(Hardwick, co. Salop, bart., created 1818, extinct 1866; descended from Iorwerth Goch, Lord of Mochnant, younger son of Meredith, Prince of Powys). Quarterly, 1st and 4th, erm. a chev. gu.; 2nd and 3rd, as derived from Meredith ap Bleddyn, ar. a lion ramp. sa. The origin of the first coat, erm. a chev. gu., is thus narrated: Sir Roger Kynaston was a Yorkist, and as a soldier was reckoned one of the most able and illustrious heroes of his time. He was present, mounted on his white charger (Ar ei gwrser gwyn) at the battle of Bloreheath, near Drayton, co. Salop, 22 Sept. 1459, under the command of the Earl of Salisbury. At this battle Lord Audley, the Lancasterian leader, fell, according to the family tradition, by the hand of Roger Kynaston. Two years after the battle, when the Earl of March ascended the throne under the title of Edward IV. he not only knighted the squire of Hordley, but also assigned to him the confiscated arms of the fallen Audley as an honorary addition to his own, which were borne in the 1st quarter of the Kynaston shield.
(Oteley Park, co. Salop; descended from Kynaston, Bart., of Hardwick; Mary, sister and co-heiress of Edward Ktnaston, Esq., of Otley, m. James Mainwaring, of Brombrough, co. Chester, one of the Barons of the Exchequer). Ar. a lion ramp. sa. Crest—A lion’s head erased sa. guttée d’or.
(Poole, co. Dorset; descended from Kynaston, Bart., of Hardwick). Same Arms.
(Hordley, co. Salop). Erm. a chev. gu. Crest—A dexter arm embowed in armour ppr. holding a sword ar. hilt or, all against a sun of the last.
(Ryton Stokes, Shrewsbury, Woodhouse and Shotter, co. Salop; granted 19 April, 1569). Ar. a chev. engr. betw. three mullets sa. Crest—An eagle’s head erased sa. ducally gorged ar. in the beak a sprig of laurel vert.
(Thorington, co. Essex). Same Arms, a martlet for diff.
(confirmed by Roberts, Ulster, to Col. John Kynaston, third son of Rev. Ralph Kynaston, B.D., Chaplain to James I., and grandson of Roger Kynaston, Esq. of Morton, co. Salop). Ar. a lion ramp. sa. armed and langued gu. a crescent charged with a mullet for diff. Crest—An armed arm in armour embowed, the hand holding a sword within a sun all ppr. Motto—Honor potestate honorantis.
(exemplified to Rev. Walter Charles Edward Owens, Incumbent of St. John’s, Huddersfield, co. York, on assuming the name of Kynaston, by royal licence, 1868). Erm. a chev. gu., and for distinction a canton of the last. Crest—In front of a sun in splendour a dexter arm embowed in armour, the hand grasping; a sword all ppr. the arm charged above the elbow (for distinction) with a cross crosslet gu. Motto—Deus est nobis sol et ensis
Shropshire, Suffolk – (Baronet, 8 déc. 1818. M. ét. en 1866) – Écartelé aux 1 et 4 d’hermine au chevron de gueules (Audley) aux 2 et 3 d’argent au lion de sable (Powys) Cimier un bras armé brandissant une épée devant un soleil le tout au naturel
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