Heraldry, Terms, Charges, Fess

Fess is in Charges.

See: Fess Argent, Fess Azure, Fess Chequy, Fess Dancetté, Fess Gules.

fess. A horizontal bar across the centre of the escutcheon. From the Latin fascia meaning band.

Lisle Arms. Or a fess between two chevrons sable. Source.

Avenell Arms. Argent, a fess between five annulets gules. Modified from source.

Lister Arms. Ermine, a fess sable three mullets or. Source.

Badlesmere Arms. Argent, a fess between two gemelles gules. Source.

Louvain Arms. Gules billety or a fess of the last. Source.

Camden Arms. Or, a fess engrailed between six crosses crosslet fitchy sable. Source.

Lucas Arms. Argent, a fess between six annulets gules.

Craven Arms. Argent, a fesse between six cross crosslets fitchée gules. Source.

Manners Arms. Or, two fess azure a chief gules.

Coventry Arms. Sable a fess between three crescents or. Source.

Roper Arms. Per fess azure and or, a pale counter-changed and three buck's heads erased of the second. Source.

Fermor Arms. Argent, a fess sable between three lion's heads erased gules. Source.

Tennant Arms. Argent, two crescents in fess sable on a chief gules a boar's head couped of the first. Source.

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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.

Cromwell Arms. Quarterly per fess indented, azure and or, four lions passant counterchanged. Source.

De La Pole Arms. Azure, a fess between three leopard's faces or. Source.

Ayscough Arms. Sable, a fess or, between three asses passant argent, maned and unguled of the second. Source.

Clere Arms. Argent on a fess azure, three eagles displayed or. Source.

Walpole Arms. Or a fess between two chevrons sable three cross crosslets of the field. Source.

Watkins Arms. Azure, a fess vair between three leopard's faces jessant-de-lys or. Source.

Woodville Arms. Argent, a fess and a canton conjoined gules. Source.

Beauchamp Arms. Gules a fess or between six cross crosslets or.

Heraldry, Terms, Charges, Fess Argent

                    Around 1577 George Gower (age 37). Portrait of Richard Drake (age 42). The heraldic escutcheon shows seven quarters as follows:
                
                    1: Drake of Ash Arms. Drake of Ash in the parish of Musbury, Devon.
                
                    2: Argent, on a chief gules three cinquefoils of the first; Billet of Ash.
                
                    3: Gules, on a fess argent two mullets sable; Hamton of Rockbere and Ash.
                
                    4: Ermine, on a chief indented sable three crosslets fitchee or; Orwey of Orwey and Ash.
                
                    5: Barry of seven argent and sable.
                
                    6: Azure, six lions rampant argent crowned Gules, 3, 2, 1; Forde of Forde.
                
                    7: Argent, two chevrons sable (Esse/Ash of Ash); Esse or Ash of Ash.

Carteret Arms. Gules four fusils in fess argent.

Daubigny Arms. Gules, four fusils conjoined in fess argent. Source.

Hood Arms. Sable, on a fess argent between three leopards passant guardant or spotted of the field as many escallops gules. Source.

Kitson Arms. Sable three fishes hauriant in fess argent a chief or. Source.

Heraldry, Terms, Charges, Fess Azure

Feilding Arms. Argent, on a fess azure three lozenges or. Source.

Heraldry, Terms, Charges, Fess Chequy

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The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, a canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: "In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.

Arden Arms. Ermine, a fess chequy or and azure. Source.