English: Blazon of Huband Baronets (1661). Arms of Hubaud, Hubawde, Hybot, Hybbotts, etc, from about 1640 "Huband":
Sable, three leopard's faces jessant-de-lys argent, a difference of the arms of
Cantilupe, their feudal overlords at Ipsley. The
Huband Baronetcy, "of
Ipsley in the County of Warwick", was a title in the
Baronetage of England which was created on 2 February 1661 for John Huband, of
Ipsley Court, then in
Warwickshire. The Huband family (anciently Hubald, Hubaud, Hubawde, Hybot, Hybbotts, etc, from about 1640 "Huband") held the manor of Ipsley at the time of the
Domesday Book of 1086, when Hugh Hubald held it from
Osbern FitzRichard of
Richard's Castle in Herefordshire, and was one of his chief tenants also holding lands from him in Bedfordshire.
[1] By the early 13th century the
overlordship of Ipsley passed to the
Cantilupe family of
Aston Cantlow[2] in Warwickshire,
feudal barons of Eaton (Bray) in
Bedfordshire, and the Hubaud family, who remained their tenants at Ipsley, were granted a difference of the Cantilupe arms (modern) (
Gules, three leopard's faces jessant-de-lys reversed or), first adopted by Saint
Thomas de Cantilupe (c.1218-1282) (alias Cantelow, Cantlow, Cantelou, Canteloupe, etc., Latinised to de Cantilupo), Lord Chancellor of England and
Bishop of Hereford. Similarly the
jessant-de-lys Cantilupe arms were adopted by other of their tenants including John Woodforde (fl.1316) of
Brentingby in Leicestershire.
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