England; Suffolk, Lincolnshire, Calais and the English peerage
William Willoughby, 1st Baron Willoughby of Parham — Tudor patent armiger
- Family / house
- Willoughby of Parham; Willoughby de Eresby; Heneage; Tailboys; Garneys
- Family / cadet branch
- Parham, Suffolk and Knaith, Lincolnshire
- Armiger / bearer
- William Willoughby, 1st Baron Willoughby of Parham
- Entity type
- individual
- Social rank / class
- peer
- Heraldic authority
- Crown under Edward VI; Complete Peerage; Tudor parliamentary and military records
- Record basis
- grant
- Issued / first recorded
- 20 February 1546/7
- Until / superseded
- 30 July 1570
- Historical period
- Tudor England
- Grant / record reference
- Letters patent creating Baron Willoughby of Parham on 20 February 1546/7, with remainder to heirs male of his body
- Blazon
- Or, fretty Azure.
- Plain-English description
- A gold shield bearing a blue interlaced lattice.
- Tinctures
- Or; Azure
- Charges / ordinaries
- A fret
- Crest
- A Saracen's head affrontée couped at the shoulders Proper, ducally crowned Or.
- Motto
- VERITÉ SANS PEUR.
- Exterior ornaments
- Later Parham peerage achievements show an ostrich Argent holding a horseshoe Or and a savage Proper wreathed with ivy as supporters. The arms themselves remained Or, fretty Azure.
- Difference / variant
- William's patent established a separate Parham barony for the younger Eresby branch. The shield was not redesigned but was used under a distinct territorial title and peerage creation.
- Source reference
- Complete Peerage, Willoughby of Parham, 1547 creation
- Linked historical person
- Sir William Willoughby, 1st Baron Willoughby of Parham
- Source
- Open source
Genealogical context
- Father
- Sir Christopher Willoughby of Parham
- Mother
- Elizabeth Tailboys
- Spouse(s)
- Elizabeth Heneage, daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Heneage of Hainton and Knaith; Margaret Garneys, widow of Walter Devereux, 1st Viscount Hereford
- Children / next generation
- Charles Willoughby, 2nd Baron Willoughby of Parham; Mary Willoughby, later wife of William Metham of Bullington
Documented depiction
Notes / sources
Some older sources give William's death as August 1574, but the modern peerage treatment and associated biographical evidence generally use 30 July 1570. The date should be retained with a source note if normalized across the registry.