DescriptionArms WilliamBrooke 10thBaronCobham (1527-1597) CobhamChurch Kent.xcf |
English: Arms quarterly of 15 of William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham (1527-1597), on the monument to his father George Brooke, 9th Baron Cobham (c.1497-1558), in Cobham Church, Kent. For heraldry see: D'Elboux, R.H., The Brooke Tomb, Cobham, published in Archaeologia Cantiana, Vol.62, 1949, pp.48-56, esp. pp.50-1 [1]
- 1: Gules, on a chevron argent a lion rampant sable crowned or (Brooke)
- 2: Argent, on a chevron or three lions rampant sable (Cobham)
- 3: Azure, a fess between three leopard's faces argent on the fess an annulet sable (De la Pole of Chrishall, Essex & Castle Ashby)
- 4: Gules, a fess (argent) between nine cross-crosslets or (Peverel (of Langton (w:Thorpe Langton) in Leicestershire; Brington & Castle Ashby in Northamptonshire) & for fess argent see Burke's General Armory, 1884[2])
- 5: Argent, seven mascles gules (Braybrooke)
- 6: Or fretty sable, on a chief of the second three plates (St Amand)
- 7: Argent, a chevron between three eagle's claws erased sable (Bray (modern), wife of George Brooke, 9th Baron Cobham)
- 8: Gules, three bends vair (Bray (ancient))
- 9: Or, on a bend gules three goats argent (Hallighwell, a Bray heiress (Halwell of Halwell in the parish of Harberton, Devon (Risdon, Tristram (d.1640), Survey of Devon, 1811 edition, London, 1811, with 1810 Additions, p.166))
- 10: Sable, a chevron between three bull's heads cabossed argent (Norbury, a Bray heiress (Norbury of Stoke in Surrey (Risdon, Tristram (d.1640), Survey of Devon, 1811 edition, London, 1811, with 1810 Additions, p.166))
- 11: Gules, a fess chequy (compony-counter-compony) argent and sable between six crosslets formée fitchée argent (Boteler, a Bray heiress (Boteler of Wem, Shropshire (Baron Boteler, 1308)))
- 12: Or, two bends gules (Sudeley, a Boteler heiress). William le Boteler, 2nd Baron Boteler (1298-1361), of Wem, married Margaret FitzAlan, daughter of Robert FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel. He had two sons both named William:
- William le Boteler I, 3rd Baron Boteler (1295 - 1369) of Wemme, eldest son and heir, married a certain Elizabeth;
- William le Boteler II (d. post 1380), second son, also named William (according to GEC Complete Peerage, Vol.12, Part 1, p.418, note (c)), who married Joan de Sudeley, elder sister and heires of her brother John de Sudeley, 3rd Baron Sudeley (1339-1367). His son was Thomas Boteler, 4th Baron Sudeley (1355-1398), whose descendants quartered the arms of Sudeley.
- 13: Bendy of ten or and azure (Montfort) (Montfort, lord of the manor of "Beldesert" (w:Beaudesert, Warwickshire), a Sudeley heiress. Joan de Sudeley's paternal grandmother was Margaret de Montford, heiress (in her issue) of Beaudesert Castle, Warwickshire, being one of the two sisters and eventual co-heiresses of Peter de Montford, 3rd Baron Montford (d.1370)
- 14: Sable, a cross or between four butterflies argent (Croyser)
- 15: Azure, a chevron or (D'Abernon)
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