Lentaigne Coat of Arms / Family Crest

(Tallaght, co. Dublin ; John Francis Lentaigne, Esq., C.B., J. P. cos. Dublin and Monaglian, Inspector-General of Prisons, and Commissioner of National Education in Ireland, represents the Irish branch of an ancient family of Normandy, where the head of the elder branch, Gustave, Count Lentaigne de Logiviere, resides on his estate of De Beauvoir, near Livarot, Calvados. The Irish branch descends from Jean Francois Lentaigne, b. 1699, d. 1780, fifth son of Richard Lentaigne, Sieur de la Croix, d. 1720, the common ancestor of both houses). Quarterly, 1st and 4th, or, on a chev. az. betw. three martlets sa. a fleur-de-lis of the field, on a chief of the second three mullets ar., for Lentaigne; 2nd, ar. two lions ramp. combatant, supporting a dexter hand couped at the wrist gu. in chief three estoiles of the last, in base, in waves of the sea a salmon naiant all ppr., for O’Neill; 3rd, sa. a bend ar. in chief a tower of the last, for Plunkett. Mr. Lentaigne, C.B., bears on an escutcheon of pretence, in right of his wife, Mary, dau. and co-heir of Francis Magan, Esq., of Emoe, co. Westmeath, ar. a chev. betw. three boars pass. az. Crest—A dove ppr. charged on the breast with a mullet ar. holding in the beak a fleur-de-lis or. Mottoes—Over the crest: Profide, rege, et patria pugno; under the arms: Dieu ayde.