England
Zouche of Harringworth — William la Zouche, first Harringworth baronial armiger
- Family / house
- Zouche; la Zouche of Harringworth; Zouche of Haryngworth
- Family / cadet branch
- Harringworth collateral line descended from Eudo la Zouche
- Armiger / bearer
- William la Zouche, 1st Baron Zouche of Harringworth
- Entity type
- individual
- Social rank / class
- peer
- Heraldic authority
- Medieval armorial tradition; peerage and county-history compilations; Wikimedia Commons heraldic reconstruction based on cited heraldic sources
- Record basis
- ancient_usage
- Issued / first recorded
- c.1308
- Until / superseded
- 1352
- Historical period
- Early fourteenth century
- Grant / record reference
- Barony by writ, first summoned in 1308; arms preserved in later heraldic sources and medieval armorial tradition
- Blazon
- Gules, ten bezants 4, 3, 2, 1, a canton Ermine.
- Plain-English description
- A red shield with ten gold bezants arranged four, three, two and one, with a small ermine canton in the upper corner.
- Tinctures
- Gules; Or; Ermine
- Charges / ordinaries
- Ten bezants arranged 4, 3, 2, 1; Canton Ermine
- Difference / variant
- The ermine canton distinguishes the Harringworth branch from the senior Ashby/North Molton Zouche bezanty. Later descriptions sometimes call the feature a quarter Ermine, but canton is the more precise ordinary term for the small upper-corner field.
- Source reference
- Wikimedia Commons, Zouche of Harringworth arms
- Linked historical person
- William la Zouche, 1st Baron Zouche of Harringworth
- Source
- Open source
Genealogical context
- Father
- Eudo la Zouche
- Mother
- Millicent de Cantilupe
- Spouse(s)
- Maud Lovel; Joan de Leybourne
- Children / next generation
- William la Zouche, later Baron Zouche of Harringworth; John la Zouche; Roger la Zouche; Thomas la Zouche
Documented depiction
Notes / sources
The distinction is best recorded as a canton Ermine in formal blazon. The user's phrase 'ermine quarter' reflects the Surrey record and older descriptive usage but should be normalised in the registry while preserving the source wording in notes.