Family / house

Zouche of Harringworth; la Zouche; Zouche of Ashby and North Molton

Family / cadet branch

Harringworth, Northamptonshire

Armiger / bearer

The Zouche family of Harringworth, including William la Zouche, 1st Baron Zouche of Harringworth

Entity type

family

Social rank / class

peer

Heraldic authority

Medieval rolls and later heraldic compilations

Record basis

ancient_usage

Issued / first recorded

13th century

Until / superseded

present as an armorial historical identity

Historical period

Medieval to early modern England

Blazon

Gules, ten bezants, four, three, two and one, a canton Ermine.

Plain-English description

A red shield covered with ten gold roundels in descending rows of four, three, two and one, with an ermine canton.

Tinctures

Gules; Or; Argent; Sable

Charges / ordinaries

ten bezants; canton Ermine

Difference / variant

The Harringworth line's ermine canton is a cadet distinction from the bezanty arms associated with the senior Zouche lines of Ashby and North Molton. Later baronial achievements and modern reconstructions may show different quarterings or heraldic ornaments.

Source reference

Cracroft's Peerage, Zouche of Haryngworth

Source

Open source

Genealogical context

Father

Eudo la Zouche

Mother

Millicent de Cantilupe

Spouse(s)

Maud Lovel; Joan Leybourne

Children / next generation

Eudo la Zouche, ancestor of the later Harringworth succession

Documented depiction

Open depiction source

Notes / sources