England
Wray of Glentworth — Sir William Wray, 1st Baronet
- Family / house
- Wray
- Family / cadet branch
- Glentworth senior line
- Armiger / bearer
- Sir William Wray, 1st Baronet of Glentworth
- Entity type
- individual
- Social rank / class
- baronet
- Heraldic authority
- Crown of England; inherited Wray grant
- Record basis
- grant
- Issued / first recorded
- 25 November 1611
- Until / superseded
- 13 August 1617
- Historical period
- Jacobean England
- Grant / record reference
- Created Baronet of Glentworth, 25 November 1611.
- Blazon
- Azure, on a chief Or three martlets Gules.
- Plain-English description
- Blue shield with a gold chief carrying three red martlets.
- Tinctures
- Azure; Or; Gules
- Charges / ordinaries
- three martlets
- Crest
- An ostrich Or.
- Motto
- ET JUSTE ET VRAY.
- Exterior ornaments
- Baronetical achievement; the shield could be displayed with the badge of a baronet of England.
- Difference / variant
- Inherited the 1586 Wray coat without a recorded cadency alteration.
- Source reference
- Cracroft's Peerage
- Linked historical person
- Sir William Wray, 1st Baronet of Glentworth
- Source
- Open source
Genealogical context
- Father
- Sir Christopher Wray
- Mother
- Anne Girlington
- Spouse(s)
- Lucy Montagu, daughter of Sir Edward Montagu of Boughton; Frances Drury, widow of Sir Nicholas Clifford and daughter of Sir William Drury of Hawsted
- Children / next generation
- Sir John Wray, 2nd Baronet; Sir Christopher Wray of Ashby and Barlings; Edward Wray; Elizabeth Wray; Frances Wray
Documented depiction
Notes / sources
The senior Glentworth baronetcy eventually passed through collateral male heirs after the direct senior succession failed.