B7445-Bracebridge

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Name of the family:

Bracebridge

Blason:

Vaire, ar. and la. a fesse gu.

Crest(s):

A staff (erased) raguly ar.; Another, (Har. MSS.) On a mount vert a wolf pass. ppr.

Motto:

Be as God will.

Info about the family:

co. Warwick, descended from Peter de Bracebrigge, of Bracebrigg, co. Lincoln, and afterwards of Kingsbury, co. Warwick, who m. Amicia, granddau. and ultimately heiress of TurchlU de Arden, Earl of Warwick, who in right of his second wife Leverunia, inherited from Leofric, third Earl of Mercia, about forty-eight towns in Warwickshire, together with Kingsbury, the ancient residence of Bertulphus, King of Mercia in 800, and subsequently of other Saxon earls before the Norman Conquest. Confirmed by the deputies of Camden, Clarenceux, Har. MSS., Her. Vis., and Gu. Coll. MS. The male lineal descendants of this family were Cbablbs Holtb Bbacebbidoe, Esq., of Atherstone HalL co. Warwick, chief representative of the family, who received a quit rent of L40 a year from Kingsbury; and his cousin, Henry Walteb Bbacebbidoe, of Chetwode Priory, co. Buckingham, and of More-ville House, near Warwick

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112

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