England; Buckinghamshire and Gloucestershire
Willoughby of Soulbury — Edward Willoughby, son and successor of Sir Ambrose
- Family / house
- Willoughby of Matson; Willoughby of Soulbury; Brooke; Pate; Draper
- Family / cadet branch
- Soulbury continuation of the Matson branch
- Armiger / bearer
- Edward Willoughby of Soulbury
- Entity type
- individual
- Social rank / class
- armigerous_gentry
- Heraldic authority
- Cracroft's Peerage and peerage genealogical compilations
- Record basis
- ancient_usage
- Issued / first recorded
- c. 1585
- Until / superseded
- 1650
- Historical period
- late Elizabethan and early Stuart England
- Blazon
- Or, fretty Azure.
- Plain-English description
- A gold shield covered by a blue lattice fret, inherited from the Willoughby of Parham paternal line.
- Tinctures
- Or; Azure
- Charges / ordinaries
- fret
- Crest
- The later family crest was a Saracen's head affrontée couped at the shoulders Proper, ducally crowned Or; direct personal use by Edward is not separately documented.
- Motto
- VERITÉ SANS PEUR
- Exterior ornaments
- No distinct personal achievement securely located.
- Difference / variant
- The Soulbury branch was the direct male-line continuation of Sir Ambrose's Matson branch and the immediate father-line of the Virginia claimant.
- Source reference
- The Peerage, Edward Willoughby of Soulbury
- Linked historical person
- Edward Willoughby of Soulbury
- Source
- Open source
Genealogical context
- Father
- Sir Ambrose Willoughby of Matson
- Mother
- Susanna Brooke
- Spouse(s)
- Rebecca Draper, daughter of Henry Draper
- Children / next generation
- Henry Willoughby of Minsterworth and Rappahannock
Documented depiction
Notes / sources
Cracroft's entry also reports a Richard Willoughby as a further child of Edward and Rebecca's generation, but the accessible evidence does not establish a securely traceable armigerous continuation for Richard.