Chiche Coat of Arms / Family Crest

(borne by the eminent prelate of the reigns of Henry IV, V, and VI. Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury, and his brother, Sir Robert Chichele, Lord Mayor of London 1411 and 1421. He was born at Higham Ferrers, co. Northampton, in 1362, the eldest son of Thomas Chichele, of that place, and d. in 1443, having erected and endowed a few years before, the College of All Souls, Oxford. The archbishcp had one sister m. into the Tooke family, and two brothers, Sir Robert Chichele, Knt., Lord Mayor of London in 1411 and 1421, and William Chichele, also a citizen of London, and sheriff in 1411). Or, a chev. betw. three cinquefoils, gu.

(Wimple, co. Cambridge, descended from Henry, a younger son of John Chichele, second son of William Chichele, youngest brother of the Archbishop. The heiress of the Chicheles, of Wimpole, the only dau. of Richard Chichele, LL.D., m. Christopher Griffiths, Esq., of Padworth, co. Berks). Asthe preceding. Crest—A tiger pass. ar. holding in his mouth a man’s leg, couped at the thigh ppr. the foot downwards.

Lorraine – (An., 18 août 1510) – D’or au pal de gueules ch de trois molettes de sable à la bordure d’azur ch de quatorze croissants d’argent