B51911-Stapleton

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Name of the family:

Stapleton

Blason:

Quarterly, 1st, ar. a lion ramp. sa., for Stapleton; 2nd, az. three dexter hand gauntlets with their backs forward or, for Fane ; 3rd, gu. on a saltire ar. a rose of the field, barbed and seeded ppr., for Neville; 4th, quarterly, ar. and gu. in the 2nd and 3rd quarters a fret or, over all a bend sa., for Spencer.

Crest(s):

Out of a ducal coronet or, a Saracen's head affronted ppr. wreathed about the temples ar. and sa.

Supporters:

Dexter, a griffin, wings elevated or, collared and line reflexed over the back sa. the collar charged with three escallops ar.; sinister, a bull ar. pied so. armed, hoofed, collared, and chain reflexed over the back or.

Motto:

Pro Magna Charta; and, Ne vile fano.

Info about the family:

Baron Le Despencer; Sir Thomas Stapleton, sixth bart. of the Leeward Islands, being, through his great-grandmother, Lady Kathebine Fane, dau. of Verb, fifth Earl of Westmorland, a co-heir to the Barony of Le Despencert was summoned as twenty-second Lord Le Despencer 1788; his oldest son d. v. p., leaving an only dau., Mary Frances Elizabeth Stapleton ; Lord Le Despencer d. 1831, when the barony descended to his granddau. and the baronetcy descended to his younger son as heir male

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964

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