The Noble and Gentle Men of England: or, notes touching the arms and descents of the ancient knightly and gentle houses of England, arranged in their respective counties.Shirley, Evelyn Philip
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The Noble and Gentle Men of England: or, notes touching the arms and descents of the ancient knightly and gentle houses of England, arranged in their respective counties.
Shirley, Evelyn Philip
Great Britain -- Genealogy; Heraldry -- Great Britain; Nobility -- Great Britain
See Poulson's Holderness, vol. ii. p. 60; Clutterbuck's
Hertfordshire, vol. i. p. 95; Brydges's Collins, vol. viii. p. 209;
and the Scrope and Grosvenor Roll, vol. ii. p. 292. See also
Boutell's Brasses, p. 129, for inscriptions to Sir Edward Grimston
and his son in Rishangles Church, near Eye, in Suffolk.
ARMS.--_Argent, on a fess sable three mullets of six points or,
pierced gules_. This coat was borne by Monsieur Gerrard de Grymston
in the reign of Richard II. (Roll.)
Present Representative, Marmaduke Gerard Grimston, Esq.
WYVILL OF CONSTABLE-BURTON.
[Illustration] This ancient Norman family is said to be descended
from Sir Humphry de Wyvill, who lived at the time of the Conquest,
and whose descendants were seated at Slingsby in this county; the
more modern part of the pedigree begins with Robert Wyvill of Ripon,
whose son was of Little Burton, in the reign of Henry VIII.; from
thence the family migrated to Constable-Burton, about the end of the
reign of James I. During the Civil Wars of the seventeenth century,
the Wyvills were distinguished by their loyalty and consequent
sufferings in the royal cause. An elder line of this family, on whom
the Baronetcy, created in 1611, has descended, is said to be
resident in Maryland, in the United States of America.
See Leland's Itinerary, vol. iv. pl. i.; Whitaker's Richmondshire,
vol. i. p. 322; and Wotton's Baronetage, vol. i. p. 232.
ARMS.--_Gules, three chevronels interlaced vaire, and a chief or_.
The arms are founded upon the coat of Fitz Hugh, and may be taken as
a proof of high antiquity.
Present Representative, Marmaduke Wyvill, Esq.
TEMPEST OF BROUGHTON.
[Illustration] The pedigree of this ancient family is traced to
Roger, whom Dr. Whitaker calls "Progenitor of this the oldest and
most distinguished of the Craven families now surviving. That this
man was a Norman the name will not permit us to doubt; that he was a
dependant of Roger of Poitou is extremely probable; that he was at
all events possessed of Bracewell (in Craven) early in the reign of
Henry I., is absolutely certain." Dr. Whitaker proceeds to remark on
the name of Tempest, which he says, "whatever was its origin, seems
to have been venerated by the family, as in the two next centuries,
when local appellation became almost universal, they never chose to
part with it." The elder line of the Tempests continued at Bracewell
till the time of Charles I., when Richard Tempest, the last
representative, pulled down the family house, and devised the estate
to a distant relation. The house of Broughton descends directly from
Roger, second son of Sir Peirs Tempest, which Roger married in the
seventh of Henry IV. Katharine daughter and heir of Peter Gilliott
of Broughton, which has been ever since the seat of the Tempests--
"a name never stained with dishonour, but often illustrated with
deeds of arms."
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