File:Arms Sir William Chamberlayne (died 1462) Misericord EastHarling Church.png

Coat of arms of Sir William Chamberlayne (died 1462), Knight of the Garter, detail from a misericord, circa 1480, on the south side of the chancel of East Harling Church, Norfolk. He was the first husband of Anne Harling (c.1426-1498), heiress of East Harling, the only child and sole heiress of Sir Robert Harling (d.1435) lord of the manor of East Harling, by his wife Jane Gonville, the daughter and heiress of John Gonville by his wife Elizabeth Jernegan. John Gonville's great-grandfather Sir Nicholas Gonville was a brother and the principal heir of w:Edmund Gonville, (died 1351) who founded Gonville Hall in Cambridge and Rushworth College (of priests) near East Harling. (See pedigree of Gonville in Suckling's History and Antiquities of the County of Suffolk, Vol.1, 1846, p.314[1]). The stained glass effigy of Sir William Chamberlayne survives in the East Window of East Harling Church, re-glazed and enlarged at the expense of Anne Harling. His Easter Sepulchre style monument survives in East Harling Church. Anne Harling's paternal grandmother was Cecily Mortimer (d.1419), a daughter and co-heiress of Sir Thomas Mortimer of Attleborough, Norfolk. (Source: The Manors of Suffolk: The hundreds of Babergh and Blackbourn By Walter Arthur Copinger, re Knettishall Manor[2]).

3 shields, left to right:

• Hanging from a guige strap: Or semée of fleurs-de-lis sable (Mortimer of Attleborough, Norfolk) (Or, six fleurs-de-lis azure (Burke, 1884, p.709, with variants) (Or semée of fleures-de-lis sable per Francis Blomefield, 'Hundred of Shropham: Atleburgh', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 1 (London, 1805), pp. 501-541 [3]), an heiress of Harling, as quartered on monument in St Mary's Church, Brome, Suffolk, of Sir Thomas Cornwallis (1518/19 – 1604), see imageFile:St Mary's Church Brome Suffolk (237917016).jpg.
• Gules, a chevron between three escallops or with a label of three points argent for difference (in first quarter only) (Chamberlayne) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.181, but with a fess not a chevron; "Chamberlayne, descended from the Comtes de Tankerville, founded in England by John de Tankerville, Chamberlain to King Henry I, who assumed his surname from his office") quartering Argent, a saltire engrailed azure (Tolthorpe ? / Legat  ?) (as seen on his Garter stall plate in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle) all impaling: Quarterly of 4:
  • 1&4: Argent, a unicorn salient sable armed and unguled or (Herling) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.457, "Harling of Suffolk", variants), as seen sculpted (without tinctures) on monument of Sir Robert Herling (d.1435) in East Harling Church;
  • 2&3: Two demi-fleurs-de-lis in fess issuant from dexter and sinister with two further fleurs-de-lis one in chief and one in base. Possibly intended as Or semée of fleures-de-lis sable for Mortimer of Attleborough, Norfolk
  • Overall an inescutcheon of pretence of Argent, on a chevron between two couple closes indented sable three escallops or (Gonville) (Burke, 1884, p.408, arms of w:Edmund Gonville (died 1351), Rector of Terrington and Rushworth, Norfolk, founder of Gonville College, Cambridge) (Same arrangement of Herling quartering Mortimer with inescutcheon of Gonville seen in Castor Church in 1664, as reported in Mostyn John Armstrong, History and Antiquities of the County of Norfolk, p.31[4])
• Hanging from a guige strap: Argent, a saltire engrailed azure (Tolthorpe ? / Legat  ?), an heiress of Chamberlayne.