File:BrancestreArms.svg
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English: Arms of Brancestre/Brancaster of Calthorpe, Oxfordshire: Argent, on a bend gules three martlets or (MacNamara, F.N., Memorials of the Danvers Family, London, 1895, pp.84, 87-8, 123, 165[1]) Alternatively: Ermine, on a bend gules three martlets or winged vert. These were adopted as "modern arms" in place of his "ancient" paternal arms by John Danvers (died 1449) [1] of Calthorpe, near Banbury and of Prescote in the parish of Cropredy, both in Oxfordshire served four times as a Member of Parliament for Oxfordshire, in 1420, 1421, 1423 and 1435, whose mother was Agnes Brancestre, daughter and heiress of John Brancestre of Calthorpe. His descendants (including the Danvers baronets and the Earl of Danby) reverted to Danvers ancient (Gules, a chevron between three mullets of six points pierced or) |
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| Source | Own work, using martlet element from File:Martlet (English) svg element.svg by Lobsterthermidor (talk) 22:40, 9 January 2020 (UTC) |
| Author | Lobsterthermidor (talk) 22:40, 9 January 2020 (UTC) |
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| current | 22:40, 9 January 2020 | | 578 × 666 (18 KB) | Lobsterthermidor | {{Information |description ={{en|1=Arms of Brancestre/Brancaster of Calthorpe, Oxfordshire: ''Argent, on a bend gules three martlets or'' (MacNamara, F.N., Memorials of the Danvers Family, London, 1895, pp.84, 87-8, 123, 165[https://archive.org/details/memorialsofdanve00macn/page/n31]) Alternatively: ''Ermine, on a bend gules three martlets or winged vert''. These were adopted as "modern arms" in place of his "ancient" paternal arms by John Danvers (died 1449) [1] of Calthorpe, near Banbury... |
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