Old Hampshire Mapped
Coats of Arms, Heraldry
Bevois
BOGO or BEAVOUS
Earl of Southamp
ton a famous warrier
against ye Normans.
azure, three lions passant guardant or
These are, of course, the arms of England used by Edward I and many others. Portal pictures the lions arranged 2,1 not in the usual arrangement which is used on Speed's map.
Sir Bevois of Southampton was a champion of english Christianity against danish heathenism, a great saxon chief, son of Guy, Earl of Southampton. He is said to have thrown up Bevois' Mount near the town, to bar the river passage to the Danes. ... and other tales ...
In the first time of the Normans, Bogo or Beavose the English man, who fought against the Normans in the battell at Cardiff in Wales, is reputed to have been Earle of South-hampton, a man for warlike prowesse much renowned, whom whiles the Monks laboured to set out with their fained fables, they have obscured his doughtie deeds in greater darknes.
The coat of arms on Blaeu's map of Hampshire, 1645.
The coat of arms on Jansson's map of Hampshire and Berkshire, 1646.
Bogo or Beavous E. of Southampton a famous warrier against ye Normans
Bogo or Beauvois, Earl of Southampton, who at the Time of the Conquest was a powerful Saxon Lord, of that Spirit, that he could not bear the Norman Yoke, and therefore gathering an Army of English, Danes and Welsh, resolved to maintain his Liberty. The Normans gave him Battle at Cardiffe in Glamorganshire Anno 1070, and defeated him, whereupon he fled to Carlisle, and we hear of him no more. He was a person of great military Courage and Conduct, as well as personal Strength, as the Monkish Historians represent him, and our modern writers have mightily improved in a Romance, bearing his Title. His Sword is said to be preserved in Arundel Castle.