England; Lincolnshire, Yorkshire and the Peterborough fee
Neville of Scotton — fusil-differenced Lincolnshire cadet branch
- Family / house
- Neville of Scotton; Neville of Manton; Neville of Malmeton; Neville of Grimsthorpe; Neville of Essex
- Family / cadet branch
- Neville of Scotton and Manton, Lincolnshire
- Armiger / bearer
- The Neville family of Scotton, represented by Robert and Philip de Neville
- Entity type
- cadet_branch
- Social rank / class
- landed_gentry
- Heraldic authority
- Medieval seals, Book of Fees, Northamptonshire Record Society seal catalogue and armorial rolls
- Record basis
- ancient_usage
- Issued / first recorded
- c.1201
- Until / superseded
- fourteenth century
- Historical period
- Plantagenet England
- Blazon
- Gules, three fusils in fess Argent, a bordure engrailed Or. Medieval seal evidence also records a fess of four or five fusils within a border.
- Plain-English description
- A red shield bearing three joined white diamond-shaped fusils across the centre, surrounded by a gold engrailed border; medieval witnesses vary in the number of fusils.
- Tinctures
- Gules; Argent; Or
- Charges / ordinaries
- fusils; bordure engrailed
- Difference / variant
- The Scotton branch uses fusils rather than the Raby saltire. The number of fusils varies between witnesses, so three-fusil and four/five-fusil renderings should be retained as historical variants rather than silently harmonized.
- Source reference
- Northamptonshire Record Society, Book of Seals
- Source
- Open source
Genealogical context
- Children / next generation
- Philip de Neville, knight, son and heir
Documented depiction
Notes / sources
The armorial variation is itself historically valuable. Create separate variant records for three-fusil, four-fusil and five-fusil witnesses where the associated armiger is identifiable.