Image: Memorial to William Gerrarde in Chester Cathedral

Description: Mural monument in Chester Cathedral to Sir w:William Gerard (1518–1581), of Ince in Lancashire, MP for Chester, Vice-President of the Council of Wales and the Marches, Lord Chancellor of Ireland. Family of Gerard of Gerard's Bromley Hall, Staffordshire. Arms: Top: Gerard (Azure, a lion rampant ermine crowned or quartering Ince of of Ince-in-Makerfield, Lancashire (Argent, three torteax in bend between two cotises sable) Left: Gerard quartering Ince of Ince; impaling Barton of Smithill, Lancashire (of 4 quarters) for his wife Dorothy Barton, a daughter of Andrew Barton of w:Smithills Hall ("Smitells/Smethells"), Lancashire. Quarters: 1: Azure, a fess between three buck's heads cabossed or (Barton of Smithills) 2: Argent, two bendlets engrailed sable (Radcliffe of Smithills) 3: Argent, a mullet pierced sable (Walton/Waleton of Leyland Hundred, Lancs., a Norley heiress (Visit Lancs, pp.154,160,198, arms challenged by Assheton, who also bore them). 4: Gules, a cross engrailed argent (Norley, a Radcliffe heiress). Also arms of Legh of Lyme Park, Cheshire: Gules, a cross engrailed argent. These were originally the arms of de Norley, adopted by Legh following the marriage of Robert de Legh to Matilda de Norley, a daughter and co-heiress of Adam de Norley by his wife Margeria de Waleton, daughter and heiress of John son of Warin de Waleton/Walton in Leyton Hundred, Lancashire. Matilda's sister and co-heiress was Katherine de Norley, wife of William de Radcliffe. These two families (Legh and Radcliffe) thenceforth adopted or quarteredd the arms of de Norley and of Waleton (Argent, a mullet pierced sable). The arms of Waleton were later (in the reign of King Henry VII) challenged by the Assheton family, which bore the same arms. (Source: Langton, William, ed. (1882). The Visitation of Lancashire and a part of Cheshire, made in the twenty-fourth year of the reign of King Henry the Eighth, A.D. 1533, by special commission of Thomas Benalt, Clarencieux: Part II. Chetham Society. 110. Manchester: Chetham Society, pp.153-4[1])(Sources: Burke's General Armory, 1884; Heraldic Visitation of Lancashire, 1533, ed. William Langton, Chetham Society, 1882, Part II, pp.197-8, pedigree of "Barton of Smethells"[2]) The 3rd shield at right shows the arms of his eldest son, who married Jane Almer, a daughter of William Almer of Pentyokin, Denbighshire (Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 21, Gerard, William by James McMullen Rigg[3]). Arms: Gerard quartering Ince of Ince; impaling Almer of Pentyokin, Denbighshire (of 4 quarters): 1&4: Azure, a lion rampant or armed and langued gules (Almer); (Burke, General Armory, p.14) 2: Azure, a fess between three .... argent 3: Sable, a chevron or between three .... argent
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