Old Hampshire Mapped

Coats of Arms, Heraldry

Bruget
Speed 1611
LODOWICK BRUGET
Earle of Winchester.

Longbottom There is a Louis de Bruges, Earl of Winchester, 1492, whose blazon according to Longbottom is:-

azure, ten mascles, 4,3,2,1 or, a canton gules a lion passant guardant of the second

Papworth This is also described by Papworth for Lewis de Bruges, 4th earl of Winchester.

Camden 1610
... through the bounty of King Edward the fourth, Lewis of Bruges a Netherlander Lord of Gruthuse, Prince of Steinhuse &c. Who had given him comfort and succour in the Netherlands, when hee was fled his native country, received his honour [Earl of Winchester] with Armes resembling those of Roger Quincy in these words Azur a dix Mascles D'or en orme d'un Canton de nostre propre Armes d'Engleterre, cest savour, de Goul un Leopard passant d'or, armee d'azur.

Blaeu 1645

The coat of arms on Blaeu's map of Hampshire, 1645.

Jansson 1646

The coat of arms on Jansson's map of Hampshire and Berkshire, 1646.
Lodowick Bruget E. of Winches[ ]er

Cox 1738
Lewis de Bruges, a Fleming, Lord of Gruthuse, and Prince of Steinhuse (who had entertained him in Flanders, when he fled thither for Refuge) Earl of Winchester, giving him a Coat of Arms, not much differing from those of Roger de Quincy; but this Lord surrendered up his Title soon after King Edward's Death, to King Henry VII. in whose Reign this Title lay vacant