DescriptionCoplestonArms TamertonFoliotChurch Devon.PNG |
English: Heraldic escutcheon with 19 quarterings, being arms of John Coplestone (d.1608), lord of the manors of Warleigh & Tamerton Foliot, Devon. Detail from his monument in St Mary's Church, Tamerton Foliot. Quarterings:
- 1: Argent, a chevron engrailed gules between three lion's faces azure (Copleston)
- 2: Gules, a bend vair (de Raleigh?)
- 3: Ermine, a fess between three cinquefoils gules (Graas of Teign Grace, per Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791, p.485) John Copleston (d.1433) married the heiress Catherine Graas (Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitation of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895, p.224)
- 4: Gules, two bends wavy or (Brewer, for William Brewer (d.1226), Sheriff of Devon (per Gerard of Trent, A Particular Description of the County of Somerset, Bates, E.H., (ed.), London, 1900, p.43), who held Teign Brewer, inherited by his co-heiress Eva Brewer, wife of Thomas le Grace, to whose family came the manor of Teign Brewer, thenceforth called Teign Grace. (Risdon, Tristram (d.1640), Survey of Devon, 1811 edition, London, 1811, with 1810 Additions, p.135)
- 5: (eroded) (from order of placement a Brewer heiress)
- 6: ... a chevron...
(from order of placement a Brewer heiress)
- 7: ..a fret, a canton ...
(from order of placement a Brewer heiress)
- 8: Sable, six mullets argent pierced gules (Bonville, per Rogers, William Henry Hamilton, The Antient Sepulchral Effigies and Monumental and Memorial Sculpture of Devon, Exeter, 1877, p.40) Philip Copleston, Sheriff of Devon in 1472, married Anne Bonville, daughter and heiress of John Bonville (1417-1494) of Shute
- 9: Argent, a gurges (whirlpool) azure (Gorges, from whom Bonville inherited Tamerton Foliot)
- 10: ... a bend argent
- 11: ... a chief gules
- 12: Or, .... a bordure engrailed argent
- 13: ... two bars in chief three roundels (Grey?)
- 14: .... a fret
- 15: Vair (Beauchamp of Ryme/Hatch (?))
- 16:
- 17: A chevron between three buckles
- 18: Vair, a chief chequy a bordure of roundels (Fleming?)
- 19: Party per pall a bordure argent
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