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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



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LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 19, 1856. 

 NOTES ON THE FLEUR-DE-LIS. 



{Concluded from 2"^ S. i. 410.) 



In "N. & Q," P' S. ix. 35. 84 113. 225., are 

 several notes from your correspondents on the 

 suV)ject of the F.-d.-L. ; and names of families, not 

 included in the above lists, are cited in connection 

 with this charge. Such are the five bishops named 

 by Mackenzie Walcott. According to Heylin, 

 Trilleck, Bishop of Hereford (1275), founder of 

 Trilleck Inn, now called New Inn Hall, Oxford, 

 is alone entitled to this distinction, as bearing the 

 arms of his see, derived from S. Thomas de Can- 

 telupe, the 44th bishop. Chancellor of England 

 and Oxford, son of William Lord Cantiloupe, for 

 whom see the third crusade under Richard I. 

 Other names are, France of Bostock Hall, Chesh- 

 ire, Saunders, Warwyke, Presterfield, Kempton, 

 Velland, Rothfeld, and references are made to the 

 heraldic dictionaries of Berry, Burke, Edmonson, 

 Robson, Glover's Ordinary, &c. I am well aware 

 that there may be many families so distinguished 

 which are not included in the " formidable array " 

 which my lists supply from the four sources al- 

 ready described ; but as I have already trespassed 

 too long on your pages, and on the patience of 

 your readers, I shall for the present confine my- 

 self to a few remarks suggested by the preceding 

 Notes ; and leave to such of your heraldic cor- 

 respondents as may have a knowledge I do not 

 possess, or a facility of consulting many important 

 authorities not within my reach, the task of sup- 

 plying all deficiencies. Of such additional sources 

 of information it may be sufficient to name here 

 the valuable Armorial General de la France, par 

 d'Hozier, Paris, 1736, in ten folio volumes ; and, to 

 save time, many French and English works on this 

 subject, collected in the fifth volume of Brunet's 

 Manuel du Lib)-aire, p. 625., edit. 1844, under 

 Div. VI., Hist, de la Chevalerie et de la Noblesse, 

 avec VHistoire Heraldique et Genealogique. 



It may be remarked that an undoubted French 

 origin in families gives no title to the distinction 

 of the F.-d.-L. This appears from numerous in- 

 stances in which the charge is not borne. Such, 

 among others, are the names, Butler, descended 

 from the ancient Counts of Brien in Normandy ; 

 St. Leger, of French extraction, coming in with 

 the Conqueror ; St. John (Jean), also Norman ; 

 De Brodrick, the same, under William II. ; Eg- 

 mont, descended from the Dues de Bretagne ; 

 Moore, of French extraction, soon after the Con- 

 quest ; Fortescue, from the Norman Sir Richard 

 le Forte ; Hervey, coming from France with Wil- 

 liam the Conqueror, descended from the younger 

 son of Henri, Duke of Orleans ; Harcourt, also 



from Normandy, besides many others. It may be 

 said that most of these were of Norman descent, 

 and that the arms of Normandy were G, 2 L. P. 

 G. or. But it cannot be strictly ascertained 

 whether all these families were exclusively Norman ; 

 and among the Norman Crusaders (1096 — 1269) 

 are many bearing the F.-d.-L. Such is also the 

 case with the names Beliasyse, St. Maur, Disney, 

 &c. In the above category are also many names 

 which, though strictly French, have correspondent 

 names in English, and are now absorbed in our 

 genealogical catalogues as part and parcel of 

 our native patronymics, I may hereafter give a 

 curious list of these correspondences, which have 

 been noted, for amusement, in the course of a pro- 

 gress through ancient French history. 



In perusing the above lists, it is obvious that, 

 saving the unquestionable claim from royal de- 

 scent or alliance, very few indications appear of 

 the grounds on which this royal charge is assumed 

 in so many British shields. The true Norman 

 race bore, as above stated, G. 2 L, P. G. or ; the 

 Saxon line, G. 3 L. P. G. or ; and in 1326, Ed- 

 ward IIL assumed quarterly France and England, 

 giving the first place to France : thus (1. and 4.), 

 az. seme de Lis (3. 2. 3.), and (2. 3 ), gu. 3 L. 

 P. G. or. On this ground, I formerly ventured 

 to object to the accuracy of Heylin's blazon of 

 the arms of Henry I., Beauclerc. This objection, 

 however, rested on a mistaken appropriation of 

 the arms, pi. iii. f. 20. ; which, though placed so 

 early as p. 16., had, in fact, a reference to p. 150., 

 and to Charles Beauclerk, E. of Burford, created 

 D. of St. Albans, 35 Chas, IL, 1684. 



It has appeared that, though they are recorded 

 as an ornament of the crown of previous sove- 

 reigns, no Fs.-d.-L. were borne by Henry II. and 

 Richard I.; though, in 1190-2, the latter sove- 

 reign bestowed on Richard Plowden the augmen- 

 tation of 2 Fs.-d,-L. fjM- gallantry at the siege of 

 Acre (p. 350.). In th"same thii'd crusade, as we 

 have seen, John de Cantelupe, or Cantiloupe, bore 

 3 leopards' heads jessant Fs.-d.-L.; of which 

 bearing no further account is given than that it 

 descended to the bishopric of Hereford. 



In the second crusade (1146), under Louis VI., 

 and in the fourth, fifth, and sixth crusades, no 

 English subjects appear to have borne the charge. 

 In the years 1286-93, Rauf Sandwich, Ld. M. 

 of London, first bore gu. a F.-d.-L. or ; and from 

 those years to the year 1754, the last recorded by 

 Heylin, twenty-five successive Lords Mayor bore 

 the F.-d-L., or R. T. Of this number, nine bore 

 one alone, others from three to seme d. L. No 

 authority is given for the assumption of this 

 charge by the Lords Mayor, In 1297 (25 Edw. I.) 

 the name of Lennard is connected (1. and 4.) with 

 3 Fs.-d.-L. In 1307, John Barrett Lennard was 

 created Lord Dacre by Edw. II. But when, or 

 on what ground, the above ch»rge was granted, is 



