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Armorial Registry

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General Armorial Registry

Armorial Registry

A digital registry of armorial bearings centred on landed and armigerous gentry, their cadet/offshoot branches and upward connections into knighthood, baronetcies, peerage and royal houses, while also retaining other documented heraldry. Links to manors, lordships and historical people are optional.

908 armorial records

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Alexander of Forkhill — collateral branch through Anne Jackson, heiress of Coleraine

Class: Armigerous Gentry

Branch: Alexander of Forkhill, descended through Anne Jackson, daughter and heiress of Richard Jackson of Coleraine

Armiger: Henry Alexander of Forkhill, D.L.

Issued / recorded: 27 September 1872

Blazon: Per pale Argent and Sable, a chevron between in chief an annulet and in base a crescent all counterchanged. Crest: An arm in armour embowed, the hand grasping a sword Proper, on the elbow an annulet Sable. Motto: PER MARE PER TERRAS.

Variant: Cadet

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Antiquarian Horological Society

Armiger: Antiquarian Horological Society

Issued / recorded: 26 September 2023

Blazon: Gules issuant in dexter base the arc of a Clock’s Gear Wheel Or the teeth engaging in sinister chief the teeth of a Pinion Argent.

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Balfour of Whittingehame — Lady Ruth Balfour and the rejoining marriage with Balbirnie

Class: Landed Gentry

Branch: Whittingehame female branch reconnecting with Balbirnie

Armiger: Lady Ruth Balfour and Brigadier Edward William Sturgis Balfour

Issued / recorded: 26 December 1914

Blazon: Balfour component: Argent, on a chevron engrailed Sable between three mullets Sable as many otters' heads erased Argent. The complete matrimonial achievement of Lady Ruth and Edward William Sturgis Balfour has not been located.

Variant: Marshalling

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Balfour of Whittingehame — James Maitland Balfour and the Salisbury-Cecil matrimonial bridge

Class: Landed Gentry

Branch: Whittingehame through the marriage of James Maitland Balfour and Lady Blanche Gascoyne-Cecil

Armiger: James Maitland Balfour of Whittingehame and Lady Blanche Mary Harriet Gascoyne-Cecil

Issued / recorded: 15 August 1843

Blazon: Balfour component: Argent, on a chevron engrailed Sable between three mullets Sable as many otters' heads erased Argent. The complete marital impalement with Cecil or Gascoyne-Cecil has not been securely located.

Variant: Marshalling

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Balfour of Whittingehame — Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl, maternal grandson of the 2nd Marquess of Salisbury

Class: Peer

Branch: Balfour of Whittingehame; descended through Lady Blanche Mary Harriet Gascoyne-Cecil

Armiger: Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour

Issued / recorded: 1848

Blazon: Argent, on a chevron engrailed between three mullets Sable as many otters' heads erased Argent. Crest: A palm tree Proper. Supporters: On either side an otter Proper collared Or. Motto: VIRTUS AD AETHERA TENDIT.

Variant: Same Design

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Balfour of Whittingehame — Lady Blanche Gascoyne-Cecil's marital and maternal transmission branch

Class: Landed Gentry

Branch: Balfour of Whittingehame; maternal descendant branch of the Salisbury marquessate

Armiger: James Maitland Balfour and Lady Blanche Mary Harriet Gascoyne-Cecil

Issued / recorded: 1843

Blazon: For James Maitland Balfour: Argent, on a chevron engrailed between three mullets Sable as many otters' heads erased Argent. The marital achievement is formed by Balfour impaling the Salisbury Cecil-Gascoyne-Cecil arms: Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Cecil, Barry of ten Argent and Azure, over all six escutcheons Sable, three, two and one, each charged with a lion rampant Argent, a crescent Gules for difference; 2nd and 3rd, Gascoyne, Argent, on a pale Sable a conger's head erased and erect Or, charged with an ermine spot.

Variant: Impalement

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Beresford-Hope–Gibbs of Aldenham — Bridget Beresford-Hope and the Salisbury-connected marriage into the Aldenham Gibbs family

Class: Armigerous Gentry

Branch: Beresford-Hope of Bedgebury Park and Beresford Hall; marriage branch into Gibbs of Aldenham

Armiger: Bridget Beresford-Hope, later Bridget Gibbs, Lady Aldenham

Issued / recorded: 1873-02-18

Blazon: No separate personal grant or complete contemporary marital achievement for Bridget Beresford-Hope and Alban George Henry Gibbs has been located. The documented paternal Beresford-Hope arms were Azure, a chevron Or between three bezants; the Aldenham Gibbs arms were Argent, three battle-axes erect within a bordure nebuly Sable.

Variant: Marshalling

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Beresford of Albuera and Beresford — William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, grant and estate-transmitting stepfather

Class: Peer

Branch: Beresford of Beresford and Albuera

Armiger: William Carr Beresford, 1st Viscount Beresford, G.C.B., G.C.H., P.C.

Issued / recorded: 1 July 1811

Blazon: Argent semée of cross-crosslets fitchée three fleurs-de-lis two and one Sable within a bordure wavy Pean. Crest: Issuant from a mural crown Or a dragon's head per fess wavy Azure and Gules, the lower part of the neck transfixed by a broken spear, in the mouth the remaining part of the spear point upwards Or. Motto: NIL NISI CRUCE.

Variant: Same Design

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Cecil Bisshopp, 12th Baron Zouche of Harringworth — first post-abeyance revival through the elder coheir

Class: Baronet

Branch: Bisshopp of Parham; Zouche coheir branch

Armiger: Cecil Bisshopp, 8th Baronet and 12th Baron Zouche of Harringworth

Issued / recorded: 1815

Blazon: Quarterly: 1st, Argent, on a bend cotised Gules three bezants; 2nd, Azure, three swans' heads erased Argent; 3rd, Per fess Or and Gules, a pale counterchanged, three Cornish choughs Proper; 4th, Gules, ten bezants, four, three, two and one, a canton Ermine.

Variant: Quartering

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Harriet Anne Curzon, 13th Baroness Zouche of Harringworth — Southwell-Bisshopp coheir succession

Class: Peer

Branch: Bisshopp-Curzon of Parham

Armiger: Harriet Anne Curzon, née Bisshopp, 13th Baroness Zouche of Harringworth

Issued / recorded: 1829

Blazon: Quarterly: 1st, Argent, on a bend cotised Gules three bezants; 2nd, Azure, three swans' heads erased Argent; 3rd, Per fess Or and Gules, a pale counterchanged, three Cornish choughs Proper; 4th, Gules, ten bezants, four, three, two and one, a canton Ermine.

Variant: Quartering

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Borough pedigree heading

Branch: Borough

Issued / recorded: 1584/5

Blazon: 1st and 4th, argent, on a saltire sable, five swans of the field; 2nd and 3rd, [argent], a fess engrailed between six fleurs-de-lis [sable].

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Boyle–Clifford–Cecil — Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington, and the heiress transmission from Elizabeth Clifford

Class: Peer

Branch: Boyle of Burlington formed through marriage to Elizabeth Clifford, granddaughter of Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury

Armiger: Richard Boyle, 1st Earl of Burlington and 2nd Earl of Cork, through his marriage to Lady Elizabeth Clifford

Issued / recorded: 1635

Blazon: Per bend embattled Argent and Gules, for Boyle; on an escutcheon of pretence Chequy Or and Azure, a fess Gules, for Clifford. The Clifford escutcheon of pretence represents Richard Boyle's wife Elizabeth Clifford, daughter and sole heiress of Henry Clifford, 5th Earl of Cumberland, and thereby carries the Salisbury Cecil connection through Elizabeth's mother Frances Cecil.

Variant: Marshalling

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Boynton

Class: Knightly/gentry

Branch: Sedbury

Armiger: Boynton

Blazon: 1st and 4th, or, on a fesse between 3 crescents gules a lion passant of the 1st; 2nd and 3rd, gules, a fesse between 3 birds argent, a crescent for difference

Variant: Quartering

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