Image: ArmsOf SirJohnIVArundell Died1561 OfTrerice Cornwall

Description: Arms of Sir John IV Arundell (1495–1561) of Trerice, drawn from his monumental brass in Stratton Church, Cornwall. He was known as "Jack of Tilbury", and was an Esquire of the Body to King Henry VIII whom he served as Vice-Admiral of the West. He was knighted at the Battle of the Spurs in 1513. In 1523 he achieved notability by the capture of a notorious pirate. He served twice as Sheriff of Cornwall, in 1532 and in 1541. Arms of 6 quarters: (per Dunkin, Edwin Hadlow Wise, The Monumental Brasses of Cornwall with Descriptive, Genealogical and Heraldic Notes, 1882, Plate XXX, p. 34) 1:Sable, a wolf between six swallows argent (Arundell) 2:Sable, three chevronels argent (Lansladron) 3:Argent, a bend engrailed sable on a chief gules three mullets or pierced azure (apparently a difference of St John) 4:Argent, a chevron sable between three bucks gules (Rogers(?)) ("Rogers of Lank married the heiress of Haydon of Haydon in Jacobstow — extinct in the elder branch about 1620. Arms: Arg. a chevron between three stags trippant Sable (Lysons, Magna Britannia, Vol.3, Cornwall, Extinct Gentry Families)[1]) 5:Azure, a lion rampant guardant argent debruised by a fess gules (?) 6:Sable, a chevron argent between three bezants (Pellor).
Title: ArmsOf SirJohnIVArundell Died1561 OfTrerice Cornwall
Credit: Dunkin, Edwin Hadlow Wise, The Monumental Brasses of Cornwall with Descriptive, Genealogical and Heraldic Notes, 1882, Plate XXX, pp. 34-5
Author: Dunkin, Edwin Hadlow Wise
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