Image: William Brooke (1527–1597), 10th Baron Cobham
Title: w:William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham (1527–1597), KG, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. Wearing the Collar of the Order of the Garter and holding staff of office as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports. For heraldry see: D'Elboux, R.H., The Brooke Tomb, Cobham (re: arms of William Brooke, 10th Baron Cobham (1527-1597) Cobham Church, Kent, quarterly of 15), published in Archaeologia Cantiana, Vol.62, 1949, pp.48-56, esp. pp.50-1[1] Escutcheon quarterly of 12: 1: Gules, on a chevron argent a lion rampant sable crowned or (Brooke) 2: Argent, on a chevron or three lions rampant sable (Cobham) 3: Argent, seven mascles gules (Braybrooke) 4: Azure, two bars wavy argent (De la Pole of Chrishall, Essex & Castle Ashby) 5: Gules, a fess (argent) between nine cross-crosslets or (Peverel (of Langton (w:Thorpe Langton) in Leicestershire; Brington & Castle Ashby in Northamptonshire) & for fess argent see Burke's General Armory, 1884[2]) 6: Vair, three bends gules (or: Gules, three bends vair) (Bray ancient) 7: Argent, a chevron between three eagle's claws erased sable (Bray modern) 8: Or, on a bend gules three goats argent (Hallighwell, a Bray heiress (Halwell of Halwell in the parish of Harberton, Devon (Risdon, Tristram (d.1640), Survey of Devon, 1811 edition, London, 1811, with 1810 Additions, p.166)) 9: Sable, a chevron between three bull's heads cabossed argent (Norbury, a Bray heiress (Norbury of Stoke in Surrey (Risdon, Tristram (d.1640), Survey of Devon, 1811 edition, London, 1811, with 1810 Additions, p.166)) 10: Gules, a fess chequy argent and sable between six crosslets formée fitchée argent (Boteler of Wem, Shropshire, a Bray heiress) 11: Or, two bends gules (Sudeley, a Boteler heiress) 12: Bendy of ten or and azure (Mountford (of Beaudesert, Warwickshire)), a Sudeley heiress
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Author: Antonis Mor
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