England; Nottinghamshire, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Derbyshire, Hampshire and the Peerage of Great Britain
Pierrepont of Holme Pierrepont and the Earls Manvers — principal family arms
- Family / house
- Pierrepont of Holme Pierrepont; Pierrepont of Thoresby; Earls of Kingston-upon-Hull; Dukes of Kingston-upon-Hull; Earls Manvers
- Family / cadet branch
- Pierrepont of Holme Pierrepont; Manvers earldom from the Medows-Pierrepont succession
- Armiger / bearer
- Charles Pierrepont, 1st Earl Manvers, and the senior Pierrepont/Manvers house
- Entity type
- family
- Social rank / class
- peer
- Heraldic authority
- English heraldic and peerage tradition; University of Nottingham Manvers Collection context
- Record basis
- ancient_usage
- Issued / first recorded
- medieval period
- Until / superseded
- 1955
- Historical period
- Medieval to twentieth-century England
- Blazon
- Argent semée of cinquefoils Gules, a lion rampant Sable.
- Plain-English description
- A silver shield covered with red cinquefoils bearing a black lion standing rampant.
- Tinctures
- Argent; Gules; Sable
- Charges / ordinaries
- cinquefoils; one rampant lion
- Crest
- A lion rampant Sable between two wings erect Argent.
- Motto
- PIE REPONE TE.
- Exterior ornaments
- The full peerage achievement may include the appropriate coronet, helmet, mantling and supporters. The Earls Manvers are recorded with two lions Sable armed and langued Gules as supporters in modern peerage armorial summaries.
- Difference / variant
- The same principal Pierrepont arms served the Pierrepont family, the Earls and Dukes of Kingston-upon-Hull, and the later Earls Manvers. The Manvers title was adopted by Charles Medows after he assumed the Pierrepont surname in 1788 and was created Earl Manvers in 1806.
- Source reference
- University of Nottingham, Manvers of Thoresby and Holme Pierrepont
- Source
- Open source
Genealogical context
- Father
- Philip Medows
- Mother
- Lady Frances Pierrepont
- Spouse(s)
- Anne Orton Mills (14 September 1756–24 August 1832)
- Children / next generation
- Charles Herbert Pierrepont, 2nd Earl Manvers; Henry Manvers Pierrepont (1780–1851); Philip Sydney Pierrepont; Frances Augusta Eliza Pierrepont
Documented depiction
Notes / sources
The principal shield is appropriate for the senior Pierrepont/Manvers family, but should not be presented as a newly granted coat to Charles Medows. The key historical fact is continuity of the Pierrepont arms through the Medows succession and the Manvers earldom.