Image: BourchierImpalingManners TawstockChurchDevon

Description: Arms of Bourchier impaling Manners, as sculpted above SE door to Tawstock Church, DevonArms of Bourchier impaling Manners, sculpted above SE door to Tawstock Church, Devon. Representing arms of John Bourchier, 2nd Earl of Bath (1499-1560/61) with 10 quarterings (as also shown on the gatehouse of Tawstock Court and on the monument of Lady Frances Bourchier (d.1612) in the Bedford Chapel, Chenies, Buckinghamshire, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Bath [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))Impaling arms of his 2nd wife Eleanor Manners, daughter of George Manners, 11th Baron de Ros (c.1470-1513) with 4 grand quarterings: 1st & 4th: Or, two bars azure a chief quarterly azure and gules; in the 1st and 4th quarters two fleurs-de-lis and in the 2nd and 3rd a lion passant guardant all or (Manners) 2nd: quarterly of 4: 1: Gules, three water bougets argent (de Ros) 2: Azure, a Catherine wheel or (Belvoir) 3: Gules, three catherine wheels argent (Espec, for Walter Espec) 4: Argent, a fess between two bars gemeles gules (Badlesmere, for Giles de Badlesmere, 2nd Baron Badlesmere (1314–1338), as shown for Guncelin de Badlesmere, on the Herald's Roll of Arms[2] also on The Camden Roll, D189 & St George's Roll, E473) 3rd: quarterly, 1st: within a bordure the Arms of Plantagenet (Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent); 2nd & 3rd: Argent, a saltire engrailed gules (Sir John Tiptoft, 1st Baron Tiptoft, husband of Joyce Charleton and father of Philippa Tiptoft, wife of Thomas de Ros, 9th Baron Ros (d.1467)); 4th: Or, a lion rampant gules (Edward Charleton, 5th Baron Charleton of Powys (1370-1421), husband of Alianore Holland)
Title: BourchierImpalingManners TawstockChurchDevon
Credit: Self-photographed
Author: (Lobsterthermidor (talk) 15:22, 15 January 2014 (UTC))
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License: Public domain
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