COATS, CRESTS AND MOTTOS

            The Muschamp family Coat of Arms has evolved over the years, but the one depicted on my home page would appear to be the oldest, as it dates back to the days of Robert de Muschamp, the 1st Baron of Wooler.

            The following descriptions of seven Coats of Arms are taken from the Winter 1973 edition of the Genealogical Quarterly magazine, and were, themselves Notes from an Armory of 1842.

MUSCHAMP [Feudal Barons of Wooler, co. Northumberland; derived from the marriage of Cicely, dau. and eventual heir of Robert de Muschamp (who obtained divers lordships from Henry I.) with Sir Stephen Bulmer, a second son of the great family of Bulmer, of Sheriff Hutton, co. York: the daus. and co-heirs of Robert de Muschamp, Baron of Wooler, who was great-grandson of Sir Stephen and Cicely, and who d. in 1249, were - Cicely, m. to Odinel de Ford; Mary, m. to Malise, Earl of Strathearn, in Scotland; and Isabella,m. to William de Huntercombe]. A deed of Robert de Muschamp’s ratifying certain grants of land in Howburn to the Monks of Durham, bears his seal, "or, three bars gu.;" but the more ancient ensigns of the family were:"Ar. a chev. vert, betw. three flies proper". The insects in the arms, are, in some authorities, called bees, in other, butterflies, or beetles, but they are obviously "flies", allusive to the presumed derivation of the name from "musca".

MUSCHAMP            [Barmoor, co. Northumberland; descended from Sir William de Muschamp, of Barmoor, living in 1267, son of Stephen, who was third son of Thomas de Muschamp, Baron of Wooler, and grandson of Sir Stephen Bulmer, by Cycely his wife, dau. of Robert, first Baron Muschamp, of Wooler]. "Or, three bars gu".

MUSCHAMP            [Horsley, co. Surrey; Mary, only surviving dau. and heir of Denny Muschamp, of Horsley, esq. Muster-Master General of Ireland, by Elizabeth his wife, dau. of Michael Boyle, Archbishop of Armagh, m. Sir Thomas Vessey, of Ireland, knt] "Or, three bars gu".

MUSCHAMP            [Brotherlee, co. Durham; a branch of the Muschamps of Barmoor, derived, it is presumed, from John, fifth son of George Muschamp, of Barmoor, esq. high sheriff of Northumberland, in 1596, by Elizabeth, his wife, dau. of John Selby, of Twysell: the present representative is JOHN DOVER MUSCHAMP, of Brotherlee, esq. son and heir of the late Emerson Muschamp, of Brotherlee.] "Ar. a chev. vert, betw. three flies ppr" CREST "A lion ramp. gu. holding in the dexter paw a banner ar. bearing a crescent or". MOTTO "vulneror non vincor".

MUSCHAMP            "Az. a fesse engr. or, betw. three talbots’ heads erased ar."

MUSCHAMP            "Az. three butterflies volant or."

MUSCHAMP            [Cork, Ireland] "Or, three bars gu. on a canton az. a harvest-fly displ. of the first".