Name
Orpen
3 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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Orpen Burke (General Armory) · co. Kerry
Per pale azure and or, a lion rampant counterchanged
Attested in Papworth’s Ordinary (2) · see the citations →
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Orpen Burke (General Armory) · co. Kerry
Quarterly, 1st and 4th, per pale azure and or, a lion rampant counterchanged, in the dexter chief point a cross
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Orpen of Ardtully Fox-Davies (Armorial Families) · Ireland
Quarterly, 1 and 4, per pale azure and or, a lion rampant counterchanged, in the dexter chief point a cross crosslet of the second (Orpen) ; 2 and 3, ermine, a fesse azure, between three wolves’ heads erased sable (Millerd).