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)
wing charged with a crosscrosslet fitchee gu. Motto—Mutare veltimere Sperno. Estates—In Wiltshire, inherited from hisfather in 1814, also in Somerset and Middle-sex. Residence—The Hill, Freshford. BROME, OF SALOP, HERTS AND KENT. BROME, CHARLES-JOHN-BYTHESEA, esq. of West Mailing, Kent, b.… … The very ancient and eminent family ofBrome lineally derives from the Earls ofAnjou, who took the surname of Brome orBroome, after their pilgrimage to the holy land ; Fulk, Earl of Anjou, having worn asprig of the Broome plant, as the symbol ofhumility. Fulk was father of GeoffreyPlantagenet, who…
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