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    Warbelton v. Gorges was one of the earliest heraldic law cases brought concerning English armory, in 1347. It concerned the coat of arms blazoned Lozengy...
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    Colonization in North America," even though Gorges himself never set foot in the New World. Ferdinando Gorges was born between 1565 and 1568, probably in...
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    nations, but within a nation they are not (see for England, Warbelton v Gorges and Scrope v Grosvenor). However, Wikipedia reports a different set of arms...
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    nations, but within a nation they are not (see for England, Warbelton v Gorges and Scrope v Grosvenor). However, Wikipedia reports a different set of arms...
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    Chivalry Courts of England and Wales Law of Arms Scrope v Grosvenor Time immemorial Warbelton v Gorges "A Brief Account of the Proceedings in the High Court...
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    of Arms Scrope v Grosvenor Warbelton v Gorges Maurice H. Keen, "English Military Experience and the Court of Chivalry: the Case of Grey v. Hastings", in...
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    Baron Gorges of Dundalk was a title in the Peerage of Ireland. It was created on 13 July 1620 for Sir Edward Gorges, 1st Baronet. He had already been...
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    member of the Grosvenor family. Court of Chivalry College of Arms Warbelton v Gorges Nicolas, Sir N. Harris (1832). The controversy between Sir Richard...
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    the earliest heraldic law cases brought concerning English armory, Warbelton v Gorges in 1347. Smithson to Percy (18th century). Sir Hugh Smithson, 4th...
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  • the most famous being the 1376 change in the French royal arms by Charles V of France to show three fleurs-de-lis instead of semee de lis, possibly to...
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    surname Gorges in compliance with a maternal inheritance. The matter is explained in the important 14th-century heraldic case of Warbelton v Gorges. By Winifred...
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    540–7. Gilbert, p.64 See for example the cases of Theobald Gorges, described in Warbelton v Gorges and Nicholas Carew of Haccombe Risdon, pp.150-1; Gilbert...
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    Arthur Gorges (c. 1569 – 10 October 1625) was an English sea captain, poet, translator and courtier from Somerset. He was the son of Sir William Gorges (d...
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    William Gorges (January 1605 – February 1658) was a soldier and the first colonial governor of the Province of Maine. Gorges was born in January 1605,...
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    in Dorset, a household knight of King John (1199–1216). Ralph Gorges, 2nd Baron Gorges (d.1330/1), who died without issue, was keen to see his family...
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    14th century, see for example the case of Theobald Gorges in the legal case of Warbelton v. Gorges (1347) Cambridgeshire County Record Office, Huntingdon...
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    of the Gorges. Yet there was a celebrated dispute in 1347 (see Warbelton v. Gorges) when these lozengy arms were claimed by John de Warbelton against...
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    Armorials of Warblington: Lozengy or and azure. These arms were the subject of a famous legal dispute in 1347 with Theobald Gorges, see Warbelton v. Gorges...
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    actress Courteney Cox. Eleanor was also the grandmother of Sir Ferdinando Gorges, founder of the American province of Maine, whose mother was Cicely Lygon...
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    ISBN 1-4021-9777-2. Burke, John (1831). A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland. Oxford University. p. 129. v t e...
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  • most famous heraldic law cases brought concerning English armory, Warbelton v Gorges in 1347. The final sentence in Latin Omnis Caro Foenum, is from Isiah...
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    of the Gorges. Yet there was a celebrated dispute in 1347 (see Warbelton v. Gorges) when these lozengy arms were claimed by John de Warbelton against...
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