England; Wiltshire, Oxfordshire and London; English heraldic jurisdiction
Zouche of Ansty — Richard Zouch and the surviving intellectual cadet continuation
- Family / house
- Zouche of Ansty; Zouche of Harringworth; Ludlow of Hill Deverill; Harte of Brill
- Family / cadet branch
- Ansty Zouche, third surviving son of Francis Zouche
- Armiger / bearer
- Richard Zouch, D.C.L., Regius Professor of Civil Law
- Entity type
- individual
- Social rank / class
- armigerous_gentry
- Heraldic authority
- Inherited Zouche arms; no separate personal grant located
- Record basis
- ancient_usage
- Issued / first recorded
- 1590
- Until / superseded
- 1 March 1661
- Historical period
- Early Stuart England and English Civil War
- Blazon
- Gules, ten bezants, four, three, two and one, a canton Ermine.
- Plain-English description
- The Harringworth Zouche arms inherited through his father: a red shield with ten gold roundels and an ermine canton.
- Tinctures
- Gules; Or; Argent; Sable
- Charges / ordinaries
- ten bezants; canton Ermine
- Difference / variant
- Richard was a younger son of the Ansty branch and retained the inherited Zouche armorial identity. No evidence of a separate personal differencing mark has been found.
- Source reference
- Dictionary of National Biography, Richard Zouche
- Linked historical person
- Richard Zouch
- Source
- Open source
Genealogical context
- Father
- Francis Zouche of Ansty
- Mother
- Philippa Ludlow
- Spouse(s)
- Sarah Harte
- Children / next generation
- Sarah Zouche; Katherine Zouche; Anne Zouche and other issue are recorded in later genealogical sources; the complete issue list requires verification from wills and parish records.
Documented depiction
Notes / sources
Richard is the strongest documented continuation of the Ansty branch. His legal and academic career makes him a reusable Historical Person, but his armorial record remains inherited rather than separately granted.