English: Portrait of Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby, K.G. (1531-1593) wearing the Greater George of the Order of the Garter. Coat of arms of
w:Henry Stanley, 4th Earl of Derby (1531–1593), who in 1555 married Lady Margaret Clifford, the only surviving child and sole heiress of Henry Clifford, 2nd Earl of Cumberland, by his wife Lady Eleanor Brandon, the third child and second daughter and co-heiress of Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, by his wife Princess Mary Tudor, Dowager Queen consort of France, the fifth child of King Henry VII. Drawing by William Dugdale (1605-1686) of sculpted arms on the north wall of the Derby Chapel in the Church of St Peter and St Paul, Ormskirk, Lancashire.
Heraldry
Quarterly of 8, overall an inescutcheon of pretence quarterly of 4:
- 1&4: Chequy or and azure, a fess gules (Clifford)
- 2&3: Barry of ten argent and gules, a lion rampant or ducally crowned of the second (Brandon)
Main shield, quarterly of 8:
- 1: Stanley
- 2: Lathom
- 3: Isle of Man
- 4: de Warenne, Earl of Surrey
- 5: Gules, two lions passant guardant argent (Strange of Knokyn, Shropshire))
- 6: Argent, a fess and canton gules (Woodvile)
- 7: Or, a cross engrailed sable (Mohun, Feudal Baron of Dunster, Somerset)
- 8: Azure, a lion rampant argent (Montalt)
The sculpted shield is encircled by the ribbon, motto, and mantle of the Garter. Supporters : " Dexter, a griffin; sinister, a buck, both Or, ducally collared and chained Azure, the buck attired of the last." Motto : " Sans changer." On an Earl's vizor (none of these adjuncts are shown on the drawing), an Earl's coronet, and the Crest, " On a chapeau Gules, turned up Ermine, an eagle, wings endorsed Or, feeding on an infant in its nest proper, swaddled Azure, banded of the third," (Source:THE HERALDRY OF ORMSKIRK CHURCH, by James Bromley, J.P., Read 15th February 1906, p.85
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