Family / house

Wray

Family / cadet branch

Glentworth founder and senior Lincolnshire line

Armiger / bearer

Sir Christopher Wray of Glentworth

Entity type

individual

Social rank / class

armigerous_gentry

Heraldic authority

Robert Cooke, Clarenceux King of Arms

Record basis

grant

Issued / first recorded

30 December 1586

Until / superseded

7 May 1592

Historical period

Elizabethan England

Grant / record reference

Patent of arms by Robert Cooke, Clarenceux King of Arms, dated 30 December 1586.

Blazon

Azure, on a chief Or three martlets Gules.

Plain-English description

Blue with a gold chief bearing three red martlets.

Tinctures

Azure; Or; Gules

Charges / ordinaries

three martlets

Crest

An ostrich Or.

Motto

ET JUSTE ET VRAY.

Exterior ornaments

Knightly achievement; later family use incorporated the arms into the baronetical succession founded by his son.

Difference / variant

This is the documented grant form and the parent design for the later Glentworth, Ashby and Barlings descendants.

Source reference

Dictionary of National Biography

Linked historical person

Sir Christopher Wray

Source

Open source

Genealogical context

Spouse(s)

Anne Girlington, daughter of Nicholas Girlington of Normanby, Yorkshire

Children / next generation

Sir William Wray, 1st Baronet of Glentworth

Documented depiction

Open depiction source

Notes / sources