B18783-Dudley

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Name of the family:

Dudley

Blason:

Az. a chev. or, betw. three lions' heads erased ar.

Crest(s):

On a ducal coronet or, a woman's head with a helmet thereon, hair dishevelled, throat latch loose ppr. The Duplets, of Clapton, descended from the marriage of Dudlet, of Clapton, with Aones Hotot, bore this singular crest, and the occasion of its first adoption is thus recorded in a.manuscript written in 1390, by a monk who was Parson of Clapton:-" The father of Aones Hotot, the great heiress who married Dudley, having a dispute with one Ringsdalk, about the title to a piece of land, the competitors agreed to meet on the debate-able ground, and decide the affair by combat. Hotot, on the day appointed, was laid up with illness, but his daughter Aones, rather than the land should be lost, armed herself cap-a-pie, and mounting her father's steed, went and encountered Rinosdale, whom, after a stubborn contest, she unhorsed ; and when he was on the ground, she loosened her throat latch, lifted up her helmet, and let down her hair about her shoulders, thus discovering her sex. in commemoration of this exploit, the crest of the female head was ever afterwards used.

Info about the family:

Clapton, co. Northampton, bart., extinct 1764

Page in the book:

303

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