Image: SheltonArms

Description: Arms of Shelton: Azure, a cross or. See St Mary's Church, Shelton, Norfolk - east window detail. Arms of de Shelton family: Azure, a cross or. As seen on the tabard of Sir Ralph Shelton (1431-1497), Knight, founder of the church, kneeling at left before St Mary. His wife Margaret Clere kneels opposite, displaying the arms of Clere (Argent, on a fess azure three eaglets displayed or) on her robe. (Source: Farrer, Edmund, Church Heraldry of Norfolk, Vol 1 (1885), p.200[1]) Shield at left: Shelton impaling Argent, on a fess azure three eaglets displayed or (Clere of Ormesby, Norfolk). Sir Ralph Shelton (1431-1497) married Margaret Clere (d. 1500), daughter of Robert Clere (d.1446) of Ormesby, Norfolk, and Elizabeth Uvedale, daughter and heiress of Thomas Uvedale of Incolneston by his wife Margaret Reeves (or Rees), daughter and heiress of William Reeves. (An essay towards a topographical history of the county of Norfolk ... By Francis Blomefield[2]). Shield at right, below Margaret Clere, Clere impaling Uvedale (Argent, a cross moline gules). Shield centre: Rees/Reeves (Gules, a chevron ermine between three fleurs-de-lys or) (Farrer, p.240) impaling Uvedale. Sir Ralph Shelton had 5 children: Sir John Shelton, Ralph Shelton (died 1538), who married Mary Brome (d. 29 August 1540), Richard Shelton, a priest, Elizabeth Shelton, and Alice Shelton, who married John Heveningham.
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