B34215-Langton

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Name of the family:

Langton

Blason:

Quarterly, 1st and 4th, for Langton, ar. three chev. gu.; 2nd and 3rd, for Banastre, ar. a cross patonce sa.

Crest(s):

The head of a maiden affrontée couped below the shoulders ppr. vested gu. cap and necklace or.

Info about the family:

Baron of Newton, co. Lancaster. The first of this family who settled in co. Lancaster was John de Langeton, son of Robert de Langeton, lord of the manor of West Langton, co. Leicester; he bore for arms a shield vair, as appears by his seal; he m. Alesia, dau. of James Banastre, and sole heiress of his father, Sir Robert Banastre, Baron of Newton, and Lord of Walton-in-the-Dale, co. Lancaster; his brother, John de Langeton, was Bishop of Chichester, 1805-37, and Chancellor of England, d. 1837; Sir Robert de Langeton, Knt., son of John de Langeton, bore three chev. (the arms of Banastre) within a bordure vair, but Ralph de Langeton, Baron of Newton, grandson of Sir Robert de Langeton, abandoned the bordure, as appears by his seal, 1864. According to the Visit. 1567, the later Langtons, Barons of Newton, bore:

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584

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