Name
Sykes
16 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.
Renesse, Dictionnaire des figures héraldiques (1894–1903): files families by charge (lion, cross…); it cites the family under the charges of its arms.
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.
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 (3 coats of arms)
- Sykes Burke (General Armory) · co. York — Attested : in Papworth’s Ordinary (1)
- Sykes Burke (General Armory) · co. York — Attested : in Papworth’s Ordinary (1)
- Sykes Fox-Davies (Armorial Families) · GB
- Burke (General Armory) Argent a chevron sable between three fountains
- Burke (General Armory) Argent a chevron sable between three fountains
- Fox-Davies (Armorial Families) Argent, on a chevron sable, guttéed'eau, between three tufts of grass vert, as many fountains proper.
Read identically in 2 sources (2 coats of arms)
- Sykes Burke (General Armory) · co. York
- Sykes of Sledmere Fox-Davies (Armorial Families) · GB
- Burke (General Armory) Argent a chevron sable between three sykes or fountains
- Fox-Davies (Armorial Families) Argent, a chevron sable» between three sykes or fountains. proper.
Other coats of arms of the name
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Sykes Burke (General Armory) · co. York
Argent on a chevron nebuly gules between three fountains as many eagles rising proper
Attested in Balfour Paul’s Ordinary (1) · see the citations →
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Sykes Burke (General Armory) · co. Berks
Argent an eagle rising between three sykes (syke is Anglo-Saxon for rivulet) or fountains, on a canton gules a caduceus of the first
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James Nield Sykes Fox-Davies (Armorial Families)
Argent, three chevronels sable between two fountains in chiet proper, and a buglehorn stringed in base of the second, for distinction, in the honour point a fleur-de-lis azure.
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Sykes Fox-Davies (Armorial Families) · GB
Ermine, two chevronels gules, between in chief two fountains proper, and in base a horse’s head erased sable.
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Sykes Fox-Davies (Armorial Families) · GB
Argent, three chevronels sable between two fountains in chief proper and a buglehorn stringed in base of the second.
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Sykes of Basildon, Berks Fox-Davies (Armorial Families) · GB
Argent, an eagle rising between three sykes or fountains proper, on a canton gules, a caduceus or, wings of the first.
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Sykes of Kingsknowes Fox-Davies (Armorial Families) · GB
Per chevron gules and sable, in chief two sykes (fountains) proper, and in base a fleece or.
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Sykes de Basildon Rietstap
De gueules à trois touffes de roseaux de sinople
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Sykes de Basildon Rietstap
D'argent à une aigle de profil au naturel, le vol ouvert et abaissé, accompagné de trois tourteaux-besants fascés-ondés d'argent et d'azur; au canton de gueules, chargé d'un caducée d'argent
Attested in Renesse’s dictionary (1 mention) · see the citations →
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Sykes de Sledmere Rietstap
D'argent au chevron de sable, accompagné de trois tourteaux-besants fascés-ondés d'argent et d'azur.
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SYKES Rolland
D'argent, à trois chevrons de sable surmontés d'une fleur de lis d'azur, accompagnés en chef de deux besants fascés, ondés d'argent et d'azur, et en pointe d'un cor de chasse de sable lié du même