Slanning Coat of Arms / Family Crest

(Maristow, co. Devon, bart., extinct 1700; originally of Ley, in the parish of Shaugh; the representative of the family, temp. Charles I., was the renowned Sir Nicholas Slanning, of Maristow, so gallant a royalist and so sound a counsellor as to be considered one of the Devon and Cornish commanders who formed “the four wheels of Charles’s wain,” and who, to the great injury of their Sovereign’s success, were severally killed about the same period at the battles of Stratton and Lansdowne, and the Siege of Bristol, in all of which Sir Nicholas bore a very conspicuous part; his son and successor, Sir Nicholas Slanning, K.B., was created a bart. 1662; the second bart. d. s. p.). Ar. two pales engr. gu. on a bend sa. three griffins’ heads erased or. Crest—A demi lion ramp. az. collared or.

Devonshire – (Baronet, 19 janv. 1662-63. M. ét. le 21 nov. 1700) – D’argent à deux pals engrelés de gueules à la bande d’azur brochant sur le tout et ch de trois têtes de griffon d’or posées dans le sens de la bande Cimier un lion issant d’azur colleté d’or