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English: Renaissance aedicule with restored date-stone Anno 1574 with the heraldic achievement of William Bourchier, 3rd Earl of Bath (died 1623), above the gateway on the south facade of the Elizabethan gatehouse of Tawstock Court, Devon>

The ten quarterings shown on the escutcheon are as follows (with tinctures added):[1]

  • 1)Argent a cross engrailed gules between four water bougets sable (Bourchier)
  • 2) Gules, a fess argent between 15 billets or 5,4,3,2,1 (Louvaine) (across the first two quarters is a label of three points for difference)
  • 3)Quarterly per fess indented argent and gules (FitzWarin)
  • 4)Gules, a fret or (Audley)
  • 5)Argent, three aspen leaves erect gules (Cogan)
  • 6)Sable, a chevron barry nebuly argent and gules (Hankford)
  • 7)Argent, two bars wavy sable (Stapledon)
  • 8)Argent, two bars gules each charged with three bezants (Martin)
  • 9)Gules, four fusils in fess ermine (Dinham)
  • 10)Gules, three pairs of arches argent (Arches). The dexter supporter of a horse or possibly heraldic antelope, stands on a pedestal showing a peacock in its pride, the crest of George Manners, 11th Baron de Ros (circa 1470–1513),[2] whose daughter Eleanor Manners married, after 1524, as his 2nd wife, John Bourchier, 2nd Earl of Bath (1499–1560/61). The sinister supporter of a dove or falcon stands on a pedestal showing the Bourchier knot.[3] Above the shield is the Bourchier crest: A man's head in profile proper ducally crowned or with a pointed cap gules[4]

References

  1. The same quarterings are shown on the monument of Lady Frances Bourchier (died 1612) in the Bedford Chapel, Chenies, Buckinghamshire, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Bath http://www.middlesex-heraldry.org.uk/publications/monographs/chenies/cheniesBKM-monuments.htm
  2. Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p. 968
  3. The Manners peacock and Bourchier knot are also shown sculpted with the arms of Bourchier impaling Manners above the south-east door to Tawstock Church
  4. Visitation of Devon, 1895, p. 106
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Author (Lobsterthermidor (talk) 22:59, 19 March 2013 (UTC))

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