Lermitte Coat of Arms / Family Crest

(St. Saviour’s, Jersey; Stratford Green, Essex; Colney Hatch, and Knightons, Middlesex; descended from Renault L’Hermite, Seigneur de Herrimont in Auvergne, A.D. 1020. A branch of his descendants migrated from Normandy to the Channel Islands, and, in the records of Jersey, of the first part of the 16th century, Guillaume le Riolet dit l’Hermite is found in litigation with Helier de la Rocque concerning lands in St. Helier, and St. Sauveur, Jersey. The present James Henri Lermitte, Esq., of Knightons, J.P., is great-grandson of his descendant Philip le Riolet dit L’Hermite, of St. Saviour’s, who settled at Stratford Green, and changed the spelling of his name to Lermitte). Vert a string of nine beads, chevronwise, betw. three cinquefoils, in the centre chief point a garb all or. Crest—A hermit habited in russet, resting the dexter hand on a staff ppr. holding in the sinister hand a cross patee, and pendent from the wrist a rosary or. Motto—Dieu le veut.