Name
Cayley
5 coats of arms in 4 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.
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 2 sources (2 coats of arms)
- Cayley Burke (General Armory) · co. York — Attested : in Papworth’s Ordinary (2)
- Cayley Fox-Davies (Armorial Families) · GB — Attested : in Papworth’s Ordinary (2)
- Burke (General Armory) Quarterly, argent and sable a bend gules charged with three mullets of the first
- Fox-Davies (Armorial Families) Quarterly, argent and sable, a bend gules, charged with three mullets of the first.
Other coats of arms of the name
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Cayley, or Cayly Burke (General Armory) · Norfolk
Chequy or and gules a bend (or a fesse) ermine (another, or)
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Cayley de Brompton Rietstap
d'argent et de sable; à la bande de gueules, brochant sur le tout et chargé de trois étoiles d'argent
Under another name
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Cailli Clemmensen (Ordinary of Medieval Armorials) · GB
also named Cayley
generatedChequy Or and Gules, over all an escutcheon Ermine
Attested in 2 medieval armorials · see the citations →