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The term “Seize Quartiers” as well understood in Europe as the true test of birth, is the source of much confusion in the UK, where descent in the strict male line is the one to which preference is given, and to which the chief and almost sole value is attached. The “quarterings” which a man inherits, and may bear upon his own escutcheon, are the arms of those of his female ancestors who were heiresses in blood, or, had no brothers to leave surviving issue. These have no relation to the proof of “seize quartiers,” the arms of which are not necessarily borne, inherited, or transmitted. Every person has two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grandparents, and sixteen great-great-grandparents. To show a right to “seize quartiers,” it must be proved that the whole and each individual one of these sixteen great-great-grandparents were in their own right lawfully entitled to bear arms.

In England it is the exception for this to be found possible. It is rare indeed other than with Catholic families. That anyone in England should be in such a position to prove as much a generation farther back in every line, and show that each of his thirty-two great-great-great-grandparents had the right to bear arms is almost(?) unique. Alfred Joseph, Lord Mowbray, Segrave, and Stourton, could do this, and the following scheme of “Trent-Deux Quartiers” was drawn up at the College of Arms by Stephen Tucker Esquire, Somerset Herald.

The 32 Stourton Quarterings (1877)
TRENT-DEUX QUARTIERS OF LORD MOWBRAY AND STOURTON compiled for the Mowbray-Segrave Case 1877.

Showing Stourton's 32 Great-great-great-grandparents by S Tucker, Somerset Herald.

Stourton Family tree with Quarterings (1)


Stourton Family tree with Quarterings (2)




