IHGS Heraldic Challenge October - The Answers
The family names and specific properties associated with each of the ‘mystery' coats of arms, are as follows:
BOURCHIER - Beningbrough Hall
HOBART - Blickling Hall
DRAKE - Buckland Abbey
LUCY - Charlecote Park
ONSLOW - Clandon Park
VERNON - Hanbury Hall
CURSON - Kedleston Hall
PHELIPS - Montacute House
ST AUBYN - St Michael's Mount
HERBERT - Powis Castle
The common status of the properties is that they are all in the care of the National Trust.
Finally, this month’s winner is….Rachel Cartwright, one of many entrants to get the right answer.
The original clues are given are below:
Identify the principal family associated with each of the coats blazoned below then, using the county name provided, pinpoint a property with which a branch of each family was connected historically. Finally, identify the common status of these properties.
1. Arg. a cross engr. gu. betw. four bougets sa. - Yorkshire
2. Sa. an eight-pointed estoile or. betw. two flaunches erm. - Norfolk
3. Sa. a fess wavy betw. two polar stars arg. - Devon
4. Gu. semy of crosses crosslet three lucies hauriant arg. - Warwickshire
5. Arg. a fess gu. betw. six Cornish choughs ppr. - Surrey
6. Or on a fess az. three garbs of the first in chief a cross crosslet fitchy gu. - Worcestershire
7. Arg. on a bend sa. three popinjays or beaked and legged gu. - Derbyshire
8. Arg. a chev. gu. betw. three roses of the last seeded or. leaved vert. - Somerset
9. Erm on a cross gu. five bezants. - Cornwall
10. Per pale az. and gu. three lions ramp. arg. - Montgomeryshire
