England; Rutland, Leicestershire and Northamptonshire
Noel of Whitwell — Alexander Noel and the Rutland collateral household
- Family / house
- Noel of Dalby; Noel of Brooke; Noel of Whitwell; Palmer of Carlton; Barker of Hambleton
- Family / cadet branch
- Whitwell in Rutland; younger-son branch of Sir Andrew Noel of Dalby and Brooke
- Armiger / bearer
- Alexander Noel of Whitwell
- Entity type
- cadet_branch
- Social rank / class
- armigerous_gentry
- Heraldic authority
- Rutland visitation and county-history tradition
- Record basis
- recording
- Issued / first recorded
- 1602
- Until / superseded
- 1667
- Historical period
- Early Stuart period
- Grant / record reference
- Visitation of Rutland, 1681-82, Noel of Whitwell
- Blazon
- Or, fretty Gules, a canton Ermine.
- Plain-English description
- A gold shield with a red lattice and a white ermine-spotted canton.
- Tinctures
- Or; Gules; Ermine
- Charges / ordinaries
- fretty; canton; ermine spots
- Crest
- Not independently recovered for the Whitwell household.
- Motto
- TOUT BIEN OU RIEN
- Difference / variant
- Whitwell collateral branch descended from Alexander Noel, younger son of Sir Andrew Noel. The same Noel shield is documented; no separate mark of difference has been recovered.
- Source reference
- Noel of Campden, Dalby, Gainsborough, Luffenham and Whitwell genealogy
- Source
- Open source
Genealogical context
- Father
- Sir Andrew Noel of Dalby and Brooke
- Mother
- Mabel Harington
- Spouse(s)
- Mary Palmer, daughter of Thomas Palmer of Carlton, Northamptonshire
- Children / next generation
- Sir Andrew Noel of Whitwell; Mary Noel, wife of Sir Abel Barker of Hambleton; Alexander Noel; Julian Noel
Documented depiction
Notes / sources
The Whitwell line should be maintained as a separate reusable cadet branch rather than merged with the senior Campden and Gainsborough succession.