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| Lewis | |
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 Lewis Coat of Arms | |
| Current region | London, New York |
| Place of origin | Caerphilly, Glamorganshire, Wales |
| Seat | Oakly Park |
| Historic seat | St Fagans |
| Connected families | Barons Tredegar • Earl of Plymouth • House of Windsor Morgan Family • Fielding Lewis • Lewis of Warner Hall • Aberffraw • Plantagenet • Tudor • Courtenay • Grey • Holland • Percy • FitzAlan • Tudors of Penmynydd |
| Motto | ‘Patriœ fidus’ (Faithful to my country) and ‘Ofner na ofno angau’ (Let him be feared who fears not death) |
The Lewis family of Van, Glamorganshire is an ancient Welsh family dating back to the sixteenth century. The most documented progenitor of the Lewis family name is Sir Edward Lewis of the Van (c.1508) who was the sheriff of Glamorgan in 1548, 1555, 1559.
Sir Edward Lewis descended from the royal houses of Dinefwr and Gwynedd through his ancestor Ifor Bach[1]
Earls of Plymouth
[edit]The Plymouth estate through marriage of Elizabeth Lewis to Other Windsor, 3rd Earl of Plymouth On 7 May 1730 absorbed vast amounts of the Lewis estates through primogeniture after the death of Elizabeths father Thomas Lewis.[2]
Family seat
[edit]The original family seat was Y Van Castle. In the 1580s, permission was given to Thomas Lewis to use stone from nearby Caerphilly Castle to build a manor house. The resulting building was known as Van Castle, Castell y Fan, or simply 'The Van'. The building was seen as an innovation of its day but its construction led to the further dilapidation of the original castle in Caerphilly. Van Castle was abandoned in the mid-18th century when the Lewis family moved to St Fagans Castle.
Heraldry
[edit]The coat of arms of the Lewis family is a silver lion rampant argent.[3]
The family has two family mottos, the first ‘Patriœ fidus’ (Faithful to my country) and second ‘Ofner na ofno angau’.(Let him be feared who fears not death).
The second family motto is of note, originating from on old legend from the reign of Edgar King of England. King Edgar requested the Welsh princes to row him on his royal barge across the river dee where he had summoned the Princes. One of the Princes Gwaithwood the ancestor of Ivor refused responding with “Ofner na ofno augau “(Fear him who fears not death). The King was pleased with the response and held the Prince in high regard. The only other family to have born this motto is the Bruce family of Scotland.
Notable family members
[edit]- Wyndham Lewis (7 October 1780 – 14 March 1838) was a British politician and a close associate of Benjamin Disraeli, whom his widow married after his death[4]
- Thomas Lewis (c. 1679 – 22 November 1736) of Soberton, Hampshire, was a British Tory and then Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1708 and 1736.
- Thomas Lewis (by 1533 – 2 November 1594), of The Van, Glamorganshire, was a Welsh politician.
- Ivor Edward Other Windsor-Clive, 4th Earl of Plymouth (born 19 November 1951)
References
[edit]Footnotes
[edit]- ^ SIMMONS LEWIS, EDWARD (1928). "The Journal Of American History, November 3rd 1928" (PDF). The Journal of American History. XX33 (3): 10 – via JSTOR.
- ^ MORRIS, A (1907). Glamorgan Being an outline of its GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES (1st ed.). John E. Southall, dock street. p. 395.
- ^ Burke's General Armory (PDF). London: Harrison, London. 1884. p. 605.
- ^ "LEWIS, Wyndham (1780-1838), of Greenmeadow, Tongwynlais, Glam. and Grosvenor Gate, Mdx. | History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved 2024-06-16.
Sources
[edit]- Dictionary of Landed Gentry Of Great Britain & Ireland By John Burke
- Glamorgan, being an outline of its GEOGRAPHY, HISTORY, AND ANTIQUITIES by A. MORRIS
- The land of Morgan: being a contribution towards the history of the lordship of Glamorgan
- The general armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales; comprising a registry of armorial bearings from the earliest to the present time 1884
- The house of Morgan : an American banking dynasty and the rise of modern finance
- Lewis of Warner Hall: The History of a Family, Including the Genealogy of Descendants in Both the Male and Female Lines, Biographical Sketches of Its ... Descent from Other Early Virginia Families