Possible Arms of the 25 Sureties for the Magna Carta of 1215 |
Last Name |
Forename |
(Birth-Death) |
Proposed Arms
| Blazon from ‘Magna Charta Dames & Barons Soc’ |
Blazon |
Source |
Comments |
Tinctured |
Albini |
William (III) d' |
>1146-1232 |
Or 2 chevs border Gules. |
MP p. 23 (tinc); TBDA, Vol 2, p. 511 (untinc) |
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Gules a lion rampant Or. |
Bigod |
Hugh |
-<1224 |
Or 1 plain cross Gules. |
TBDA, Vol 3, p. 103 |
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Or a cross Gules with a label of three points Azure. |
Bigod |
Roger |
-<1221 |
Or 1 plain cross Gules. |
TBDA, Vol 3, p. 103 |
These are also the arms of Ulster. |
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Or a cross gules. |
Bohun |
Henry de |
1176-1220 |
Azure bend Argent cotised & between 6 lions Or. |
TBDA, Vol 2, pp. 89-90 |
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Azure, a bend argent cotised between six lioncels or. |
Clare |
Gilbert de |
ca1180-1230 |
Or 3 chevrons Gules. |
TBDA, Vol 2, p. 519 |
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Or three chevrons Gules a label of three points. |
Clare |
Richard de |
ca1162-<1217 |
Or 3 chevrons Gules. |
TBDA, Vol 2, p. 519 |
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Or three chevrons Gules. |
FitzRobert |
John |
-1241 |
Qtly Or and Gules a bend Sable. |
MP p. 66, (tinc); TBDA, Vol I, p. 335 (untinc) |
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Or, two chevrons Gules. (The chevron arms belong to a FitzRobert of Northants, not this one of Warkworth.) |
FitzWalter |
Robert (II) |
-1235 |
Or a fess between two chevrons Gules. |
TBDA, Vol 3, pp. 384-5 |
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Or, a fess between two chevrons Gules. |
Forz |
William de |
-1241 |
Gules cross patonce Vair. |
TBDA, Vol 3, p. 150 |
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Gules a cross patonce Vair. |
Hardell |
William |
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Vert a fesse flory counterflory Or. |
Burke: General Armory, pub 1884, p. 454. |
No contemporary arms found. |
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Vert a fesse flory counterflory Or. |
Huntingfield |
William de |
-1220 |
Or on a fess Gules 3 roundels Argent. |
TBDA, Vol 3, p. 473 |
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Or on a fess Gules three plates. |
Lacy |
John de |
ca1192-1240 |
Qtly Or and Gules, a bend Sable, a label of [four] points. |
MP p. 26 (tinc); TBDA, vol I, p. 363 (untinc) |
His seal clearly has a 4 pt label. |
Qtly Or and Gules a bend Sable and a label of four points Argent. |
Or a lion rampant Azure. |
Lanvalay |
William de |
-1217 |
Gules a lion passant Or. |
Anon, poss J H Round “History of Colchester Castle”, pub Benham & Co, 1882, p. 43, note (7). |
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Gules a lion statant with dexter paw raised Or. |
Malet |
William (II) |
c.1180-c.1215 |
Ermine a lion passant. |
"Notices of an English Branch of the Malet Family" by Arthur Malet, published 1885, pp 77-78. |
Untinct as from seal. |
Ermine a lion passant Or. |
Gules a lion rampant Or surmounted by a bend Ermine. |
Mandeville |
Geoffrey de |
-1216 |
Quarterly Or and Gules an escarbuncle Sable. |
TBDA, Vol 3, p. 263; MP, p. 61. |
Paris omits the escarbuncle. |
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Quarterly Or and Gules an escarbuncle counterchanged. |
Marshal |
William |
ca1190-1231 |
Per pale Or and Vert, 1 lion rampant Gules. |
MP, p. 22; TBDA, Vol 1, pp. 143-4 (untinc lion) |
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Per pale Or and Vert a lion rampant Gules. |
Montbegon |
Roger de |
-ca1226 |
2 palets, 6 plates in orle. |
Cheshire 1580 visitation, pub Harleian 1882, seal 12 on p. 6 and text on p. 182. Refers to Harl 1424, fo. 111. |
Untinct as from seal. |
Gules 2 palets 6 plates in orle Argent. |
Paly of 6, Argent and Gules, in bordure 14 roundels Counterchanged. |
Montfichet |
Richard de |
ca1193-ca1268 |
Or, 3 chevs Gules, a label azure |
MP pp. 40, 56, 130; TBDA, Vol 2, p. 524 (untinc) |
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Or, three chevrons Gules a label of 7 points Azure. |
Gules three chevrons Or. |
Mowbray |
William de |
-<1224 |
Gules lion Argent |
TBDA, Vol I, p. 130 and cf untinc p. 117. |
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Gules a lion rampant argent. |
Percy |
Richard de |
ca1170-ca1244 |
Azure five fusile Argent. |
MP p. 46; TBDA, Vol 3, p. 323 |
He adopted his mother's name and arms. Father's arms were the lion. |
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Or a lion rampant Purpure (or might it be Azure?). |
Quency |
Saher (IV) de |
1155-1219 |
A fess & label of 7, or 8, points |
TBDA, Vol 3, p. 329 |
Untinct as from seal. |
Argent a fess with a label of 7 points Gules. |
Or a fesse Gules with a label of 8 points Azure (or Purpure). |
Ros |
Robert de |
ca1170-<1226 |
Gules 3 bougets Argent. |
TBDA, Vol 2, pp. 310-311; MP p. 47 |
Other tinctures also used. |
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Gules three water bougets Argent. |
Say |
Geoffrey (II) de |
ca1180-<1230 |
Qtly Or and Gu. |
J H Round “Geoffrey de Mandeville”, pp. 392-96. |
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Quarterly or and Gules. |
Vere |
Robert de |
>1164-<1221 |
Qtly Gu and Or, a mullet Arg in qtr 1. |
J H Round “Geoffrey de Mandeville”, pp. 392-96; MP p. 39. |
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Quarterly Gules and Or, in Quarter 1 a mullet Argent. |
Vescy |
Eustace de |
ca1170-1216 |
Gules I cross patonce Argent. |
MP p. 17; TBDA, Vol 3, p. 146 |
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Gules a cross Argent. |