Name

Bourchier

16 coats of arms in 4 sources

By source Burke (General Armory) 7 · Clemmensen (Ordinary of Medieval Armorials) 7 · Armorial de Gelre (reconst. Bunel) 1 · Grandmaison (Dictionnaire héraldique) 1

Attestations: what are they?

Some arms carry an “Attested: in Renesse’s dictionary…” or “in … Ordinary” note. It points to a reference work, separate from the armorial that gives the blazon, where this name appears with these arms. It is independent corroboration: two books that agree are worth more than one.

Papworth, Ordinary of British Armorials (1874) and Balfour Paul, An Ordinary of Arms (Scotland, 1893): sort arms by their design and name who bears them.

Medieval armorials (after Clemmensen): rolls of arms, painted or blazoned, from the 13th to the 16th century in which these arms appear.

Only sure matches are counted (same name in Renesse, a confirmed entry in Papworth). Each coat’s page lists every citation, with a link to the scanned printed page.

The parser reads these blazons the same way. Each source keeps its own text, shown here: a word the parser does not keep can tell them apart.

Read identically in 3 sources (3 coats of arms)

Jean Bourchier Armorial de Gelre (reconst. Bunel)
Bourchier Burke (General Armory) · Essex — Attested : in Papworth’s Ordinary (5)
Bourchier Grandmaison (Dictionnaire héraldique) · Bretagne

Armorial de Gelre (reconst. Bunel) D'argent, à la croix engrelée de gueules, cantonnée de quatre bouses de sable
Burke (General Armory) Argent a cross engrailed gules between four water bougets sable
Grandmaison (Dictionnaire héraldique) D'argent, à la croix engrêlée de gueules, cantonnée de quatre bouses de sable

Other coats of arms of the name

Bourchier Burke (General Armory)

Sable three leopards statant or
Bourchier Burke (General Armory) · Essex and London

Sable a chevron ermine between three leopards passant or

Attested in Papworth’s Ordinary (1) · see the citations →
Bourchier Burke (General Armory)

Argent on a cross engrailed gules between four ogresses a label azure fleury or

Attested in Papworth’s Ordinary (1) · see the citations →
Bourchier Burke (General Armory) · Essex

Sable three leopards passant in pale or, a crescent for diff

Attested in Papworth’s Ordinary (1) · see the citations →
Bourchier Burke (General Armory) · London

Sable a chevron ermine between three wolves or

Attested in Papworth’s Ordinary (1) · see the citations →
Bourchier Burke (General Armory) · co. Gloucester

Azure a chevron between three martlets or

Attested in Papworth’s Ordinary (1) · see the citations →
Bourchier Clemmensen (Ordinary of Medieval Armorials) · GB

generatedArgent, a cross engrailed Gules between four watering pots Sable, a label Azure

Attested in 1 medieval armorial · see the citations →
Bourchier Clemmensen (Ordinary of Medieval Armorials) · GB

generatedArgent, a cross engrailed Or

Attested in 1 medieval armorial · see the citations →

Under another name

Bouchier Clemmensen (Ordinary of Medieval Armorials) · GB

also named Bourchier

generatedArgent, a cross engrailed Gules between four watering pots Sable

Attested in 23 medieval armorials · see the citations →
Bouchier-Louvain Clemmensen (Ordinary of Medieval Armorials) · GB

also named Bourchier

Écartelé : aux 1 et 4 d'argent à la croix engrêlée de gueules accompagnée de quatre chantepleures de sable ; aux 2 et 3 de gueules billeté d'argent, à la fasce d'argent.

Attested in 10 medieval armorials · see the citations →
Bouchier-Stafford Clemmensen (Ordinary of Medieval Armorials) · GB

also named Bourchier

generatedQuarterly: 1st and 4th, Argent, a cross engrailed Gules between four watering pots Sable; 2nd and 3rd, Or, a chevron Gules

Attested in 7 medieval armorials · see the citations →
Bourchier : Woodville Clemmensen (Ordinary of Medieval Armorials) · GB

also named Bourchier

Attested in 1 medieval armorial · see the citations →
Bourchier-Louvain-Woodville Clemmensen (Ordinary of Medieval Armorials) · GB

also named Bourchier

generatedQuarterly: 1st and 4th, Argent, a cross engrailed Gules between four watering pots Sable; 2nd, Gules semé of billets Argent, a fess Argent; 3rd, Gules, a fess Argent, a canton Argent

Attested in 1 medieval armorial · see the citations →

Read identically in 3 sources (3 coats of arms)

Other coats of arms of the name

Under another name

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