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.

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.'

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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.

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.

Annals of the six Kings of England by Nicholas Trivet

Translation of the Annals of the Six Kings of England by that traces the rise and rule of the Angevin aka Plantagenet dynasty from the mid-12th to early 14th century. Written by the Dominican scholar Nicholas Trivet, the work offers a vivid account of English history from the reign of King Stephen through to the death of King Edward I, blending political narrative with moral reflection. Covering the reigns of six monarchs—from Stephen to Edward I—the chronicle explores royal authority, rebellion, war, and the shifting balance between crown, church, and nobility. Trivet provides detailed insight into defining moments such as baronial conflicts, Anglo-French rivalry, and the consolidation of royal power under Edward I, whose reign he describes with particular immediacy. The Annals combines careful year-by-year reporting with thoughtful interpretation, presenting history not merely as a sequence of events but as a moral and political lesson. Ideal for readers interested in medieval history, kingship, and the origins of the English state, this chronicle remains a valuable and accessible window into the turbulent world of the Plantagenet kings.

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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.

Fess Argent

                    Around 1577 George Gower [aged 37]. Portrait of Richard Drake [aged 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.

Fess Azure

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

Fess Chequy

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

Memoires of Jacques du Clercq

This is a translation of the 'Memoires of Jacques du Clercq', published in 1823 in two volumes, edited by Frederic, Baron de Reissenberg. In his introduction Reissenberg writes: 'Jacques du Clercq tells us that he was born in 1424, and that he was a licentiate in law and a counsellor to Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy, in the castellany of Douai, Lille, and Orchies. It appears that he established his residence at Arras. In 1446, he married the daughter of Baldwin de la Lacherie, a gentleman who lived in Lille. We read in the fifth book of his Memoirs that his father, also named Jacques du Clercq, had married a lady of the Le Camelin family, from Compiègne. His ancestors, always attached to the counts of Flanders, had constantly served them, whether in their councils or in their armies.' The Memoires cover a period of nineteen years beginning in in 1448, ending in in 1467. It appears that the author had intended to extend the Memoirs beyond that date; no doubt illness or death prevented him from carrying out this plan. As Reissenberg writes the 'merit of this work lies in the simplicity of its narrative, in its tone of good faith, and in a certain air of frankness which naturally wins the reader’s confidence.' Du Clercq ranges from events of national and international importance, including events of the Wars of the Roses in England, to simple, everyday local events such as marriages, robberies, murders, trials and deaths, including that of his own father in Book 5; one of his last entries.

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Stewart Arms. Or a fess chequy. Source.