Heraldry in Gilling Castle (Fairfax – Oyri)

Fairfax
Argent over three bars-gemels gules a lion rampant sable [in one shield the lion is shown debruised by the bars-gemels]

Fairfax
Ferrers
Vairy or and gules

Ferrers
Fitzalan of Bedale
Barry of eight or and gules

Fitzalan
Fitzhugh
Azure three chevrons braced or, a chief of the last [elsewhere sometimes azure fretty and a chief or]

Fitzhugh Fitzhugh, fretty variant
Folyfate=Follyfoot
Argent a fess sable between two lions passant gardant sable [note: this is sometimes shown with the lions regardant, or just passant; sometimes it is blazoned with three lions]

Follyfoot
Forth
Gules two bends vairy argent and gules, on a canton or a demi-lion passant sable langued gules [usually blazoned as a demi-greyhound, but here drawn more like a lion]

Forth
Gascoigne=Gascoyne
Argent on a pale sable a luce’s head erect and couped or

Gascoyne
Gerard
Azure a lion rampant argent crowned or

Gerard
Goch
Per pale azure and sable, three fleur-de-lys or

Goch
Goddard
Ermine a cross moline sable [the cross is sometimes blazoned pattee. Note this is mis-painted with both the spots of the ermine and the cross gules, which gives a very curious effect...]

Goddard
Grey of Rotherfield
Barry of six argent and azure a bend gules

Grey of Rotherfield
Hamelton
Gules an eagle displayed argent debruised by a bendlet azure

Hamelton
Holland
Azure semy of fleurs-de-lys a lion rampant gardant argent

Holland
Howard
Gules a bend between 6 cross crosslets fitchy argent, the bend charged with the Flodden augmentation (an escutcheon or charged with a demi-lion rampant pierced through the mouth by an arrow within a double tressure flory counterflory gules — this shield, clearly derived from the Scottish Royal Arms, was granted to the then Lord Howard who was in command at the Battle of Flodden Field when the Scots were well beaten, and the King of Scots was killed.)

Howard
Lancaster
Argent two bars gules, on a canton of the last a lion passant or

Lancaster
Lascell(e)s
Argent three chaplets gules

Lascell(e)s
Loudham
Argent on a bend azure five cross crosslets or [sometimes given as 3 cross crosslets]

Loudham
Lovel
Barry nebuly of six or and gules

Lovel
Malbis
Argent a chevron between three hind’s heads erased gules

Malbis
Markenfield
Argent on a bend sable three bezants

Markenfield
Mauley
Or a bend sable

Mauley
Metham
Quarterly azure and argent, in the first quarter a fleur-de-lys or

Metham
Mowbray
Gules a lion rampant argent, on the fess point a mullet sable pierced argent [presumably for difference]

Mowbray
Mowbray
Gules a lion rampant or within a bordure compony or and gules [Mowbray is usually a lion argent, as above]
Nevill(e)
Gules a saltire argent, on the fess point a mullet sable for difference (on another, an escallop) [Neville of Thornton]

Neville of Thornton
Oyri
Barry of six or and azure (adopted by Constable)

Oyri

© Gill Smith 1996, 1997



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