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]
- Ferrers
- Vairy or and gules
- Fitzalan of Bedale
- Barry of eight or and gules
- Fitzhugh
- Azure three chevrons braced or, a chief of the last [elsewhere sometimes azure fretty and a chief or]
- 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]
- 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]
- Gascoigne=Gascoyne
- Argent on a pale sable a luce’s head erect and couped or
- Gerard
- Azure a lion rampant argent crowned or
- Goch
- Per pale azure and sable, three fleur-de-lys or
- 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...]
- Grey of Rotherfield
- Barry of six argent and azure a bend gules
- Hamelton
- Gules an eagle displayed argent debruised by a bendlet azure
- Holland
- Azure semy of fleurs-de-lys a lion rampant gardant argent
- 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.)
- Lancaster
- Argent two bars gules, on a canton of the last a lion passant or
- Lascell(e)s
- Argent three chaplets gules
- Loudham
- Argent on a bend azure five cross crosslets or [sometimes given as 3 cross crosslets]
- Lovel
- Barry nebuly of six or and gules
- Malbis
- Argent a chevron between three hind’s heads erased gules
- Markenfield
- Argent on a bend sable three bezants
- Mauley
- Or a bend sable
- Metham
- Quarterly azure and argent, in the first quarter a fleur-de-lys or
- Mowbray
- Gules a lion rampant argent, on the fess point a mullet sable pierced argent [presumably for difference]
- 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]
- Oyri
- Barry of six or and azure (adopted by Constable)
© Gill Smith 1996, 1997
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