Heraldry in Gilling Castle (Palmes – Zouche)
- Palmes
- Gules three fleur-de-lys argent a chief vair, on the fess point a crescent or [?for difference]
- Phelip
- Quarterly gules and argent, in the first quarter an eagle displayed or
- Pollington
- Paly of six gules and argent a bend counter-charged [sometimes given as argent and gules]
- Powell
- Per pale azure and gules, three lions rampant argent
- Rempston
- Argent a chevron sable, in the dexter chief a cinquefoil pierced of the last
- Richmond
- Ermine a crescent or
- Richmond
- Gules two bars-gemels and a chief or
- Rocliff
- Argent a chevron between three lion’s heads erased gules
- Roos of Laxton
- Azure three water bougets or
- Sherburn of Stonyhurst
- Argent a lion rampant vert
- St. Philibert
- Bendy of six argent and azure
- St. Quintin
- Or a chevron gules, a chief vair
- Stapleton
- Argent a lion rampant sable [sometimes with a mullet on the lion, or a crescent on its shoulder, for difference]
- Sutton
- Or a lion rampant azure debruised by a bend compony argent and gules
- Thwaites
- Argent on a fess sable three bezants between three fleur-de-lys gules
- Thweng
- Argent a fess gules between three popinjays vert [according to Burke’s Armory they should be “...collared and membered gules”]
- Umfraville
- Argent a bend engrailed between two crosses moline gules
- Umfraville
- Gules a cinquefoil between eight crosses flory or, over all a bend engrailed argent
- Vaughan
- Sable a chevron between three boy’s heads couped argent, round the neck of each a snake entwined proper
- Vavasour
- Or a fess dancetty sable
- Vesci
- Or a cross sable [Usually given as a cross flory or patonce]
- Warren
- Checky or and azure
- Warren
- Checky or and gules a chief ermine
- Wormeley
- Gules on a chief indented argent three lions rampant azure [There is no record of any Fairfax-Wormeley marriage]
- Zouche
- Gules nine bezants or [sometimes 10 bezants, 4, 3, 2 and 1]
© Gill Smith 1996, 1997, 2000
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