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Description: coat of arms of Richmond, Lennox and Gordon Arms. Quarterly: 1st and 4th grand quarters, the Royal Arms of Charles II (viz. quarterly: 1st and 4th, France and England quarterly; 2nd, Scotland; 3rd, Ireland); the whole within a Bordure compony Argent charged with Roses Gules barbed and seeded proper and the last (Lennox); overall an Escutcheon Gules charged with three Buckles Or (the Dukedom of Aubigny); (Coat of arms of Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond, 1st Duke of Lennox, 1st Duke of Aubigny, an illegitimate son of King Charles II) 2nd grand quarter, Argent a Saltire engrailed Gules between four Roses of the second barbed and seeded proper (Lennox); 3rd grand quarter, quarterly, 1st, Azure three Boars' Heads couped Or (Gordon); 2nd, Or three Lions' Heads erased Gules (Badenoch); 3rd, Or three Crescents within a Double Tressure flory counter-flory Gules (Seton); 4th, Azure three Cinquefoils Argent (Fraser).Crests. 1st (Lennox crest) a Bull's Head erased Sable horned Or; (Bull’s Head for Lennox with the motto Avant Darnlie[1]) 2nd (Richmond crest) on a Chapeau Gules turned up Ermine a Lion statant guardant Or crowned with a Ducal Coronet Gules and gorged with a Collar compony of four pieces Argent and gules charged with two roses of the last; (Richmond crest with Lennox collar and coronet). The Richmond motto: En la rose je fleurie – Like the rose, I flourish. 3rd (Gordon crest), out of a Ducal Coronet a Stag's Head affrontée proper attired with ten Tynes Or. ( stag with ducal coronet for Gordon. The motto Bydand means Steadfast)Supporters. Dexter: an Unicorn Argent armed, crined and unguled Or; Sinister: an Antelope Argent, also armed, crined and unguled Or, each supporter gorged with a Collar company as the crest. Motto. Over the 1st crest, Avant Darnlie; over the 2nd crest, En La Rose Je Fleuris; and over the 3rd crest, Bydand. Cracroft's Peerage
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