Chamberlain Family Crest, Coat of Arms and Name History

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Blazons & Genealogy Notes

1) (London, created a bart., 1828). Gu. within an orle ar. charged with eight mullets az. an armillary sphere or. Crest—An eagle displ. ppr., the dexter claw resting on an armillary sphere or. Motto—Spes et fides.
2) Erm. on a chev. gu. three garbs or.
3) Erm. on a pale sa. three leopards’ heads or.
4) (Cambridge). Ar. fretty sa. on a chief of the second three plates. Cresl—An ass’s head erased ppr. ducally gorged or.
5) (London). Gu. an escutcheon ar. within an orle of cinquefoils or. Crest—Out of a mural coronet gu. a demi lion ramp. or, holding in his dexter paw a key ar.
6) (London). Sa. a chev. betw. three mullets erm.
7) (Suffolk, Norfolk, and Cambridge). Or, fretty sa. on a chief of the second three bezants. Crest—An ass’s head erased ar. ducally gorged or.
8) (Yorkshire). Ar. a chev. betw. three cinquefoils sa.
9) (Yorkshire). Ar. a chev. cottised betw. three escallops sa.
10) Az. a chev. cottised betw. three escallops or. Crest—An ass’s head couped ar.
11) Gu. three escallops or.
12) Ar. a fret sa. on a chief of the second three chess-rooks of the field.
13) Or, an eagle displ. vert, armed of the last.
14) (Worcester). Ar. an eagle displ. gu. armed or.
15) Gu. two keys in saltire or.
16) Ar. a chev. betw. three ravens’ (another, eagles’) legs erased sa.
17) Or, on a bend gu. three lozenges vair.
18) Erm. on a chief indented az. two cronells or.
19) Or, a chev. betw. three leopards’ faces gu.
20) (John Chamberlayne, temp. Richard II., descended from the Comtes de Tankerville, founded in England by John de Tankerville, Chamberlain to Henry I., who assumed his surname from his office). Gu. a fesse betw. three escallops or.
21) (Sherborne, co. Oxford, John Chamberlayne, the last of that place, temp. James I., left two daus., his coheirs, viz., Mary, m. 1st Sir Thomas Gage, Bart., of Firle, co. Sussex, and 2nd Sir William Goring, Bart., of Burton, in same co.; Elizabeth, m. John, 8th Lord Abergavenny. Gu. a chev. betw. three escallops or. Crest—Out of a ducal coronet or, an ass’s head ar.
22) (Astley, co. Warwick, confirmed with a quartering by the Deputies of Camden, Clarenceux, to John Chamberlayne, Esq., J.P., of Astley, great grandson of Edward Chamberlayne, Esq., of Sherborne, co. Oxford). Gu. an inescutcheon ar. within an orle of eight mullets or. Crest—Out of a ducal coronet gu. the head of an ass ar.
23) (Presbury, co. Gloucester, and Thoroldby, co. York). (Prince Thorpe, co. Warwick, descended from Sir Thomas Chamberlayne, of Prince Thorpe and Presbury, a distinguished diplomatist temp. Henry VIII. and Elizabeth) (Cranbury Park, and Weston Grove, co. Hants, descended from a young branch of the ancient House of Chamberlayne.).(Wickham, co. Oxford, descended from Presbury, created a bart. 1642, extinct 1776). Quarterly, 1st and 4th, gu. an inescutcheon in an orle of mullets ar.; 2nd and 3rd, gu. a chev. betw. three escallops or. Crest—Out of a ducal coronet or, an ass’s head ppr. Motto—Prodesse quam conspici. Motto—Mors potior macula. Motto—Virtuti nihil invium.
24) (Maugersbury and Oddington, co. Gloucester). Quarterly, 1st and 4th, gu. a chev. betw. three escallops ar.; 2nd and 3rd, gu. on a fesse engr. ar. betw. three griffins’ heads erased or, as many crosses pattee fitchee sa. Crests—1st: Out of a ducal coronet an ass’s head; 2nd: A lion’s head erased, charged with three trefoils. Motto—Virtute nihil invium.
25) (Newton Harcourt, co. Leicester. Visit. Leicester 1619). Gu. a chev. betw. three escallops or.
26) (Chamberlaynestown, and Athboy, co. Meath, living there temp. Edward IV., descended from the Counts of Tankerville, now represented by Tankerville Chamberlaine, Esq., of Dublin, grandson of Tankerville Chamberlaine, Justice of the Court of King’s Bench, Ireland. Visit, co. Dublin, 1619). Gu. a chev. engr. or, betw. three escallops ar. Crest—A Pegasus.
27) (Lancaster). Sa. a stag’s head cabossed within an orle of escallops ar.
28) (Lincoln). Gu. a fesse engr. ar. betw. three escallops or.
29) Gu. a cress or, a label of France.
30) (Hugh Chamberlen, M.D., court physician, temp. James II. and Queen Anne, descended from the same ancestry as the Chamberlaynes, of Gloucestershire). Gu. an inescutcheon betw. eight cinquefoils ar. Crest—A dexter arm couped and embowed holding up a grenade fired, all ppr.
31) (London). Erm. on a pale sa. three leopards’ faces or. Crest—Out of a Saxon coronet an ostrich in the beak a key.
32) Quarterly, gu. and or.
33) Ar. a chev. betw. three leopards’ heads gu.
34) Ar. an eagle displ. gu. armed or.