Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts

Descents of the houses of Warwick and Essex
England, 16th century
MS M.956 fol. 5r

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Two documents, one with two hanging circular seals:
1) Reginald FitzPiers, wearing armor and helmet, holding raised sword in right hand and shield in left hand, sits astride horse, all enclosed in frame inscribed SIGILLVM REGINALDI FILII PETRI FILII HARBERTI (equestrian seal).
2) Escutcheon with FitzPiers arms, enclosed in frame inscribed SIGILLVM REGINALDI FILII PETRI FILII HARBERTI.
Along branches of trees interspersed with leaves are roundels inscribed with names and seventeen escutcheons:
1) FitzPiers (gules three lions rampant or).
2) FitzPiers (gules three lions rampant or).
3) Mandeville of Essex (quarterly or and gules an escarbuncle sable).
4) Mandeville of Essex (quarterly or and gules an escarbuncle sable), impaled with Vere of Oxford (quarterly or and gules in the first quarter a mullet argent), surmounted by a crown.
5) Beauchamp of Bedford (paly of six gules and azure a chief or), impaled with Vere of Oxford (quarterly or and gules in the first quarter a mullet argent).
6) Essex (quarterly or and gules, a bend gules) impaled with Vere of Oxford (quarterly or and gules in the first quarter a mullet argent).
7) FitzMatthew (per pale azure and gules three lions rampant or).
8) FitzPiers (gules three lions rampant or).
9) Essex (quarterly or and gules), impaled with Mandeville of Essex (quarterly or and gules an escarbuncle sable).
10) Mandeville of Essex (quarterly or and gules an escarbuncle sable), impaled with Aumale (gules a cross flory azure), surmounted by a crown.
11) Blank escutcheon impaled with Aumale (gules a cross flory azure), surmounted by a crown.
12) FitzPiers (gules three lions rampant or), impaled with Mandeville of Essex (quarterly or and gules an escarbuncle sable), surmounted by a crown.
13) England (gules three lions passant gardant in pale or), impaled with unidentified arms (gules a lion passant gardant or; here associated with Isabelle of Gloucester, first wife of King John), surmounted by a crown.
14) Mandeville of Essex (quarterly or and gules an escarbuncle sable), impaled with unidentified arms (gules a lion passant gardant or; here associated with Isabelle of Gloucester, first wife of King John), surmounted by a crown.
15) Bohun of Hereford and Essex (azure a bend argent between two cotises and six lions rampant or), impaled with FitzPiers (gules three lions rampant or), surmounted by a crown.
16) Mandeville of Essex (quarterly or and gules an escarbuncle sable), surmounted by a crown.
17) FitzGeoffrey and FitzJohn (quarterly or and gules overall a bordure vair), impaled with FitzPiers (gules three lions rampant or).