Name
Brydges
6 coats of arms in 2 sources
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.
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.
Coats of arms of the name
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Brydges Burke (General Armory)
Argent on a cross azure a lion's head of the field, in the dexter chief point a fir apple gules
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Brydges Burke (General Armory) · co. Kent
Argent a cross sable charged in the centre with a leopard's face between two pheons in pale the points towards each other and piercing the face or, in the first quarter a lion rampant gules holding in the paws a pheon the point downwards of the second
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Brydges Burke (General Armory) · co. Hereford
Argent a cross sable charged with a leopard's face or, a martlet for diff.; these arms are in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey and Wells Cathedral. At the College of Arms, however, is an ancient and different bearing assigned to BRIGGE, or BRIDGE, of Bosbury, viz., argent a bend engrailed sable charged at the dexter point with a chaplet or ; not adopted by the family generally
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Brydges, Jones-Brydges Burke (General Armory) · co. Radnor
Argent a chief gules, over all a bend engrailed sable charged on the chief point with a chaplet or
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Brydges, or Bruges Burke (General Armory) · co. Gloucester
Argent on a cross sable a leopard's face or
Attested in Papworth’s Ordinary (7) · see the citations →
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Brydges de Denton Rietstap
D'argent à la croix de sable, chargé en abîme d'une tête de léopard d'or.