Moody Family Crest, Coat of Arms and Name History

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Blazons & Genealogy Notes

1) Moodie (Melsetter, in the Orkney Isles, now of the Cape of Good Hope). Quarterly, 1st and 4th, az. three ships in full sail ar. on a chief wavy gu. a beacon or; 2nd and 3rd, az. a chev. erm. betw. three pheons ar. in chief a hunting-horn or. Crest—On a naval coronet a lion pass. holding a flag, on a scroll above the same, “ The reward of valour.” The ancient motto of the family was, “God with us.” The 2nd and 3rd quarters are the ancient coat of Moodie, or Mudie, of Melsetter; the 1st and 4th quarters being an augmentation granted by Queen Anne.
2) Mudie (Melsetter, in the Orkney Isles, now of the Cape of Good Hope). Quarterly, 1st and 4th, az. three ships in full sail ar. on a chief wavy gu. a beacon or; 2nd and 3rd, az. a chev. erm. betw. three pheons ar. in chief a hunting-horn or. Crest—On a naval coronet a lion pass. holding a flag, on a scroll above the same, “ The reward of valour.” The ancient motto of the family was, “God with us.” The 2nd and 3rd quarters are the ancient coat of Moodie, or Mudie, of Melsetter; the 1st and 4th quarters being an augmentation granted by Queen Anne.
3) Moodie (England). Ar. a chev. betw, three trefoils sa. a chief of the last. Crest—A demi pegasus, wings endorsed, body enfiled with a ducal coronet.
4) Moodie – Az. a chev. erm. betw. three pheons ar.
5) Moody (Aspley, co. Bedford; Edmund Moody, Esq., of Southampton, m. Ursula, sister and co-heir of Richard Vernon Sadleir, Esq., of Aspley Guise, a descendant of Sir Ralph Sadleir, temp. Henry VIII., Edward VI., Mary 1., and Queen Elizabeth). Per pale az. and ar. a chev. engr. betw. three trefoils slipped, a chief per pale thereon three fusils all counterchanged, quartering Sadleir, Chute, Trott, and A’Leigh. Crest—Two falchions in saltire ppr. pommels and hilts or, surmounted by a wolf’s head erased per pale ar. and az.
6) Moody – Ar. on a fesse sa. betw. three trefoils slipped az. as many mascles or, on a chief of the third two hands in fesse issuant from clouds on the dexter and sinister sides ppr. holding a rose gu. Creat—Two arms embowed and crossed in saltire near the wrist, the dexter vested gu. surmounted of the sinister vested vert, cuffs ar. each holding in the hand a falchion ppr. pommels and hilts or, the blades saltireways.
7) Moodye or Moodye (Garesdon, co. Wilts, bart., unclaimed since 1662). Vert a fesse engr. ar. surmounted of another gu. betw. three harpies of the second crined or. Crest—A wolf’s head erased ppr.
8) Moodye (Ipswich, co. Suffolk). Ar. on a chev. engr. sa. betw. three trefoils slipped vert as many lozenges or, on a chief az. two arms issuing from clouds ppr. vested bendy or and gu. holding in the hands a rose of the last. Crest—Two arms embowed in saltire, the dexter vested gu. the sinister vert, each holding a cutlass ar. hilted or
9) Mudie (Arbeckie, Scotland). Az. a chev. erm. betw. three pheons ar. a border of the last. Crest—A pheon ar. Motto—Defensio non offensio.

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