England
Willoughby–Middleton of Wollaton and Middleton — Thomas Willoughby, 1st Baron Middleton
- Family / house
- Willoughby; Willoughby of Middleton; Willoughby of Wollaton; Middleton
- Family / cadet branch
- Wollaton and Middleton branch descended from Sir Francis Willoughby of Wollaton
- Armiger / bearer
- Thomas Willoughby, 1st Baron Middleton
- Entity type
- cadet_branch
- Social rank / class
- peer
- Heraldic authority
- Letters patent creating the barony of Middleton, 1 January 1711/12
- Record basis
- grant
- Issued / first recorded
- 1711/12-01-01
- Until / superseded
- 1729
- Historical period
- Queen Anne and early Georgian period
- Grant / record reference
- Letters patent creating Baron Middleton, 1 January 1711/12
- Blazon
- Quarterly: 1st and 4th, Or, fretty Azure, for Willoughby of Parham; 2nd and 3rd, Or, on two bars Gules three water-bougets Argent, two and one, for Willoughby of Middleton.
- Plain-English description
- The first and fourth quarters show the gold shield with blue lattice of the Parham/Eresby Willoughbys; the second and third show three silver water-buckets on two red bars on gold.
- Tinctures
- Or; Azure; Gules; Argent
- Charges / ordinaries
- Fretty; Two bars; Three water-bougets
- Crest
- The bust of a man couped at the shoulders and affrontée Proper, ducally crowned Or.
- Motto
- VÉRITÉ SANS PEUR.
- Exterior ornaments
- Supporters: dexter, a pilgrim or grey friar Proper with beads and staff; sinister, a savage with club, wreathed with laurel, each holding a banner charged with the owl crest of Willoughby of Middleton.
- Difference / variant
- A distinct quartered achievement combining the Parham/Eresby Willoughby arms with the water-bouget arms of the Middleton/Wollaton branch, formerly associated with Bugge.
- Source reference
- Cracroft's Peerage, Middleton
- Source
- Open source
Genealogical context
- Father
- Francis Willoughby of Wollaton and Middleton
- Mother
- Emma Bernard
- Spouse(s)
- Elizabeth Rothwell, daughter and coheiress of Sir Richard Rothwell
- Children / next generation
- Francis Willoughby, 2nd Baron Middleton; Thomas Willoughby, whose descendants included Henry Willoughby, 5th Baron Middleton
Notes / sources
This is an important upward and collateral heraldic connection: the Parham/Eresby field is not confined to the Parham title but appears as the first and fourth quarters of the later Middleton achievement.