Brand Family Crest, Coat of Arms and Name History

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Blazons & Genealogy Notes

1) (Baron Dacre). Per bend sinister erm. and ermines a lion ramp. or. Crest—On a chapeau gu. turned up erm. a wyvern sa. Supporters—Dexter a wolf ar. gorged with a spiked collar with line reflexed over the back or; sinister, a bull gu. armed ducally gorged and line reflexed over the back, or. Motto—Pour bien desirer. Source: Burke’s
2) (Holhom, London). Az. two swords in saltire ar. hilts in base or, within a bordure engr. of the last pellettee. Crest—A leopard’s head and neck erased guard, quarterly ar. and or, semee of roundles of three colours sa. vert and gu. Source: Burke’s
3) (Gray’s Inn, and Suffolk, 1616). Az. two swords in saltire ar. hilted in base or, a bordure engr. of the last. Crest—Out of a ducal coronet or, a leopard’s (or lion’s) head guard, ar. semee of roundles of various colours. Source: Burke’s
4) (Moulsey, co. Surrey, 1591). Or, a chev. betw. three dexter hands couped at the wrist sa. Crest—Out of a ducal coronet or, a cockatrice’s head gu. betw. two wings ppr. Source: Burke’s
5) (Sir Thomas Brand, Gentleman Usher of the Green Rod, and Gentleman Usher Daily Waiter to King George I.). Quarterly, 1st and 4th, az. two batons or, ensigned on the top with the unicorn of Scotland; 2nd, and 3rd, or, on a bend sa. three mascles ar. a chief az. charged with as many stars of the third. Crest—A vol with a baton, as in the arms, in pale. Motto—Advance. Source: Burke’s
6) (Baberton, Scotland). Ar on a bend sa. three mascles of the first, on a chief of the second, as many spur rowels or. Crest—Two proboscides of elephants in pale, couped, flexed and reflexed ar.; that on the dexter charged with three mascles, the sinister with as many spur rowels sa. Motto—Ay forward. Source: Burke’s
7) Vert a griffin pass, and a chief or. Source: Burke’s
8) (Wherstead and Woodbridge, co. Suffolk). Vert a chev. crenellee or, betw. three dolphins embowed ar. Crest—Two snakes colled vert, and a dexter arm in armour embowed, holding in the hand a truncheon or staff, fired at both ends. Source: Burke’s