered the Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury, quartering tradition through Maud Neville.
- Difference / variant
- The black martlet is the cadency mark associated with Thomas Neville's Furnival branch and is plausibly related to the Furnival coat, Argent, a bend between six martlets Gules.
- Source reference
- Wikimedia Commons, Neville Baron Furnival arms
- Source
- Open source
Genealogical context
- Father
- John Neville, 3rd Baron Neville of Raby
- Mother
- Maud Percy
- Spouse(s)
- Joan Furnival
- Children / next generation
- Maud Neville, suo jure 6th Baroness Furnival
Documented depiction
Notes / sources
The barony was transmitted through Maud Neville to John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury; the later Talbot achievement should be treated as a separate marshalling record.