Name
Critchley
2 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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Critchley, and Critchlow Burke (General Armory)
Quarterly, gules and argent in the second and third quarter a martlet sable
Attested in Papworth’s Ordinary (2) · see the citations →
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Critchley of Warrenfield, Herts Fox-Davies (Armorial Families) · GB
Quarterly, gules and argent, in the first and fourth quarters a fleur-de-lys of the second, and in the second and third a martlet sable.