Family / house

Noel of Dalby; Noel of Brooke; Noel of Whitwell; Palmer of Carlton; Barker of Hambleton

Family / cadet branch

Whitwell in Rutland; younger-son branch of Sir Andrew Noel of Dalby and Brooke

Armiger / bearer

Alexander Noel of Whitwell

Entity type

cadet_branch

Social rank / class

armigerous_gentry

Heraldic authority

Rutland visitation and county-history tradition

Record basis

recording

Issued / first recorded

1602

Until / superseded

1667

Historical period

Early Stuart period

Grant / record reference

Visitation of Rutland, 1681-82, Noel of Whitwell

Blazon

Or, fretty Gules, a canton Ermine.

Plain-English description

A gold shield with a red lattice and a white ermine-spotted canton.

Tinctures

Or; Gules; Ermine

Charges / ordinaries

fretty; canton; ermine spots

Crest

Not independently recovered for the Whitwell household.

Motto

TOUT BIEN OU RIEN

Difference / variant

Whitwell collateral branch descended from Alexander Noel, younger son of Sir Andrew Noel. The same Noel shield is documented; no separate mark of difference has been recovered.

Source reference

Noel of Campden, Dalby, Gainsborough, Luffenham and Whitwell genealogy

Source

Open source

Genealogical context

Father

Sir Andrew Noel of Dalby and Brooke

Mother

Mabel Harington

Spouse(s)

Mary Palmer, daughter of Thomas Palmer of Carlton, Northamptonshire

Children / next generation

Sir Andrew Noel of Whitwell; Mary Noel, wife of Sir Abel Barker of Hambleton; Alexander Noel; Julian Noel

Documented depiction

Open depiction source

Notes / sources