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Arms of Denys of Siston, Gloucestershire and Waterton, Glamorgan: Gules, three leopard's faces or jessant-de-lys azure over all a bend engrailed of the last

Arms of Denys family of Siston and Dyrham in Gloucestershire, as drawn by Thomas Dineley in "The account of the official Progress of his Grace Henry the first Duke of Beaufort through Wales in 1684", p.38. Text:

This is an ancient coat armor of that family called Dennis to be seen not onely in this cathedrall (i.e. Worcester) but of that of Hereford, Durham (sic, should be Dyrham Church) and Auste (sic, should be Aust Church, Gloucestershire, a manor held by the Denys family). It is blason'd "the field gules, three leopard's heads or jessant flowers-de-lis azure over all a bend engrailed of the third". This is seen also in divers other churches (i.e. including Olveston & Pucklechurch in Gloucestershire). And some of later years have altered the flower-de-luces into "or" wherein the bearers are much injured in rejecting the ancient form which is both warranted by antique monuments and no way discomendable sith (i.e. since) it is born in the naturall colour. This hath the leopard's heads not unlike those in ye coat of the See of Hereford w(hi)ch see page (page number not given), onely that those leopards heads are born reversed.
Arms of Cantilupe of Candleston Castle, Glamorgan: Gules, three leopard's faces jessant-de-lys or, as quartered by William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke (d.1570), descended from that family
Arms of Thomas de Cantilupe (d.1282), Bishop of Hereford: Gules, three leopard's faces jessant-de-lys reversed or (later adopted as the arms of the See of Hereford)
Dineley's knowledge of and interest in the Denys arms is detailed and impressive. Possibly the Duke of Beaufort on his travels into his new territory (having been appointed Lord President of Wales of the Council of Wales and the Marches in April 1672) was interested in heraldry which Dineley records in such detail in his written report. The Denys family, originally of Waterton in Glamorgan, Wales (but with ancient 13th.c. roots in Gloucestershire (see entry in in "Golden Grove Book of Welsh Pedigrees"), later (c.1400, see w:Gilbert Denys) of Siston in Gloucestershire, is believed (purely on the basis of its arms) to have been a feudal follower of the de Cantilupe family, one branch of which was seated at Candleston Castle (i.e. "Cantilupe's-ton") in Glamorgan, near Waterton. Thus the Denys family appears to have been granted by their supposed feudal overlord a differenced version (brutally differenced / debruised by "a bend overall") of the new arms of Cantilupe, pioneering the jessant-de-lys form, seemingly first used by Saint Thomas de Cantilupe (d.1282), Bishop of Hereford, which subsequently became the arms of the See of Hereford. Other Cantilupe followers or tenants were also granted similar heraldic differences of the jessant-de-lys arms, for example the families of Huband and Woodforde. By 1684 the senior Siston and Dyrham branch of the Denys family had fallen into obscurity in the male line (having lost their fortune due to excessive property speculation during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (see Sir w:Maurice Denys)), but a junior branch survived as lords of the manor of Pucklechurch (next to Dyrham) until the early 18th century when it died out in the male line. It seems that Dineley was referring to the Pucklechurch branch when he stated "some of later years have altered the flower-de-luces into "or", and two 17th/18th century mural monuments to the family survive in Pucklechurch Church, both showing the Denys arms sculpted in relief, but without tinctures, and also "tidied-up" with the leopard's faces arranged so as not to be debruised by the bend, the correct ancient form. The arms of Tennison and Tennyson, signifying "son of Denys", also show this tidied-up form, although it is not known what descent if any those families had from Denys of Waterton, whose pedigree is clearly set out in the Heraldic Visitations of Gloucestershire.
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Source Thomas Dineley, "The account of the official Progress of his Grace Henry the first Duke of Beaufort through Wales in 1684", p.38.
Author Thomas Dineley
 
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