Notes on the Arms of Cardinal Pole. 



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divisions, the first containing Monthermer and the remaining two 

 De Clare quartering Le Despencer. 



It is evident that the engraver intended, or was intended, to 

 represent a shield of arms quarterly of eight coats, as follows :— 

 1. Plantagenet: Quarterly ; 1 and 4, France Modern— Azure , 

 three fleurs-de-lis or, 2 and 3, England — Gules, three lions 

 passant guardant in pale or ; over all a label of Clarence — ■ 

 Argent, on each file a canton gules. 

 % Pole : Per pale or and sable, a saltire engrailed countercharged. 



3. Neville of Salisbury: Gules, a saltire argent and a label 



compony of the second and azure. 



4. Beauchamp of Warwick : 1 Gules, a fess between six crosses 



crosslet or. 



5. Newburgh : 2 Chequy or and azure, a chevron ermine. 



6. Montacute : 3 Argent, three fusils conjoined in fess gules. 



7. Monthermer : 3 Or, an eagle displayed vert, armed gules. 



8. Le Despencer : Quarterly ; 1 and 4, De Clare — Or, 



three chevrons gules, 2 and 3, Le Despencer — Quarterly 

 argent and gules, the second and third fretty or, over all a 

 bendlet sable. 



1 William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick, "bore for his arms Gules, 

 semee of cross crosslets with a fess or, which cross crosslets were added to his 

 coat for his father bore them not ; but whether in testimony of any pilgrimage 

 by him made into the Holy Land, or vow to do so, I cannot determine." 

 {Complete Peerage, vol. viii., p. 56, note e., quoting Dugdale.) His grandson, 

 Thomas, 11th Earl, reduced the number of the crosses crosslet to six, and 

 bore " De goul a un fes dor, a sis croiseletz, les boutz iumelz," (MS. Ashm., 

 15 A.) which arms were thenceforth recognised as the arms of the Earldom 

 of Warwick. 



2 " Waleran (de Newburgh, 4th Earl of Warwick, 1184 to 1204) is the first 

 to whom these arms . . . are attributed by Rous (see note 2 p. 343). It is 

 worthy of note that they are composed of a chevron added to the shield of 

 Warenne, his mother's family." (Doyle. Official Baronage, vol, iii.p. 573.) 

 Before Waleran's time the arms spoken of as Newburgh Ancient (see note 4 

 p. 344) were (according to Vincent on Brooke, quoting Rous), used by his 

 ancestors. 



3 See the monument of Sir John de Montacute, Lord Montacute, in Salisbury 

 Cathedral. 



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