England
Wray of Barlings — Sir Baptist Edward Wray, 8th Baronet of Glentworth
- Family / house
- Wray; Wray of Barlings; Horsey
- Family / cadet branch
- Wray of Barlings, later holder of the Glentworth baronetcy
- Armiger / bearer
- Sir Baptist Edward Wray, 8th Baronet
- Entity type
- individual
- Social rank / class
- baronet
- Heraldic authority
- George Edward Cokayne
- Record basis
- recording
- Issued / first recorded
- 1687
- Until / superseded
- 1689
- Historical period
- Restoration period
- Grant / record reference
- Inherited the 1611 Wray baronetcy as heir male after the death of Sir William Wray, 7th Baronet, c.1687.
- Blazon
- Azure, on a chief Or three martlets Gules.
- Plain-English description
- Blue with a gold chief bearing three red martlets; as a baronet's achievement, accompanied by the Ulster badge and the Wray ostrich crest.
- Tinctures
- Azure; Or; Gules
- Charges / ordinaries
- chief; three martlets
- Crest
- An ostrich Or.
- Motto
- ET JUSTE ET VRAY
- Exterior ornaments
- Baronet's canton of Ulster; helm, mantling and ostrich crest in the known Wray achievement.
- Difference / variant
- The Barlings succession became the 8th baronetcy succession of the senior Glentworth creation. It is a collateral continuation of the Albinia Cecil-descended Wray line, not a new baronetcy creation.
- Source reference
- Cokayne, Complete Baronetage, vol. III
- Linked historical person
- Sir Baptist Edward Wray, 8th Baronet
- Source
- Open source
Genealogical context
- Father
- Edward Wray of Barlings
- Mother
- Dorothy Horsey
Documented depiction
Notes / sources
The title was inherited, not newly created for Baptist. The baronetcy's extinction and subsequent succession are armorially significant because they transferred the senior Glentworth title into another son-line of Christopher Wray and Albinia Cecil.