Gilbert Coat of Arms & Family Crest - Symbols, Bearers, History

Gilbert “Family Crest” or Coat of Arms - Gilbert Family History & Surname
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1) The Priory, Bodmin, co. Cornwall, England - General Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert, 1st Baronet (1785-1853) was an army officer in the British East India Company born in Bodmin, Cornwall, son of Rev. Edmund Gilbert, a descendant of Sir Humphrey Gilbert (1539-1583) who was an English adventurer, explorer, Member of Parliament. - Argent on a chevron gules three roses of the field. Crest-A squirrel sejant oil a hill vert feeding on a crop of nuts proper.
2) borne by family who descended from William Gilbert who lived at Bridgerule in co. Cornwall, England who married a daughter of the Caule family and had son Richard Gilbert of North Petherwin, co. Devon - also by a family who descended from Peter Gilbert of Compton, co. Devon - also borne by Gilbert of Togenton and Bleckington, co. Sussex - Same Arms, with a canton gules for difference. Crest-A squirrel sejant gules cracking a nut or.
3) borne by Gilbert of Locko, co. Derby; originally, at a very remote period, of Gilbert’s Place, parish of Lullington; subsequently of Barrow; William Gilbert, Esq., of that place, purchased Locko in 1563 - he was ancestor of John Gilbert, Esq., of Locko - Henry Gilbert (d. 1716) of Locko, son of Henry of Locko, was a Member of Parliament for Derbyshire - similar version borne by Gilbert of Selby, co. Leicester - William Gilbert, son of Hugh Gilbert - Sable an armed leg couped at the thigh in pale between two broken spears argent headed or. Crest-A dexter arm embowed in armour proper the hand darting a broken lance in bend sinister, the point argent staff or.
4) granted to Thomas Gilbert (1720-1798), son of Thomas of Colton, co. Staff on December 26th, 1759 - lawyer, military man, land agent and Member of Parliament - Gules an armed leg couped at the thigh or, between two broken spears of the last headed ar. on a chief of the second two eagles displayed sable. Crest-On a mount vert an arm embowed in armour or, grasping a broken spear of the last headed argent.
5) borne by Gilbert of Youlgreve, co. Derbyshire - descended from Robert Gilbert of Youlgreave (born c. 1400), son of Robert Kniveton alias Gilbert - Gules a bend vaire argent and sable. Crest - Out of a ducal coronet or, a griffin’s head gules beaked of the first.
6) co. Salop - Gules a bend vair. Crest-Out of a ducal coronet or, an eagle’s head gules beaked gold.
7) granted to Thomas Gilbert, gentleman and Searcher of Kent in 1593, the son of John, who came from a prominent family in Sandwich. - Savratt, co. Hertford
8) Sir Robert Gilbert, Knt., co. Suffolk, son of Henry Gilbert, citizen of London, third son of Richard Gilbert, of the first place - Same arms w/ different crest granted to Thomas Gilbert of Mayfield, Sussex in 1616
9) Dublin, Ireland Collection of Molyneux, Ulster, 1597-1632
10) Dublin; Fun. Ent. of the wife of Mr. SHERIFF GILBERT, buried at St. Patrick`s Cathedral, 17 June, 1651
11) registered to Sir William Gilbert (c. 1580-1654), of Queen’s co., Ireland, Member of Parliament and Constable of the Fort of Maryborough
12) Scotland - 16th century or older - Argent on a chevron azure between three trefoils slipped vert as many fleur-de-lis Or.
13) confirmed to Thomas Gilbert, of Northberlingham, co. Norfolk in 1576
14) borne by William Henry Gilbert, Esq., of Cantley, co. Norfolk; Robert Gilbert. Esq., of Postwick Hall, in the same county; and the Rev. John Gilbert, of Chedgrave: sons of the late Henry Gilbert, Esq., and grandsons of Thomas Gilbert, Esq., of Chedgrave, b. in 1694
15) Brent Eleigh, co. Suffolk who decended from William Gilbert of Melford whose son, also named William, married Anne Colman of Brent Eleigh Hall - similar version w/ mullet for difference found in Woodford, co. Essex confirmed to John Gilbert of Woodford, Essex in 1616. - Argent on a chevron sable between three leopards’ faces azure as many roses or. Crest-On a mount vert a demi eagle displayed azure on the breast a mullet or.

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Never heard Raleigh pronounced like that before! Or Derbyshire and Barrow either! 😂

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