Coat of arms of one of the Howard Earls of Suffolk, of 22 quarters, circumscribed by the Garter. With a crescent sable for difference of a second son, overall on shield, on supporters and crest (for Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk, KG (1561–1626), the second son of Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk). Thus for one of the following three Earls who were Knights of the Garter:

• Thomas Howard, 1st Earl of Suffolk, KG (1561–1626), the second son of Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, by his second wife Margaret Audley, the daughter and heiress of Thomas Audley, 1st Baron Audley of Walden, of Audley End House in Essex.
• Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, KG (1584–1640), eldest son and heir of the 1st Earl, by his second wife Katherine Knyvet, eldest daughter and co-heiress of Sir Henry Knyvet of Charlton Park, near Malmesbury, Wiltshire.
• Henry Howard, 12th Earl of Suffolk, 5th Earl of Berkshire, KG (1739–1779), of Charlton Park.

Heraldry

Quarterly of 22, as follows:

• 1: Gules, a bend between six cross-crosslets fitchy argent (Howard, arms of Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk; should be augmented arms of Howard (with Flodden Augmentation, granted to the 2nd Duke): Gules, on a bend between six cross-crosslets fitchy argent an escutcheon or charged with a demi-lion rampant pierced through the mouth by an arrow within a double tressure flory counterflory of the first)
• 2: Azure, three cinquefoils argent (Fitton) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.353; Joseph Foster, Some Feudal Coats of Arms, London, 1902, pp.114-15[1]). Sir William Howard (by 1225-1308) of East Winch and Wiggenhall in Norfolk, a Justice of the Court of Common Pleas and the founder and earliest known male-line ancestor of the House of Howard (Dukes of Norfolk), married secondly Alice Fitton, the daughter and heiress of Sir Edmund Fitton of Fitton Hall in the parish of Wiggenhall, Norfolk, which manor he inherited by the marriage. He had no issue by the marriage.
• 3: Ermine, a cross sable (Boys) (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.111 "Boys of Suffolk"; Joseph Foster, Some Feudal Coats of Arms, London, 1902, pp.114-15[2]). Sir John Howard (died 1364) (great-great-grandfather of w:John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk), Admiral of the Northern Fleet, married Alice de Boys, the daughter and heiress of Sir Robert de Boys, of Fersfield in Norfolk.
• 4: Gules, six escallops argent 3,2,1 (Scales). Sir John Howard (c. 1366-1437), of Wiggenhall and East Winch in Norfolk (the grandfather of w:John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk), was the son and heir of Sir Robert Howard (died 1389), of Wiggenhall and East Winch, by his wife Margaret Scales (died 1416), daughter of w:Robert de Scales, 3rd Baron Scales, by his wife Katherine d'Ufford, a daughter of w:Robert d'Ufford, 1st Earl of Suffolk and a sister and co-heiress of w:William de Ufford, 2nd Earl of Suffolk.
• 5: Azure, a fess between two chevrons argent (Tendering/Tendring). Sir John Howard III (d.1436) married secondly Alice Tendring, daughter and heiress of Sir William Tendring of Tendring Hall in the parish of Stoke-by-Nayland in Suffolk (grandparents of w:John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk (c.1425-1485)).
• 6: Gules, a lion rampant argent (Mowbray) (w:John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk (c.1425-1485) was the son of Sir Robert Howard (1398–1436) of Stoke by Nayland, Suffolk, by his wife Margaret de Mowbray (1391–1459), eldest daughter and heiress of Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk (1366–1399), by his wife Elizabeth FitzAlan (1366–1425).
• 7: Azure semée of crosses-crosslet or, a lion rampant double-queued of the second (de Braose). w:John de Mowbray, 3rd Baron Mowbray (1310-1361) was the only son of John de Mowbray, 2nd Baron Mowbray, by his first wife Aline de Braose, a daughter and co-heiress of w:William de Braose, 2nd Baron Braose.
• 8: Per pale or and vert, a lion rampant gules (Arms of w:Roger Bigod, 5th Earl of Norfolk (d.1306))
• 9: Sable, a lion rampant argent crowned armed and langued or (Segrave (John Segrave, 4th Baron Segrave)). Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk (1366-1399) was the son of John de Mowbray, 4th Baron Mowbray and his wife Elizabeth Segrave, the daughter and heiress of John Segrave, 4th Baron Segrave by his wife Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk, daughter and heiress of Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, the fifth son of King Edward I.
• 10: Royal arms of King Edward I (Plantagenet), a label of three points argent for difference (Arms of Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk)
• 11: Gules, a lion rampant or (FitzAlan modern (arms of d'Aubigny, Earl of Arundel));
• 12: Barry of eight or and gules (FitzAlan ancient/FitzAlan of Bedale) (per: Willement, Thomas, An Account of the Restorations of the Collegiate Chapel of St. George, Appendix, pp.40-1, re Garter Stall Plate of "Sir William FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel" [3]). Identical to arms of Poyntz.
• 13: Argent semée of crosses-crosslet fitchée gules, a lion rampant double-queued of the second (?)
• 14: Azure, a wolf's head erased argent (Attributed arms of Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester)
• 15: Azure, three garbs or (arms of Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester). w:William d'Aubigny, 3rd Earl of Arundel (c. 1174–1221) married Mabel of Chester (born c. 1173), the second daughter of Hugh de Kevelioc, 5th Earl of Chester (1147-1181) (aliter "Hugh le Meschin") and in her issue one of the four co-heiresses of her brother w:Ranulf de Blondeville, 6th Earl of Chester (1170–1232). One of the daughters of William d'Aubigny, 3rd Earl of Arundel was w:Isabel d'Aubigny who married John Fitzalan (1200-1240), of Oswestry and Clun Castle in Shropshire, and thereby became the mother of John Fitzalan (1223–1267), de jure Earl of Arundel (GEC Peerage, Vol.I, p.239).
• 16: Argent, a fesse and a canton conjoined gules (Woodville) (Thomas Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel, 7th Baron Maltravers (1450-1524) married Margaret Woodville (d.1492), the seventh daughter of Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers, and a younger sister of Elizabeth Woodville, wife of King Edward IV; presumably she was deemed an heiress, as the arms were quartered)
• 17: Sable, a fret or (Maltravers) (w:John Fitzalan, 1st Baron Arundel (c.1348-1379), Marshall of England, married Eleanor Maltravers, a daughter (and presumably heiress) of w:f John Maltravers, 1st Baron Maltravers)
• 18: Argent, a chief azure (Clun/FitzAlan of Clun Castle, Shropshire, as borne by w:William FitzAlan, 1st Lord of Oswestry and Clun (d.1210)) (per: Willement, Thomas, An Account of the Restorations of the Collegiate Chapel of St. George, Appendix, pp.40-1, re Garter Stall Plate of "Sir William FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel"[4])
• 19 Chequy or and azure (de Warenne, Earl of Surrey)
• 20: Argent, a chevron between three griffin's heads erased gules (Tilney) a mullet or for difference (Burke, Sir Bernard, The General Armory, London, 1884, p.1015; Joseph Foster, Some Feudal Coats of Arms, London, 1902, pp.114-15[5]). w:Elizabeth Tilney, Countess of Surrey (c.1445-1497), was the only child and heiress of Sir w:Frederick Tilney (d.1445) of Ashwell Thorpe Hall in Norfolk and of Boston, Lincolnshire, and was the first wife of w:Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk (when still Earl of Surrey). Her stained glass portrait survives in Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford, Suffolk, in which however she displays her paternal arms with different tinctures as Azure, a chevron between three griffin's heads erased or (File:Duchess of Norfolk and Countess of Surrey.jpg).
• 21: Quarterly or and gules, a bordure sable bezantée (Rochford) (Joseph Foster, Some Feudal Coats of Arms, London, 1902, pp.114-15[6]). Sir Frederick Tilney of Boston, Lincolnshire, married Margery Rochford (d.post 1399), daughter (and heiress) of Sir John Rochford of Boston. Their third son was Sir Philip Tilney (d.1394), of Boston, MP for Lincolnshire, an official of the Duchy of Lancaster in which capacity he was connected with Sir William Thorpe, MP, a courtier of King Edward III. (Source: Biography of "Tilney, Sir Philip (d.1394), of Boston, Lincs.", published in History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421, ed. J.S. Roskell, L. Clark, C. Rawcliffe., 1993 [7]
• 22: Azure, three crescents argent (Thorpe of Ashwell Thorpe Hall in Norfolk, an heiress of Tilney) (Source: Joseph Foster, Some Feudal Coats of Arms, London, 1902, pp.114-15 "Thorpe", but with field gules [8]). Philip Tilney, Esq. (d.1453) of Boston (heraldic ledger stone in Lincoln Cathedral) (grandson of Sir Philip Tilney (d.1394), of Boston, MP) married Isabel Thorpe (d.1436) (heraldic brass formerly in the Thorpe Chapel of St Botolph's Church, Boston ("Restoration" by Gilbert Scott in 1845 - possibly destroyed) (founded in 1309 by Dame Margaret Tilney "who layid the first stone of the goodly steple of the Paroche Church of Boston", whose alabaster effigy survives there File:Dame Margaret Tilney - geograph.org.uk - 995276.jpg)), a daughter and co-heiress of Sir Edmund Thorpe of Ashwell Thorpe, Norfolk, by his wife Joan, Baroness Scales ("aunt to Thomas Lord Scales"). The grand-daughter of Philip Tilney and Isabel Thorpe was w:Elizabeth Tilney, Countess of Surrey (c.1445-1497), the wife of Thomas Howard, 2nd Duke of Norfolk. (Source: Francis Blomefield, 'Hundred of Depwade: Thorp', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 5 (London, 1806), pp. 142-163 [9])