B48464-St--Leger

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Name of the family:

St. Leger

Blason:

Az. fretty ar. a chief or.

Crest(s):

A griffin pass. or.

Supporters:

Two griffins or, wings elevated and endorsed fretty az.

Motto:

Haut et bon.

Info about the family:

Viscount and Baron Doneraile, extinct 1767; descended from William St. Leger, eldest son of Sir Anthony St. Leger, K.G., of Ulcombe, co. Kent, Lord Deputy of Ireland 1540, who was a descendant of Robert St. Leger, one of the companions of William I.; Sir Anthony St. Leger left Ulcombe to his second son, having disinherited his eldest son, who had a son and successor, Sir Warham St. Leger, Commissioner for the Government of Munster, 1599, fell in combat with Hugh McGuire, Lord of Fermanagh, who fell himself at the same time; Right Hon. Arthur St. Leger, the great-grandson of Sir Warham St. Leoeb, was created a peer 1703; the fourth viscount d.s.p., and devised his estates to St. Leger Aldworth, second son of his sister, Hon. Elizabeth St. Leger, by her husband, Richard Aldworth, Esq., of Newmarket, co. Cork, who assumed the name of St. Leger, and was created Viscount Doncraile 1785

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