England; Northamptonshire, Leicestershire and the English heraldic jurisdiction
Zouche of Harringworth — differenced cadet design with canton Ermine
- Family / house
- Zouche of Harringworth; la Zouche of Ashby; la Zouche of North Molton; Zouche of Haryngworth
- Family / cadet branch
- Harringworth baronial branch descended from Eudo or Ivo la Zouche, younger son of Alan la Zouche of Ashby
- Armiger / bearer
- William la Zouche, 1st Baron Zouche of Harringworth, and the Harringworth baronial branch
- Entity type
- cadet_branch
- Social rank / class
- peer
- Heraldic authority
- English medieval armorial tradition; later heraldic compilations including Burke's General Armory
- Record basis
- ancient_usage
- Issued / first recorded
- c.1276
- Until / superseded
- 1352 and thereafter in the Harringworth baronial line
- Historical period
- late thirteenth to modern historical record
- Blazon
- Gules, ten bezants, four, three, two and one, a canton Ermine.
- Plain-English description
- A red shield bearing ten gold roundels arranged four, three, two and one, with a white ermine canton in the upper corner. The ermine canton differentiates the Harringworth branch from the principal Ashby and North Molton Zouche arms.
- Tinctures
- Gules; Or; Ermine
- Charges / ordinaries
- ten bezants arranged four, three, two and one; canton Ermine
- Difference / variant
- The Harringworth coat retains the principal Zouche field and bezants but adds a canton Ermine. Medieval and later sources variously call the distinction a canton or a quarter; the design is materially the same in the cited records.
- Source reference
- Wikimedia Commons, Zouche of Harringworth arms
- Source
- Open source
Genealogical context
- Father
- Eudo or Ivo la Zouche, younger son of Alan la Zouche of Ashby
- Mother
- Millicent de Cantilupe
- Spouse(s)
- Maud Lovell; Joan Leybourne
- Children / next generation
- Eudo la Zouche, whose son William became 2nd Baron Zouche of Harringworth; John la Zouche; Roger la Zouche; Thomas la Zouche; Millicent la Zouche
Documented depiction
Notes / sources
The Ermine canton should be treated as a branch difference, not as evidence of a separate grant to every later bearer. The design is securely associated with Harringworth, but the exact medieval legal mechanism by which the distinction was adopted is not established by the sources located.