B56255-Villiers

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Name of the family:

Villiers

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Ar. on a cross gu. five escallops or.

Info about the family:

(Brokesby, co. Leicester, bart., extinct 1711; descended from Sir John de Villiers, Knt., of Brokesoy, temp. Henry III., who bore for arms, "five escallops upon the cross of St. George;" Sir George Villiers, Knt., of Brokesby, Sheriff co. Leicester, 33 Queen Elizabeth, d. 160S, leaving five sons: I. Sir William, created a bart. 1619; II. Sir Edward, created, 1620, Viscount Grandison, ancestor of the Earls of Grandison, Jersey, and Clarendon; III. Sir John, created, 1619, Viscount Purbeck; IV. Sir George, created, 1623, Duke of Buckingham; V. Christopher, created, 1623, Earl of Anglesey; Sir William Villiers, third and last bart. of Brokesby, sold that estate to the Lord Keeper, Sir Nathan Wrighte, and d.s.p.

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