B50319-Skeffington

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Name of the family:

Skeffington

Blason:

Same Arms, quartering, Az. a chev. erm. betw. three chaplets or, for Clotwortht.

Crest(s):

A mermaid with comb and mirror all ppr.

Supporters:

Two stags sa. attired and unguled or, each gorged with a chaplet of white roses seeded and barbed ppr.

Motto:

Per anguBta ad augusta.

Info about the family:

Earl of Massereene, extinct 1816; Sir John Clotwortht, Knt., of Antrim, having been active in promoting the Restoration, was created, 1660, Viscount Massereene, with remainder to his son-in-law, Sir John Skeffington, fifth bart. of Fisherwick, husband of his only dau. Mary Clotwortht, with remainder to the heirs male of his body, and in default remainder to the heirs general of him, the grantee; he d. 1665, when he was s. by Sir John Skeffington, as second viscount; the fifth viscount was created, 1786, Earl of Massereene; the fourth Earl d. 1816, leaving an only dau. Mary, wife of Henry, first Viscount Feirard. She s. as heir general of the first viscount as Piscounteu Massereene in her own right, while the earldom became extinct

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930

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