Power Heraldry by Frank R. Power Comments and questions are welcome. [email protected] Heraldry is the study of coats of arms that are inherited symbols, or devices, called charges, displayed on a shield, or escutcheon, for the purpose of identifying individuals or families. It involves the art of devising, granting, and blazoning arms, tracing genealogies, and determining and ruling on questions of rank or protocol. Heraldry and genealogy have a long, collaborative relationship. Heraldry requires a knowledge of genealogy and heraldry has often been used as evidence to support genealogical conclusions. The basic role of both heraldry and genealogy is to identify and place individuals within the context of their families and if done well, within the wider historical context in which they lived. Heraldry can provide excellent clues and pointers to ancestry. The following tabulation of Power and related names, coats of arms, geographical locations, blazons (text descriptions), crests and mottoes, source references and notes along with the attached geographic distribution map are intended as a starting point for the use of heraldry in fleshing out our Power family history. For further information: Intro to Heraldry - A Primer for Genealogists: Heraldry, History & Inheritance By Kimberly Powell, About.com Guide http://genealogy.about.com/cs/heraldry/a/heraldry.htm RootsWeb's Guide to Tracing Family Trees Guide No. 19 Heraldry for Genealogists http://rwguide.rootsweb.ancestry.com/lesson19.htm Using Heraldry in Genealogical Research http://watsoncanet.webcon.net.au/blog/2010/10/20/using-heraldry-in-genealogical-research/ Articles from several sources which are directly or indirectly related to heraldry in Ireland. http://www.heraldry.ws/ 1 Power Heraldry Name Arms Location Blazon Crest/Motto Source Notes Power Ireland Argent a chief Papworth p555 ARSNICK. ARSYOKE. Sir Roger BALDWYN or Poer Poore indented sable Boutell's 1970 BAUDWYN, L. BAMENT. Adam de BAVENT, A, And others Plate III no. 8 Harl. MS. 6137. BAVENT, V. Sire Roger de Dering Roll 121 BAVENT, N. Monsire Roger BAVENT, Y. Sir John c1270 HARSECK or HARSICK, 1384, quartering Calthorp and Gestingthorp; in church at South Acre, Norfolk; Gough, i, 140. HARSICK, Norfolk. HILICKE. HILLICK or НILLOCK. HILLOCK. LA POER, Ireland. LE POER, Curraghmore, со. Waterford. DE A 12th century LA РОЕR, Baronies 1375, 1452, 1535, sculpture from Viscount Decies and Earl of Tyrone I673, extinct Jerpoint Abbey in 1704; the heiress m. Beresford. POORE, Ireland. County Kilkenny Dominas de POWER, Ireland, V. POWER, со. supposedly Oxford. And with a crescent arg. on a crescent gu. for depicts a knight diff. Baron POER of the Butler family, but in the Boutell's 1970 Power {Baron Power, of Curraghmore, and Earl of absence of colors Plate III no. 8 Tyrone: barony dormant, earldom extinct 1704; Sir on the shield, it RICHARD POWER, of Curraghmore, was created could as easily be BGA Baron Power, of Curraghmore, by patent, 13 Sept. a Poer 1535, with remainder to the heirs male of his body; his descendant, RICHARD, sixth lord Power was created, 1673, Earl of Tyrant; JAMES, third Earl, d. s.p. m. 1704, when the earldom became extinct, and the barony reverted to the male heir of the body of the grantee, who was then Col. JOHN POWER of James II.'s army, attainted after the battle of the Boyne; his only son, HENRY POWER, called Lord Power, petitioned for the Curraghmore estates In 1717, and d s.p. 1742; EDMOND POWER, or De LA POER, of A, stag's head Gurteen, now Gurteen La Poer, Count De la Poer, cabossed ppr. claims to be the heir male of the body of RICHARD attired or, betw. LE POER, the patentee in 1635). Same Arms. the attires a Supporters —Two angels ppr. rested ar. crined and crucifix ppr. winged or, each holding in the exterior hand a sword also ppr. pommels and hilts gold. Power (Corheen, co. Galway; descended from Kilbolane, the representative, DAVID POWER, Esq., of Corheen, co. Galway, d. 168ft, left an only dau. and heiress, FRANCES POWER, m. RICHARD TRENCH, Esq., of Garbally, and had a son, 2 WILLIAM POWER KEATING TRENCH, first Earl of Clancarty. Arms confirmed by Fortescue, Ulster, to DAVID POWER, Esq., of Corheen, co. Galway). Power (Clashmore, co. Waterford; Richard Power, Esq., the male representative of this line, m. Dorothea, sister of Robert Shapland, first Lord Corns, and left an only dau. and heiress, Elizabeth Anne Power, m, 1835, Francis Theophilus Henry, twelfth Earl of A buck's head Huntingdon, and d. 1857). Same Arms and Crest. cabossed ar. attired or, betw. Power (Gardenmorres, co. Waterford; Elizabeth the attires a Power, dau. and heir of Richard Power, Esq., of Gardenmorres, m. John O'shee, Esq., of Sheestown, and was grandmother of Nicholas Power O'shee, Esq., now of Gardenmorres and Sheestown). Same Arms. Poer (de la) D'argent, au chef Armorial de J.B. denché de sable RIETSTAP crucifix ppr. Power, Le Suffolk Argent a chief Papworth p555 BANNETT, Suffolk. Sir Roger BAUDWYN, L. Poer Ireland dancetty sable Adame BEVENT, A. НILIСКЕ. LE POER. POWER, And Others Ireland.. Power Norfolk Or a chief indented Papworth p559 ARSYCKE. HARSACK or HARSECK, Norfolk. And others Ireland sable John de HARSICK, Y. Le, Sire du HARSIKE, Y. Sire Devon Roger HARSIKE, V. HERSETT, Norfolk. POWER, Ireland. SKERETT, со. Devon. 3 Power of Waterford Argent on a chief Papworth p566 POORE or POWER, Baron of Dunoyle, 1327 Dunoyle indented sable three lions rampant, of the BGA Power (Baron of Donhill, co. Waterford. A.D. 1278). first POWER, Waterford Argent a chief Robson Earl of Tyrone, [Earl of indented sable ; over Papworth p237 HarL MS. 4040, fo. 123 ; Viscount Decies and Earl of Tyrone] all, on a bend azure Tyrone 9 October 1673; extinct 10 August 1704. three escallops or Poer Powershayes, Per pale wavy or and BGA ROGER POWER, Esq., of Powershayes, temp. Henry Power Devon azure IV., bad an only dau. and heir. CICELY POWER, m. DUKE, of co. Devon; the descendant of this marriage, Sir HENRY DUES, of Castle Jordan, co. Heath, was knighted by Sir William Fits-William, Lord Deputy of Ireland, 1688). Robert le Poer Azure Dering Roll c1270 Robert le Poer Kent and Sussex Azure three boar's Dering Roll 117 heads couped or c1270 The Heralds' Roll c1280 4 Richard le Gules a fess and in St George's Roll Poer chief two mullets c1285 argent Charles' Roll c1285 William le Gules a fess and in Collins' Roll Poer chief two mullets dated 1296 ( William argent Pouuer) Poer of Argent a chief Power (Gurteen La Poer, co. Waterford; FRANCES, Gurteen indented sable, a widow of JOHN POWER, Esq., of Gurteen, and mullet for difference mother of EDMOND POWER, Esq., of Gurteen La Poer, Count De la Poer, was authorised, for herself and her issue, by royal license, 1863, to take the name of De La POER, instead of POWER, Count De la Poer is the male heir and representative of JOHN POWER FITZ-EDMOND, Esq., of Grange, co. Galway, who became "nearest heir male" of HENRY POWER, called Lord Power, the heir male of the third and last Earl of Tyrone). Same Arms and Crest, a mullet for diff. Motto—' Per crucem ad coronam. Poher Bredon Gules a fess or two Heraldry of POHER, of Wichenford. This family, we are informed Witchenford mullets argent in Worcestershire - by Nash, came in with the Conqueror. Hugh le Poher Worcester, also chief Page 446 was Deputy-Sheriff of this county in the 16th of Pirton, Worcester by Henry Sydney Henry II. ; Grazebrook - Walter le Poher in the 9th, 10th, and 11th of John ; 1873 and Hugh le Poher in the 8th, 14th, 15th, 19th, and 2Oth of Henry III. John le Poher held a moiety of the manor of Wichenford in the reigns of Edward III. and Richard II. He inherited from the Chamberlains, they from John de Haseleigh, and he from David St. Michael 5 Poher St Peter, Or a fess gules two 'Parishes: St Peter Worcester mullets gules in chief with Whittington', A History of the Or a fesse gules with County of two molets gules in Worcester the chief. Poher Wichenford, co. Gules a fess or two BGA Poher; in the 43rd of Edward III. JOHN LE POHER is Worcester mullets or in chief Parishes: styled Lord of the Manor of Wichenford; the heiress Wichenford', A of the family, MARGARET, only child of JOHN History of the POHER, Esq., of Wichenford, m. JOHN Poer. Gules a fesse or County of WASHBOURNE, of Washbourne, now represented with two molets or in Worcester by MONEY, of cos. Hereford and Wilts). the chief. Power (Pоre), Wichenford, Gules a fess argent Henry Sydney WASHBORNE, of Washborne, Wickenford, and Richard de Worcestershire two mullets argent in Grazebrook Stanford.—This ancient knightly family was seated at Poher chief Heraldry of Little Washborne, in Overbury, before the reign of Worcestershire - Edward III. Roger de Washborne, living about the Page 446 reign of Edward III., had two sons, both named John. (1873) The elder married Katherine Tromwyn, but by her, who married, secondly, Sir John Musard, knt., he had no issue. He was succeeded by his grand-nephew, John Washborne, of Washborne and Stanford, the son of Peter Washborne, who was the son of John, the younger son of Roger de Washborne. John Washborne was twice married: by his first wife, Joan, daughter and heiress of Sir John Musard (by Katherine, his wife, widow of the aforesaid John Washborne the elder), he had issue an only child, Isolda,* who was married to John Salwey, and carried with her the Stanford estates. His second wife was Margaret, the daughter and co-heiress of John Poher, lord of Wichenford, by whom he was father of Norman Washborne, who, says Nash, after various law suits with the Salweys, retired to his mother's estate at Wichenford, where the family continued for six generations, intermarrying with the Kynastons, Myttons, Staples, Tracys, Savages, Lygons, &c.