Identifier: transactionsofhi446hist (find matches)
Title: Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire for the year ..
Year: 1855 (1850s)
Authors: Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire
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Publisher: Liverpool : Printed for the Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
Digitizing Sponsor: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center

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s kinsfolk presumedto rival the Nevills, whose power at that time almost or quiteovershadowed the Plantagenets; this rivalry brought poor LordRivers to the block, and left Jacquetta a widow for the secondtime. Genealogists, interested in Lancashire families, may wellbe grateful to Sir Richard for aspiring to the hand of Jacquettaof Luxemburg, for the shield that she (being her fathers heir)passed on to her children, consisted of twelve illustrious quarter-ings, which now find a place in the achievements of four^ famiUes closely connected with this county, viz.,—\j^^ I. Grey, Earl of Stamford (and, until 1882, of Warrington);J \^^ 2. Egerton, Earl of EUesmere; ;. , 3. Woodcock, of Newburgh and Wigan ; 4. Stanley, Earl of Derby.Of these four families, the first is not resident within the county,but holds land in it, and may therefore be reckoned as a Lanca-shire family for the purposes of tliis paper; the second has beenidentified for some generations with the development of the y ^ I
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^K€ fW€IiV€ QVSRMRIIie^ 1. LUXEMBURG. 2. CHATILLON. 3. BRIENNE. 4. SICILY. 5. LUSIGNAN. 6. CHAMPAGNE. 7. JERUSALEM. 8. KOMNENOS. 9. DE LA ROCHE 10. DE BAUX. 11. ORSINI. 12. LUXEMBURG. ^•- Foreign Quarterings in Lancashire Shields. 3 industries of the county : the third is a cadet branch of theWoodcocks, of Cuerden Green, in the parish of Leyland, whoseland passed in the direct male line from the reign of Henry III.to the end of the last century, when an heiress transmitted it tothe Winstanleys (now of Chaigeley Manor, near Clitheroe), bywhom it was sold : of the fourth, the Stanleys, it is as needlessto give any further description, as it was unnecessary for Mosesto define the fourth branch of the River of Paradise, any morethan by stating its well-known name. Jacquettas twelve quarterings are these :— 1. Luxemburg (Counts of S. Pol).—Argent, a lion rampant with the tail nowed Gules, armed and crowned Or,langued Azure, a label of three points of the last. 2. Chatillon (Cou

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