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The landed gentry and nobility of Devonshire, like the rest of the English and European gentry, bore heraldic arms from the start of the age of heraldry ''circa'' 1200-1215. The fashion for the display of heraldry ceased about the end of the Victorian era (1901) by which time most of the ancient armigerous families of Devonshire had died out, moved away or parted with their landed estates. In 2015 a very few ancient families remain in the county represented by direct male descendants, most notably Courtenay of Powderham, Fulford of Fulford, Kelly of Kelly, Cruwys of Cruwys Morchard, Clifford of Chudleigh, Acland of Killerton and Broadclyst, Wrey of Tawstock, etc. A few ancient Devon estates are still owned by descendants via female lines, for example Castle Hill, Filleigh, Molland, Incledon, Braunton, Hall, Bishop's Tawton, Newnham Park, etc. In most cases the laws of English heraldry preclude the transmission of paternal armorials via a female heiress (other than in the form of quartering), thus most of these inheritors via female lines, generally deriving from the same pool of high-status English armigerous families, bring their own paternal heraldry, possibly previously foreign to Devon, to the estates inherited. For example, the Irish arms of Gore (Earl of Arran) are now associated with Castle Hill, Filleigh, until 1958 the seat of the last male representative of the Fortescue family which originated in Devon in the 12th century. In a few cases however, male heirs via female lines have been required by the legator to seek royal licence to adopt his own arms and surname, otherwise destined to disappearance, in lieu of the legatees own. This was the case with the families most notably of Rolle, Basset, Stucley, Walrond, etc. The standard sources for students of the heraldry of Devon are as follows: ==Documents== *Heraldic Visitations of Devon: Vivian, Lt.Col. J.L., (Ed.) The Visitation of the County of Devon: Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564 & 1620, Exeter, 1895. *Pole, Sir William (d.1635), Collections Towards a Description of the County of Devon, Sir John-William de la Pole (ed.), London, 1791: * *"The Armes of such nobles and gentlemen which have anciently dwelled & had lands in Devonshire", pp.444-467; * *"An alphabet of the armes of the gentlemen of Devonshire as well of those being as of those which have bine", pp.467-510; *The Notebook of Tristram Risdon (d.1640)() *Lysons, Samuel and Lysons, Daniel, (Magna Britannia, Volume 6: ''Devonshire'', London, 1822 ): * *Ancient Families, of which the principal Branch is extinct, or removed, since 1620, yet some of the Descendants remain in the County. * *Families known, or supposed, to be extinct since 1620, or removed out of the County. *Prince, John, (1643–1723) The Worthies of Devon, 1810 edition, plates I-V, "Arms" (monochrome depictions of 145 shields) *Baring-Gould, Sabine & Twigge, Robert, ''An Armory of the Western Counties (Devon and Cornwall): From the Unpublished Manuscripts of the XVI Century'', published by J.G. Commin, 1898() 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Devon heraldry」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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