A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours (1836)
nveyed the earldom of Richmondto her husband, Peter de Dreux, the subsequentearls carried the Drfux arms, chequy, or andaz. the ermine being borne in canton. The bordure in the Richmond shield indicatescadency, the earls being a younger branch of thehouse of Britanny, and was omitted after… … arms of (Cratofurlr. by the Crawfurds, coupled with other cor-roborative circumstances, have thrown newlight upon the subject, and leav^ hardly adoubt that those old Earls of Richmond,and this ancient and widely dispersed Cale-donian family sprang from a common pro-genitor. The original coat of the…
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