Category:Somery arms
Basic arms & blazon
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Arms of Somery, feudal barons of Dudley, Worcestershire and Barons by writ of Dudley Castle: Or, two lions passant in pale azure (arms of Paynel / Paganell / Paganel / Painell, feudal barons of Dudley)
Arms of Somery, feudal barons of Dudley, Worcestershire (Sanders, I.J. English Baronies: A Study of their Origin and Descent 1086-1327, Oxford, 1960, pp.113-114) and Barons by writ of Dudley Castle: Or, two lions passant azure. These were originally the arms of Paynel / Paganell / Paganel / Painell, feudal barons of Dudley, as seen on the seal of Gervayse Paynel, landlord at Little Crawley, Bucks, of John I de Somery (d.pre-1194) (GEC Complete Peerage, Vol 12.1, p.109; "Paganell, Paganel, Painell", Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.770) who acquired the feudal barony of Dudley by marriage to the heiress Hawise Paynel. Arms shown on the Parliamentary Roll for "Sire Perceval de Somery of Warwickshire": Azure, two lions passant or. The de Sutton family (whose arms were Or, a lion rampant double-queued vert) inherited Dudley Castle, and the feudal barony of Dudley, by marriage to Margaret de Somery, daughter of Roger de Somery. The Sutton family then adopted the arms of Somery, formerly the arms of Paynel. These arms of Somery were borne in 1st and 4th quarters by by w:John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley (1400-1487), KG, whose second son Sir John Dudley, of Atherington, adopted the surname "Dudley" in lieu of his patronymic (Burke, 1884, p.303), and was the father of Edmund Dudley (minister of King Henry VII), whose son was John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, father of Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, who in one portrait bears these arms of Somery in the first quarter, omitting entirely the usual arms of Dudley (Or, a lion rampant double-queued vert ("Sutton (ancient)"))
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Media in category "Somery arms"
The following 10 files are in this category, out of 10 total.
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Berkeley (of Stoke Gifford, Gloucestershire) Quartered Arms.svg 578 × 663; 186 KB
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Blason ville fr Sommery (Seine-Maritime).svg 600 × 660; 43 KB
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Coat of arms of Sir Andrew Dudley, KG.png 1,000 × 1,000; 960 KB
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Coat of Arms of Sir John Sutton, 1st Baron Dudley, KG.png 1,158 × 1,158; 916 KB
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Coat of arms of Sir Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, KG.png 1,158 × 1,158; 888 KB
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Heroica Eulogia HM 160 fol 11 Arms of Robert Dudley Earl of Leicester.jpg 2,441 × 3,527; 2.7 MB
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Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, Collection of Waddesdon Manor.jpg 2,742 × 3,496; 906 KB
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Somery (Baron Somery of Dudley Castle, Worcestershire) arms.svg 600 × 660; 65 KB