B57884-Wellesley-Pole

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Name of the family:

Wellesley-Pole

Blason:

Quarterly, 1st and 4th, az. semée-de-lis or, a lion ramp. ar., for Pole; 2nd, gu. a cross ar. betw. five plates in each quarter saltireways, for Wellesley; 3rd, or, a lion ramp. gu., for Colley.

Crest(s):

1st, Pole, A lion's gamb erect and erased gu. armed or; 2nd, Wellesley, Out of a ducal coronet or, a demi lion ramp. gu. holding a forked pennon also gu. flowing to the sinister, one-third per pale from the staff ar. charged with a cross of St. George; 3rd, Colley, A cubit arm erect, vested gu. cuffed ar. holding in the hand a scymitar ppr. pommel and hilt or, the arm enfiled with a ducal coronet gold.

Supporters:

Two lions gu. each gorged with an Eastern crown and chained or.

Motto:

Pollet virtus.

Info about the family:

Baron Maryborough extinct 1868; Hon. William Wellesley, second son of Garrett, first Earl of Mornington, assumed the additional surname of Pole, and was created, 1821, Baron Maryborough; in 1842 he s. his brother, Richard, Marquess of Wellesley, as third Earl of Mornington, when the Barony of Maryborough merged in the earldom until the death of William Richard Arthur, fifth Earl of Mornington, 1863; the barony then became extinct, and the earldom devolved on the male heir of the family, Arthur Richard, second Duke of Wellington

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1090

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