Irish Family Crests
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- čas přidán 13. 07. 2024
- A distinctive feature of Irish heraldry is acceptance of the idea of sept arms, which belong to descendants, not necessarily of a determinate individual, but of an Irish sept. A sept was a clan with members who bear the same surname and inhabited the same territory.
From 1392 until 1485, heraldry in Ireland was regulated by the Ireland King of Arms, a title of an officer of arms to the King of England and Lord of Ireland. From 1552 until 1943, this function belonged to the Ulster King of Arms, which despite its name, was based in Dublin.
The Peerage of Ireland consists of those titles of nobility created by the English monarchs in their capacity as Lord or King of Ireland, or later by monarchs of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. The creation of such titles came to an end in the 19th century. The ranks of the Irish peerage are Duke, Marquess, Earl, Viscount and Baron.
Henry VIII conferred peerages on native Irish Chiefs: Con O'Neill, Chief of the O'Neills in Ulster, was created Earl of Tyrone and Baron Dungannon in 1542; Murrough, Chief of Clan O'Brien, was created Earl of Thomond and Baron Inchiquin in 1543.
From the mid-16th and into the early 17th century, crown governments carried out a policy of colonisation known as Plantations. Scottish and English Protestants were sent as colonists to the provinces of Munster, Ulster and the counties of Laois and Offaly. The largest of these projects, the Plantation of Ulster, had settled 80,000 English and Scots in the north of Ireland by 1641.
The so-called Ulster Scots were predominantly Presbyterian, which distinguished them from the Anglican English colonists. These settlers, who had a British and Protestant identity, would form the ruling class of future British administrations in Ireland. It was upon this class which the majority of Irish peerages were conferred in the 18th century. Irish peers, mainly representing Anglo-Irish landed interests, were entitled to sit in the Irish House of Lords in Dublin, but not its equivalent in London. Irish peerages could be given to Englishmen who, it was said, did not merit an English or a Great Britain dignity.
The O’Malley Coat of Arms is blazoned as follows: Or, a boar passant gules. Crest-A ship with three masts, sails set, all proper. One of the most famous members of this family was Grace O’Malley. Grace O’Malley (c. 1530) was the head of the Ó Máille dynasty in the west of Ireland. When her father died, she assumed the lordship despite having a brother. Grace refused to bow before Elizabeth. In 1593, her three sons were taken captive by Sir Richard Bingham, governor of Connacht. Grace sailed to England and formally presented her petition for their release to Queen Elizabeth I at her court in Greenwich Palace. She spoke to the queen in Latin, demonstrating she was probably formally educated. However, Grace refused to bow before Elizabeth because she did not recognize her as the "Queen of Ireland". Nevertheless, an agreement was reached: Elizabeth would remove Bingham from his position in Ireland, and Grace would stop supporting the Irish lords' rebellions.
She allegedly took a shipwrecked sailor as her lover, but the affair was brief, as he was killed by the MacMahons of Ballvoy. Seeking vengeance, Grace attacked the MacMahon castle of Doona in Blacksod Bay and killed her lover's murderers on Cahir Island. Her attack on Doona Castle earned her the nickname 'Dark Lady of Doona'.
Next we have the Langrishe family. Their coat of arms is blazoned as follows: A lion rampant per fess Or and Sable.
Sir Hercules Langrishe, 1st Baronet of Langrishe (1729 - 1 February 1811) was an Irish politician. He was the only son of Robert Langrishe of Knocktopher, County Kilkenny and educated at Trinity College, Dublin, where he graduated B.A. in 1763. He was a commissioner of barracks 1766-74, supervisor of accounts 1767-75, commissioner of revenue 1774-1801, and commissioner of excise 1780-1801. On 19 February 1777 he was created a Baronet, of Knocktopher, County Kilkenny, in the Baronetage of Ireland. On 27 February 1792 he was appointed to the Irish Privy Council.
He married Hannah, the daughter and coheiress of Robert Myhill of Killerney, County Kilkenny by whom he had two sons and three daughters. The family seat from 1679 to 1981 was Knocktopher Abbey, near Knocktopher, County Kilkenny.
Here we see Sir Langrishe, 5th Baronet, with his dog, along with a memorial stone for his wife Maria, who died in 1870, featuring the following inscription from the Song of Solomon: Until the day breaks and the shadows flee away.
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So proud to be an O'Malley..my family came from slygo and Mayo i was born in Manchester UK but my daddy came over to the UK from Mayo in the 50's and met an married my mammy and her family's name is McDermott ❤
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Coats of Arms. The crest is the ornament on top.
I’m a Donaho on my dad’s side. My Mother is a Galloway and they all escaped to the United States of America in the 1700s as far as I know.
My ancestors came to America. Went to the dakotas for rail road building and owned stores and a lot of great stuff I found out since they got to the United States. Any ways to know family history or art historical items or anything related to old family I’d like to know al I can
O'Regan is my family. They dropped the o and spelt it Reagan. They came to Eastern Tennessee
An informative if not very smooth/eloquent presentation.....
My wife tells me the same thing.
Just watched , and kind of a bit roughed up by the pronunciations 😕 mc Mahon is phonetically "mak mahun" the county of laois is phonetically "leash" just like you would use to walk the dog ,
A good effort the names can be difficult through our native pronunciation and the anglicised spelling of Irish words which some times bear no reflection to the original names - take for example "Dublin" which the Irish is - Baile Atha Cliath - but the original name was - an Dubh Linn - phonetically " on Duv ling" which is a flick back to the Norse invaders and settlers who named it when they settled there , an Dubh Linn literally means the black pool or lake or body of water that was dark in colour and was a reference to the merging point of where the river dodder and the main river Liffey merged close to wood-quay the Viking /Norse dock of the settlement where as the main settlement stretched from there to the top of the hill at the corn market and Christchurch,
Same in Waterford City another Norse settlement - Vater Fjiord due to the high cliffs reminiscent of the Fjiords at the entrance from the sea at Dunmore East area , there are so many examples of this around the country we could be here for years discussing . Just try work on the pronunciations a little more but good presentation!
im interested the McCormick coat of arms. Im also intereted in schimetz coat of arms. my great grandfather Frank Schimetz was born sometime in 1880's in novomesto what was then austria-hungary. its now in Slovenia
My great great grandmother maiden name is Pugh.
Was there a Caldwell family crest? We came to Ireland as part of the Plantation of Ulster, and became a Baron in the 1600's I believe.
Here is a our Caldwell video:
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Hi Have you any information on Downey crest my grand father s name thank you
Here you are Jack:
O'Downey - Ireland - Vert, a chief ermine
O'Downey (or Dunny, Downy) - Ireland - Gules three lions passant guardant in pale, per pale, or and argent
Downey - Scotland - Azure a fess engrailed between three boar's heads erased or.
My crest has a crown on it? Does the symbol on top represent what the clan was.
The symbol at the top does not represent the clan they were from in most instances.
Can somebody please do a piece of the Irish Cramer family? That's my DNA however I carry the last name Yates i am not Yates DNA due to a man name Ambrose Nicolas Cramer(Yates) he took on a man last name that wasn't his father which is the name i carry.
U missed out o’carroll!
Would like to know about the very ancient ONolan the clan was prior to Christ some where around 5th century also the druids kept very good records! Know some how they are related the prince of For this sorry spelled wrong. Then also had great favor with king. This a very old clan that goes back to over a 1000 years. They are on mom's side. Is the name Bryant Irish? What is their coat of arms!
Bryant - Azure, on a cross or, a cinquefoil between four lozenges gules. Crest: a flag azure, charged with a saltier, argent.
It is variation of Bryan/Brian, which has many more arms.
Here is our video for Bryan:
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How about O'Shields?
My great grandmother maiden name is King on my father's side and my other great grandmother maiden name is Collins on my mother's side.
Collins -
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King - czcams.com/video/2HBXjyiPoAo/video.html
Hi, I have a Bravarian family plaque dated 1712 from what I believe is from the Lohr region…from a castle or large home, can anyone on here please help me identify what family it is from and where it originated from…I can send a pic
Sounds interesting Rick! Please send a picture to tammy@coadb.com and she will be able to help you identify it.
@@CoatofArmsDatabase hi, I have sent a pic via email thanks 🙏🏻
is there a coat of arms that has beech
Yes, there are at least three coats of arms for Beech, blazoned as follows:
Vaire argent and gules on a canton of the second a garb Or.
Vaire argent and gules on a canton of the first, a martlet sable.
(Brandon Lodge, co. Warwick, and Shawe, co. Stafford). Argent on a bend gules three bucks’ heads cabossed Or. Crest-A stag’s head cabossed or. Motto-Sub tegmine fagi.
There are several more for Beche
im sorry but you forgot mcmahon
How can I find if the Mannette family had a crest?
I checked out database, but I was unable to find any coats of arms with the surname Mannette.
Thank you so much for checking, I appreciate it . ☺️
You missed Keating
Cunningham coat of arms would be like what ?
So are you saying that the Irish nobility weren't Irish at all, but English?
I focused on the Anglo-Irish in this video. That was probably a mistake. We will work on a second video with more examples.
thats very date dependent and even then which family
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no o'doherty for example had British royalty in them but they hail from the Basque people. Niall of the nine hostages is their lineage and they say he is from Spanish king. o'doherty is an old irish name not English.
These were not “white” ppl
Langley coat of arms ?
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what about my house?
GRIFFIN dad's side.
Me: what happned to fitzgerald
Connor O'Rourke ,you beauty
In America we are Rock
McClarnon
O Brien here
No Mention of the O'Neills from the North.
(O) Neill Ó Néill. In addition to the famous O’Neills of Ulster there were septs of the name in Thomond (see Nihill), Decies (Co. Waterford) and Carlow. The main family of the O’Neills, dominant in Tyrone up to the collapse of the Gaelic system in the seventeenth century, descend from the famous Niall of the Nine Hostages. A branch known as Clandeboy (Clann Aoidh Bhuidhe) settled in Co. Antrim in the fourteenth century. The name is numerous throughout Ireland, especially in Tyrone and Antrim. For fuller treatment of the O’Neills see IF Map Antrim, Down, Tyrone, Carlow and Waterford-Tipperary. For derivation see Neilson.
(O) Nihill A form of O’Neill in Co. Clare often written Ó Neighill in Irish. The sept which was located in the barony of Bunratty was of the Thomond, not of the Ulster O’Neills.
Collins is also my family
Collins Coat of Arms:
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Im a Hickey/ O`hicadeha
Leinster
Laois is pronounced as Leash
That wasn't his only mispronounciation. Sloppy work.
If I listened to more of the video my corrections would probably be longer
Curran
My Mc Curdy side from Isle of Bute Scotland' left & married Northern Ireland girls , im sure if the story i did my ancetry DNA.
I'm a adams mothers side.
Kelly is mine
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Irish septs do not have heraldy. You might find a sept war banner in gaelic history. What you speak of is English heraldry. Have at it folks if it gives you pleasure but note historicaly these coat of arms would mean nothing to septs. (Clan is a scottish word) septs was irish
Oops sorry i didnt realise you were selling coat of arms. Look into the history of war banners and colours for each sept. Sorry
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O’More.??? Be real
The pronunciation of names is atrocious!
Sorry we let you down
Green-witch? That and other mispronunciations mark this as another non-scholarly narrator's work who knows little about the subject matter at hand.
I miss pronounce locations, therefore I don't know about heraldry? Solid logic there idiot.
McClarnon