English:  : Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, 1900, Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society Bristol, England, after pp.99-100[1].

Arms as seen on monuments in w:Great Chalfield Manor House and in All Saints' Church, Great Chalfield, Wiltshire, both built c.1465-80 by w:Thomas Tropenell, a member of the landed gentry who made a fortune as a clothier.

Text, pp.99-100: CHALFIELD HOUSE. Two: "(Gu.) a fess. engr. erm. between three griffins* heads erased (arg.)," Tropnell. Crest : Griffin's head affirontee couped (az.) beaked (or). Supporters : Two griffins' sejant. Crest : on helmet out of naval coronet (or) a dexter cubit arm erect (proper) charged with cross patty (gu.) holding in hand a trident in bend sinister, points downwards (of the first) f Burrard. (Az.) a lion pass, (arg.) between in chief two estoiles and in base a cross croslet fitchy (of the second)." This was all I read, the rest being hidden by ivy, but it reads : " On a chief (or) two lions ramp, combatant (gu.) supporting a dex. hand apaumecouped (of the last)," Bz/^rar^^. Motto: Persevere. Crest : A portcullis ; query, Somerset. Church: On stone screen: (i) Tropnell as before impaling "(Az.) five fusils in fess (or)," Percy. Sir Walter Tropnell married Catherine, d. of Sir William Percy of Great Chalfield. (2) Tropnell impaling " (Per pale az. & gu.) three lions ramp. 2 & I erm,." Rous. Roger Tropnell married Christian, d. of Sir John Rous. (3) Tropnell impaling " Arg. a chev. between three martens' heads (may be foxes') erased sa.," Ludlow. Thomas Tropnell, oh. 1490, married Margaret, d. of William Ludlow. (4) Tropnell impaling " Azure three roaches in pale within bordure arg.," Roche. The bordure goes round the impaling, which is bad, as Mr. Gill pointed out. Henry Tropnell married Edith, d. of Walter Roche

• I: Percy (ancient) (now Duke of Northumberland)
• II: Gules, a fess engrailed ermine between three griffin's heads erased argent (Tropnell). See these arms in Great Chalfield Manor House and sculpted on the chancel screen and on w:Thomas Tropenell's elaborate chest tomb in St. Bartholomew's Church, Corsham, Wiltshire[2].
• III: Per pale azure and gules, three lions rampant ermine (Rous/Rouse (of Imber, Wilts ?)); Roger Tropnell (an ancestor?) married Christiana Rous, a daughter of Sir John Rous. Text from HoP biog [3] of ROUS, John III (d.c.1454), of Baynton in Edington, Wilts, MP for Wiltshire in 1420, yr. s. of John Rous of Imber, Wilts. by Iseult Fitzwaryn, da. and coh. of Sir Philip Fitzwaryn, MP, of Great Chalfield, Wilts. "John Rous himself had been party to lawless behaviour in the county. He had helped his (elder brother William Rous) to retain possession of the manor of Great Charfield in 1431, when the Beverleys came armed to support their title, only to lose control of it to another claimant, Thomas Tropenell, later. William was accused in Tropenell’s cartulary of lechery and adultery".
• IV: Roche, later Viscount Fermoy: Gules, three roaches naiant in pale argent (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.863). Thomas Tropenell was the son of Henry Tropenell and his wife, Edith Roche, the daughter of Walter Roche.
• V Argent, a chevron between three fox's heads erased sable (Ludlow (of Hill Deverill, Wiltshire), later w:Earl Ludlow) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.628 "Earl Ludlow"). Thomas Tropenell married secondly in 1453 (no issue by first wife) Margaret Ludlow, widow of .... Erley, MP for Ludgershall, and a daughter of William Ludlow, MP, of Hill Deverill, Wiltshire. (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.628 "Ludlow of Hill Deverill, Wiltshire", but erroneously with "bear's heads") Tropenell married Margaret Ludlow in 1456 when he was 50 and she was the first chatelaine of his new Great Chalfield Manor when it was built.[4]
• VI: Pershay, not given in Papworth, John Woody, Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, Vol.I, London, 1874, p.564 for this shield

Identifier: transactionsofbr23bris_0 (find matches)
Title: Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. cn
Subjects: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Publisher: Bristol, Eng. : The Society
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ess az. within a tressure flory gu.,Charteris. This is a variation from the older coats;generally Charteris has the royal double tressure and is theI and 4, and the 2 and 3 have the Wemyss with the lion sa. Quarterly, i and 4, Arg. human heart, gu. crownedppr. on a chief az. three mullets or (generally of the first),Douglas. 2 and 3, Az. a bend between four crosses crosletfitchy I and 3, Or; query, generally six crosses crosletfitchy, i.e.^ 3 and 3, Mdvv, and the whole within a royaldouble tressure for Marquis of Queensberry. , S. face of House in stone : Tracy as before, impaling**Arg. a cross sa. fimbriated of the first, and bordered witheight semifleurs de lys between four mullets pierced allof the second, Athyns. John Tracy married Anne, daughterof Sir Robert Atkyns, 7th August, 1699. (According toKips plate the barn has been moved from the N. to whereoutbuildings were near the church, since his time, andis remarkable for the finials, suggesting leg and spur,but certainly not it.)
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HERALDRY, AS READ BY F. WERE DURINGTHE BRISTOL AND GLOUCESTERSHIREARCH^OLOGICAL SOCIETYS MEETING AT BATH. BATH ABBEY.(Sa.) a chev. between three eagles displ. (arg.) on a chief(or) a rose seeded between two lozenges (gu.), Bird. Collinson,Bath I. 58 & 63, gives the coat but no tinctures; these I havetaken from a grant by Brooke, York Herald 1592, as stated inS. <^D. iV. c^g., IV. 152. BRADFORD-ON-AVON. Entrance to the Hall: (i) ^Arg.) three bars (gu.),MoiiUon; (2) Per pale arg. & erm. three bars (gu.), Moultonof Plympton. Crest: Cubit arm erect habited (gu.) cufF(erm.)? holding in the hand a chaplet of roses all proper.Virtute non astutia. HINTON CHARTERHOUSE.Over door of Mansion: ... a chev. engr. erm.between three sinister gauntlets apaume . . . Robinsoh.Collinson, III. 370, says the tinctures are: Sa. & arg.,*impaling three arrows, 2 & i. Collinson says spears aridthe tinctures gu. & or.—query Amherst or Hales. Cresf:Out of crescent a dex. hand holding batt

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