Coats of Arms
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COATS, CRESTS AND MOTTOS COATS OF ARMS
The Muschamp family Coat of Arms has evolved over the years, but the one
depicted on my home page would appear to be the oldest, as it dates back to
the days of Robert de Muschamp, the 1st Baron of Wooler.
The following descriptions of seven Coats of Arms are taken from the Winter
1973 edition of the Genealogical Quarterly magazine, and were, themselves
Notes from an Armory of 1842. MUSCHAMP
[Feudal Barons of Wooler, co. Northumberland; derived from the
marriage of Cicely, dau. and eventual heir of Robert de Muschamp (who
obtained divers lordships from Henry I.) with Sir Stephen Bulmer, a second
son of the great family of Bulmer, of Sheriff Hutton, co. York: the daus. and
co-heirs of Robert de Muschamp, Baron of Wooler, who was great-grandson of
Sir Stephen and Cicely, and who d. in 1249, were - Cicely, m.
to Odinel de Ford; Mary, m. to Malise, Earl of Strathearn, in Scotland;
and Isabella, m. to William de Huntercombe]. A deed of Robert de
Muschamp’s ratifying certain grants of land in Howburn to the Monks of
Durham, bears his seal, "or, three bars gu.;" but the
more ancient ensigns of the family were: "Ar. a chev. vert, betw.
three flies proper". The insects in the arms, are, in some
authorities, called bees, in other, butterflies, or beetles, but they are
obviously "flies", allusive to the presumed derivation of the name
from "musca". MUSCHAMP
[Barmoor, co. Northumberland;
descended from Sir William de Muschamp, of Barmoor, living in 1267, son of
Stephen, who was third son of Thomas de Muschamp, Baron of Wooler, and
grandson of Sir Stephen Bulmer, by Cycely his wife, dau. of Robert, first
Baron Muschamp, of Wooler]. "Or, three bars gu". MUSCHAMP
[Horsley, co. Surrey; Mary, only
surviving dau. and heir of Denny Muschamp, of Horsley, esq. Muster-Master
General of Ireland, by Elizabeth his wife, dau. of Michael Boyle, Archbishop
of Armagh, m. Sir Thomas Vessey, of Ireland, knt] "Or,
three bars gu". MUSCHAMP
[Brotherlee, co. Durham; a branch of the Muschamps of Barmoor, derived, it is
presumed, from John, fifth son of George Muschamp, of Barmoor, esq. high
sheriff of Northumberland, in 1596, by Elizabeth, his wife, dau. of John
Selby, of Twysell: the present representative is JOHN DOVER MUSCHAMP, of
Brotherlee, esq. son and heir of the late Emerson Muschamp, of Brotherlee.] "Ar.
a chev. vert, betw. three flies ppr" CREST "A lion
ramp. gu. holding in the dexter paw a banner ar. bearing a crescent or".
MOTTO "vulneror non vincor". MUSCHAMP
"Az. a fesse engr. or,
betw. three talbots’ heads erased ar." MUSCHAMP
"Az. three butterflies
volant or." MUSCHAMP
[Cork, Ireland] "Or, three bars
gu. on a canton az. a harvest-fly displ. of the first". |
