Grant to Illegitimate Daughters

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Hi all,

Here is a picture of an interesting grant of arms from the website of the Friends of the National Libraries. The caption reads “Grant of Arms to the illegitimate daughters of Thomas Leigh, 1806.”

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-Sebastian Nelson

[Tim Powys-Lybbe]

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Hi all,
Here is a picture of an interesting grant of arms from the website of
the Friends of the National Libraries. The caption reads “Grant of
Arms to the illegitimate daughters of Thomas Leigh, 1806.”

http://www.friendsofnationallibraries.org.uk/sites/friendsofnationallibraries.org.uk/files/styles/fancybox/public/fnl-ar12-jpegs-lymepark.jpg

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-Sebastian Nelson

Thanks for these additions to the sum of human knowledge.

Probably at least one of these daughters married. Would her children
then be able to quarter her arms?

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In short; yes. Illegitimate daughters are, in English Heraldry anyway, viewed as heraldic heiresses as the arms granted to them are in their own right, any grant to any illegitimate person being in theory a new grant, even if it is in practice the arms of their father with a bordure wavy. (this is as opposed to the practice in Scotland; where an armiger's acknowledged illegitimate child has as much right to a differenced version of their father's arms as their legitimate siblings.