DescriptionBampfieldQuarterings SirAmyasBampfield NorthMoltonChurch Devon.JPG |
English: Heraldic escutcheon above effigy and monument to Sir Amyas Bampfield (d.1626), All Saints Church, North Molton, Devon, England. Thirty quarterings. Similar 30 quarterings visible on funeral hatchment in Poltimore Church
[1] to Sir Coplestone Bampfylde, 2nd Baronet (d.1691). For identification of arms depicted see: Summers, Peter & Titterton, John, (eds.), Hatchments in Britain, Vol.7: Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Somerset; Phillimore Press, Chichester, Sussex, 1988, pp.29-30, Poltimore. Quarterings, per Summers and Titterton Poltimore Church blazons amended for errors and from observation of North Molton quarterings (Pauncefoot, Galloway and Pole arms apparently not shown at North Molton:
- 1: Or, on a bend gules three mullets argent (Bampfield)
- 2: Or, a maunch gules (Hastings)
- 3: Argent, a lion rampant sable (Huxham)
- 4: Argent, on a fess sable three cross crosslets or a bordure azure charged with twelve bezants (Faber)
- 5: Gules, on a chevron or three eagles displayed sable (Cobham, of Blackburgh Bolegh (Pole, pp.195,470))
- 6: Gules, a lion passant argent holding in the front paws a baton(?, from the position this would be an heiress of Cobham)
- 7: Argent, on a chevron sable between three torteaux three bezants (Bolegh of Blackburgh Bolley (Bolley (or Bolhay) of Blackborough), heiress of Cobham (Source:
Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon,
Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.470)
- 8: Argent, a bend gules between three lion's heads erased and ducally crowned sable (Pederton)
- 9: Argent fretty gules, over all a fess azure (Cann)
- 10: Argent, an annulet between three escallops gules (Tourney)
- 11: Argent, two chevrons gules a label of three points vert (St Maur)
- 12: Gules, a saltire vairy (Willington)
- 13: Gules, ten bezants, four, three, two and one (Zouch)
- 14: Gules, seven mascles or, three, three and one (de Quincy)
- 15: Gules, a cinquefoil pierced ermine (Beaumont or Bellomont (Earl of Leicester))
- 16: Gules, a pale or (Grandmeisnil/Grandmesnil)
- 17: Sable, a lion rampant between eight cinquefoils argent (Clifton)
- 18: Argent, a human heart within a double tressure flory counter-flory gules (David, Prince of Scotland)
- 19: Argent, a lion rampant gules a chief of the last (?)
- 20: Azure, three garbs argent (Peverell)
- 21: Azure, a wolf's head erased argent (Lupus, Earl of Chester)
- 22: Azure, six lions rampant or (Longespee)
- 23: Or semée of cross-crosslets fitchée, a lion rampant azure (Lovel of Castle Cary, Somerset). Nicholas St Maur, 2nd Baron St Maur (d.1361) married Muriel Lovel, daughter of James Lovel and grand-daughter and heiress of Richard Lovel, 1st Baron Lovel (d.1350/1) of Castle Cary. (G. E. Cokayne, The Complete Peerage, n.s., vol.XI, p.360)
- 24: Argent, a bend sable a label of three points gules (St Lo); Richard St Maur, 4th Baron St Maur (d.1401) married Ella de Saint Lo, elder daughter and co-heiress of Sir John de Saint Lo, of Newton St Loe in Somerset, MP,
[2] by his first wife Alice de Pavely, daughter and co-heiress of John de Pavely (G. E. Cokayne, The Complete Peerage, n.s., vol.XI, pp.360-1) of Brooke and Westbury in Wiltshire.
- 25: Azure, a cross flory argent (Paveley)
- 26: Argent, three lions rampant sable (Cheverell)
- 27: Gules, three escallops within a bordure engrailed argent (de Erleigh)/ (Erle?)
- 28: Azure, a chevron between three swans argent (Charlton)
- 29: Or, three piles azure (Brian)
- 30: Azure, an eagle with two heads displayed argent charged with a coronet or (Attributed arms of Leofric, Earl of Mercia)
|