Heraldry in Gilling Castle (Aldbrough – Ewry)

Aldbrough

Gules a lion rampant argent charged with a fleur-de-lys azure

Aton

Barry of six or and azure, on a canton gules a cross flory argent (came in with Eure). This is sometimes given as Barry of six or and azure, on a canton gules a cross flory or. [Note this is linked to Atton – barry of six azure and or, on a canton gules a cross patonce or, and cf Etton]

Ayrum

see Ergham

Bailey

Vert an eagle displayed argent, armed or

Bardolf

Azure three cinquefoils or

Beaumont

Azure semy of fleur-de-lys a lion rampant or

Beaumont, Earl of Leicester

Gules a cinquefoil argent (or ermine) [usually blazoned ermine]

Beckering

Checky argent and gules, a bend sable

Bellasys

Argent a chevron gules between three fleur-de-lys azure [over the fireplace; it has been wrongly painted argent a chevron between three fleur-de-lys sable]

Bellasys

Argent a pale engrailed endorsed sable [? — this is very unlike the normal Bellasys shields; according to Papworth’s Ordinary the closest approximation is Argent a pale sable=Erskine]

Bellew

Sable fretty or [note: over the hallway fireplace this is wrongly drawn as sable a fret or]

Beneley

Sable a fess between three garbs argent

Botetourt

Or a saltire engrailed sable

Brittany

Checky or and azure within a bordure of the first, a canton ermine [usually shown with a bordure gules, which it is in the Fairfax window; this rendering is in the Stapleton window]

“Brokenspeare”

Argent on a cross gules five mullets or

Brotherton

Gules three lions passant gardant in pale or, in chief a label of three points argent [this is obviously England differenced, for Thomas of Brotherton, second son of Edward I]

Brus

Argent a lion rampant azure [Bruce of Skelton]

Brus

Or a saltire and a chief gules

Burnell

Argent a lion rampant sable crowned or within a bordure azure

Carthorpe

Or a bend azure [note wrongly shown as or a bend sable over the fireplace — this would be Mauley]

Chobbs

see Dorre

Collingridge

Argent three fleur-de-lys azure

Comyn, Earl of Buchan

Azure three garbs or

Constable

Or a fess compony argent and azure, in chief a lion passant gules [later used the adopted Oyri arms. Burke’s Armory suggests the fess is argent and sable]. Interestingly the arms are actually shown with the fess counter-compony, i.e. with a double row of white-and-blue chequers.

Constable

Barry of 6 or and azure (adopted from Oyri) [Frequently quartered with Lascelles, Umfraville, Eure, Aton, Vescy, Nevill, Ward and Beneley]

Cromwell

Argent a bend azure, a chief gules

Curwen

Quarterly 1 and 4 argent fretty gules, a chief azure, 2 and 3 sable a lion rampant argent charged with three lozenges gules [the lozenges are practically invisible, and arms so blazoned do not appear in Papworth]

de Quincy, Earl of Winchester

Gules seven mascles joined 3, 3 and 1 or

Deincourt

Argent a fess dancetty between ten billets sable [the number of billets varies between shields. Burke’s armorial gives Ermine a fess dancetty sable — could the ‘billets’ be ermine points?]

Deincourt

Azure a fess dancetty between ten billets or

Dormer

Azure ten billets or, on a chief of the second a demi-lion rampant issuing sable

Dorre alias Chobbs

Gules on a chevron argent three martlets sable, on a chief dancetty of the second three escallops of the first [according to Burke’s General Armory the birds should be shovellers]

Ergham=Ayrum

Argent a chevron between three martlets sable

Erpingham

Or an inescutcheon in an orle of martlets argent [this sounds very improbable — it is elsewhere blazoned with a sable, vert or gules field]

Etton

Barry of eight argent and gules, on a canton sable a cross patonce or [note the number of bars varies; usually 8, sometimes 6 or 10]

Eure=Ewry

Quarterly or and gules, on a bend sable three escallops argent

Shields from Fairfax to Oyri
Shields from Palmes to Zouche