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Freville quarterings

Legg inn av Gjest » 12 mai 2006 16:42:34

According to the text published in Vol 41 of the Surtees Society
Publications ("The Visitation of the Northern Counties 1530 &c", the
so-called Elizabeth Roll of Northern Heraldry contains two entries for
the Freville family.

Presumably these relate to the line of Richard Freville, a younger
brother of Robert Freville of Little Shelford, Cambs (d 1521), who
moved to Durham.

The first entry ("Freville") merely states the family's patrinominal
arms, viz, "gules, three crescents ermine" - although it does add their
crest, which I am not sure I have seen elsewhere ("on a wreath [perhap
just a reference to the torse] an old man's head proper issuant out of
a coronet or, vested gules, turned back ermine, on his head a cap").

The second, and more interesting entry, ("Fravell") gives six
quarterings:

1. (Freville)
2. Argent, a fess between three annulets gules
3. Or, a chevron between nine cross crosslets gules (Holbrook)
4. Sable, a fess between three wolves' heads erased or (?Wolferston?)
5. Or, three chevrons gules, each charged with three fleurs-de-lis
argent
6. Or, semee of fleurs-de-lis sable.

I conjecture that (4) could be Wolferston, based largely on its
potential canting nature, but also on the fact that (at least according
to the modern rules) the Holbrook quartering could not technically be
brought in to the Freville achievement without also bringing in the
arms of those two families through which it was acquired, i.e.
Wolferston and FitzRalph.

Can anyone add to the putative identification of these quarterings?

MA-R

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Re: Freville quarterings

Legg inn av Gjest » 18 mai 2006 21:34:36

mjcar@btinternet.com schrieb:

According to the text published in Vol 41 of the Surtees Society
Publications ("The Visitation of the Northern Counties 1530 &c", the
so-called Elizabeth Roll of Northern Heraldry contains two entries for
the Freville family.

Presumably these relate to the line of Richard Freville, a younger
brother of Robert Freville of Little Shelford, Cambs (d 1521), who
moved to Durham.

The first entry ("Freville") merely states the family's patrinominal
arms, viz, "gules, three crescents ermine" - although it does add their
crest, which I am not sure I have seen elsewhere ("on a wreath [perhap
just a reference to the torse] an old man's head proper issuant out of
a coronet or, vested gules, turned back ermine, on his head a cap").

The second, and more interesting entry, ("Fravell") gives six
quarterings:

1. (Freville)
2. Argent, a fess between three annulets gules
3. Or, a chevron between nine cross crosslets gules (Holbrook)
4. Sable, a fess between three wolves' heads erased or (?Wolferston?)

Indeed, according to Burke's General Armory (although the Staffordshire
branch, later Pipe-Wolferstan, used a fess wavy)

5. Or, three chevrons gules, each charged with three fleurs-de-lis
argent

This, according to Burke's, is "FitzRauf of Suffolk"

6. Or, semee of fleurs-de-lis sable.

I conjecture that (4) could be Wolferston, based largely on its
potential canting nature, but also on the fact that (at least according
to the modern rules) the Holbrook quartering could not technically be
brought in to the Freville achievement without also bringing in the
arms of those two families through which it was acquired, i.e.
Wolferston and FitzRalph.

Anne Wolferstone married William Freville; she became a coheiress to
her mother, Elizabeth nee FitzRalph, on the death without issue of her
brother Thomas; Elizabeth was herself a co-heiress to the Holbrook
family, hence these three quarterings having been inherited by the
Frevilles of Little Shelford.

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