Name
Witham
8 coats of arms in 3 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.
Coats of arms of the name
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Witham Burke (General Armory)
Sable a fess between three cinquefoils or
Attested in Papworth’s Ordinary (1) · see the citations →
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Witham Burke (General Armory) · co. Lincoln
Sable two roses in chief argent in base a crescent or
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Witham Burke (General Armory)
Argent two roses gules in base a crescent of the second
Attested in Papworth’s Ordinary (1) · see the citations →
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Witham Burke (General Armory) · co. York
Or, a bend gules
Attested in Papworth’s Ordinary (2) · see the citations →
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Witham Burke (General Armory)
Sable an inescutcheon between three mullets argent
Attested in Papworth’s Ordinary (1) · see the citations →
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Witham Burke (General Armory) · co. York
Or, a bendlet gules between three eaglets sable
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Witham Fox-Davies (Armorial Families)
Quarterly, 1 and 14, or, a bendlet gules between three eaglets close sable (Witham) ; 2, per fesse argent and gules (Wawton) ; 3. argent, on a fesse gules, between three popinjays vert, collared and membered of the second, as many escallops (Thweng); 4. argent, a cheyron gules between three popinjays vert (Cliffe); 5 argent, a chevron sable between three cross crosslets gules (Wycliffe) ; 6. argent, on a chevron sable, three stags’ heads caboshed of the field (Ellerton); 7. azure, three bars gemelle and a chief or, a canton gules for difference (Mesnill),; 8. argent, on a fesse engrailed sable, three quatrefoils or (Catterick) ; 9. chequy argent and sable, a bordure gules. (Catterick): ro, argent, a bend between six martlets sable, a crescent for difference (Tempest); 112. quarterly, argent and gules, in the first quarter a mullet sable (Massey); 12. argent, on a bend sable, three covered cups of the field (Rixton); 13. argent, a squirrel sejant gules, cracking a nut proper (Horton).
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Witham Rietstap · Bordeaux; Gironde +1
generatedArgent, a fess Sable between three cinquefoils of the same
Attested in Renesse’s dictionary (1 mention) · see the citations →