England; Lincolnshire and the Peterborough fee
Philip de Neville of Scotton — four-fusil seal variant
- Family / house
- Neville of Scotton; Neville of Manton; Neville of Essex
- Family / cadet branch
- Scotton branch, son and heir of Robert de Neville
- Armiger / bearer
- Philip de Neville of Scotton, knight
- Entity type
- individual
- Social rank / class
- knight
- Heraldic authority
- British Museum seal evidence and medieval charter material
- Record basis
- recording
- Issued / first recorded
- fourteenth century
- Until / superseded
- 1346
- Historical period
- Plantagenet England
- Blazon
- Gules, a fess of four fusils Argent, within a border; later armorial descriptions render the branch with three fusils and a bordure engrailed Or.
- Plain-English description
- A red shield with four joined white diamond-shaped fusils across the middle, surrounded by a border. Later sources simplify the branch to three fusils with a gold engrailed border.
- Tinctures
- Gules; Argent; Or
- Charges / ordinaries
- fusils; fess; border
- Exterior ornaments
- Seal impression or seal catalogue evidence.
- Difference / variant
- Individual seal evidence for Philip differs from later General Armory formulations. It should be retained as an individual historical rendering rather than treated as an error.
- Source reference
- Northamptonshire Record Society, Book of Seals
- Source
- Open source
Genealogical context
- Father
- Robert de Neville of Scotton
Documented depiction
Notes / sources
This should be linked to the family-level Scotton record as a historical armorial variant, not merged into the later three-fusil blazon.