File:PophamQuarterings 1607 WellingtonChurch Somerset.PNG

Summary

Heraldic escutcheon on monument in Wellington Church, Somerset, to Sir John Popham (1531-1607), Lord Chief Justice of England. Quarterings:

• 1: Argent, on a chief gules two stag's heads cabossed or (Popham)
• 2: Sable, three plates
• 3: Gules, a pair of wings in lure argent overall a bend azure (Seymour?)
• 4: Per pale azure and gules three lions rampant argent (Herbert)
• 5: Argent, a fess between three martlets sable a crescent of the last for difference (?)
• 6: Gules, on a bend argent three escallops sable (Knoell, Knolle, Knowles, etc., for Isabel Knolle daughter and heiress of Thomas Knolle and wife of John Popham (d.1536) of Huntworth, grandfather of Sir John Popham (d.1607), as shown on monument to Katherine Popham (d.1588), mother of Sir William Pole, in Colyton Church, Devon (Source:Skinner, A.J.P., Devon Notes & Queries, Vol.IX, Jan 1916-Oct 1917))
• 7: Sable, three fishes palewise tails uppermost argent (Unknown family, apparently a Knolle heiress)
• 8: Argent, a saltire gules between four eagles displayed azure (Hampden, an heiress of Knolle, as shown on monument to Katherine Popham (d.1588), mother of Sir William Pole, in Colyton Church, Devon (Source:Skinner, A.J.P., Devon Notes & Queries, Vol.IX, Jan 1916-Oct 1917))
• 9: Per pale argent and gules overall a bend azure (?)

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