English: Escutcheon above monument to Sir John Bluett (d.1634) in Holcombe Rogus Church, Devon, showing quarterings of heiresses joined to the Bluett family. The heraldic escutcheon on John Bluett's monument shows 8 quarterings as follows, which demonstrate his ancestry from heraldic heiresses:
1st: Or, a chevron azure between three eagles displayed of the last (Bluett)
2nd: Azure, three bendlets argent each close-cottised in base sable a bordure gules
3rd: Argent, a chevron sable a label of three points gules
4th: Argent, a chevron between in chief three crosses pattées in base a saltire sable
5th: Argent, three ravens/choughs sable/proper
6th: Or, on a chevron gules three martlets or (Chiselden of Holcombe Rogus)[1] The martlets are shown here argent.
7th: Azure, a chevron argent between three chess-rooks or (Rogus of Holcombe);[2] the chevron is shown here or.
8th: Azure, two bars between nine martlets argent, 3,3,2,1 (shown here as Azure, two bars between eight martlets or, 3,2,3) Tantifer (alias Tatifer, Tantifer, Taundifer, Fattifer[3]) of Anke, (modern "Aunk"[4]) Clyst Hydon,[5] an heiress of Chesilden
9th: Barry of six argent and gules, on a canton of the second a lion passant or (Lancaster of Milverton,[6] the family of Bluett's mother)
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↑Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.478
↑Colby, Frederick Thomas, (ed.), Visitation of the County of Somerset in the year 1623, London, 1876 (given as Argent, two bars gules..., here shown as barry of six[1]
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