England; Derbyshire, Codnor and Heanor; English heraldic jurisdiction
Zouche of Codnor — Derbyshire collateral branch descended from Harringworth
- Family / house
- Zouche of Codnor; Zouche of Harringworth; Grey of Codnor; la Zouche of Ashby
- Family / cadet branch
- Zouche of Codnor Castle, Derbyshire
- Armiger / bearer
- The Zouche family of Codnor, beginning with Sir John Zouche and continuing through the George Zouche and later Codnor lines
- Entity type
- cadet_branch
- Social rank / class
- landed_gentry
- Heraldic authority
- English heraldic visitation and armorial tradition; corroborated by Derbyshire antiquarian records and the Codnor family pedigree
- Record basis
- recording
- Issued / first recorded
- c.1429
- Until / superseded
- 1634
- Historical period
- Late medieval to early Stuart England
- Blazon
- Gules, ten bezants, four, three, two and one, a canton Ermine. Earlier and contemporary records sometimes vary the number or arrangement of bezants, including nine, eleven or an unspecified bezanty field.
- Plain-English description
- A red shield bearing ten gold roundels arranged four, three, two and one, with a white ermine-patterned canton in the upper corner. The canton distinguishes this younger Harringworth-derived branch from the senior Ashby line.
- Tinctures
- Gules; Or; Argent; Sable
- Charges / ordinaries
- Ten bezants; Canton Ermine
- Crest
- The Codnor branch used varying personal and period badges. A falcon or peacock device is associated with later Codnor members, but a single hereditary crest for the whole branch is not securely established from the sources reviewed.
- Difference / variant
- The Codnor family represents a collateral offshoot of the Harringworth Zouches. Its defining armorial feature is the ermine canton, retained from the Harringworth collateral distinction and separate from the undifferenced bezanty arms of the senior Ashby/North Molton line.
- Source reference
- Codnor family pedigree
- Source
- Open source
Genealogical context
Documented depiction
Notes / sources
This is a distinct Codnor branch finding rather than a repetition of the Harringworth, Ansty or Woking records. The traditional descent from Harringworth is strong, but the precise early fifteenth-century succession should be checked against primary inquisitions post mortem, Grey inheritance records and contemporary pedigrees.