Coats of arms associated with Mansfield and variants of that name

Mansfield of Beverley, 1397 (co. York)

Gules a bend cotissed between six cross-crosslets Argent.

Source:

• J. Horsfall Turner, The Coats of Arms of the Nobility and Gentry of Yorkshire (1911), p.268.

Manfeld of Skirpenbeck (co. York)

Gules a bend cotissed Argent between six cross-crosslets Or.

Confirmed to Lancelot Manfeld by Norroy King of Arms on September 20, 1563. (See next also.)

Source:

• Sir George MacKenzie, Ed., A Display of Heraldry by John Guillim, Pursuivant of Arms, Sixth Edition (1724) p. 77.

Manfeld of Skirpenbeck (co. York)

Gules a bend cotissed Argent between six cross-crosslets fitchée Or.

Sources:

• Joseph Edmondson, "Glover's Ordinary of Arms, Augmented and Improved" in A Complete Body of Heraldry (1780) p. 107.

• The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, Volume IV (1850), pp. 141-2. Contains a transcription of the confirmation of arms and grant of a crest to Lancelot Manfeld of Skirpenbeck which includes the word "fiche" in the blazon of the cross-crosslets.

Manfield of Norwich (co. Norfolk)

Gules a bend cotissed between six cross-crosslets fitchée Argent.

These arms appear in the first quarter of an impaled coat of arms in the East Window of St. Mary's Church in Denton, Norfolk, with the inscription C. Le Grys and Manfylde 1567.

Sources:

• Joseph Edmondson, "An Alphabet of Arms" in Complete Body of Heraldry, Volume II (1780).

• Rev. Edmund Ferrar, The Church Heraldry of Norfolk (1887), p.7

• www.norfolkstainedglass.co.uk/Denton/home.shtm (accessed 5/8/2013)

Manfield of West Leake (co. Nottingham)1 and Mansfield (co. Norfolk)2

Argent a chevron between three maunches Sable.

Sources:

1. Joseph Edmondson, "An Alphabet of Arms" in Complete Body of Heraldry, Volume II (1780).

2. Francis Blomefield and Charles Parkin,  An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk, Volume X (1809), p. 139.

Mansfield of West Leake (co. Nottingham)

Argent on a chevron between three maunches Sable three bezants.

Source:

• The Reliquery, Volume XVI (1875-76), p.161; pedigree said to be entered in Herald's Visitation of 1662.

William Rose Mansfield, Baron Sandhurst

Argent on a chevron embattled Azure between three maunches Sable an Eastern crown Or, on a chief engrailed Sable a lion Or combatant with a tiger cowed proper.

Source:

• Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Complete Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage, and a Directory of Some Gentlemen of Coat-Armour, and being the first attempt to show which arms in use at the moment are borne by legal authority  (1895) p. 667-8.

Manfeld

Argent two bars Sable, on the uppermost a wivern, volant, tail extended Argent.

Source:

• Joseph Edmondson, "Glover's Ordinary of Arms, Augmented and Improved" in Complete Body of Heraldry, Volume I (1780) p. 15.

Manfeld (co. Norfolk)

Or two bars Sable, the uppermost charged with a wyvern sejant Argent.

Source:

• Rev. Edmund Ferrar, The Church Heraldry of Norfolk, Volume 3 (1893) p.77.

Manfield of Clievdon, Taplow1 (co. Buckingham)

Sable three dexter hands couped Argent.

Sources:

• W. Harry Rylands, Ed., The Visitation of the County of Buckingham made in 1634 (1909), p.89.

• George Lipscomb, The History and Antiquities of the County of Buckingham, Volume 3 (1847), p. 300.

• Sir William Dugdale, The Antiquities of Warwickshire Illustrated (1656), p. 377.

Manfield, or Mansfield (co. Buckingham)1; Manfild (co. Devon)2

Sable three sinister hands couped Argent.

Sources:

1. Joseph Edmondson, "An Alphabet of Arms" in Complete Body of Heraldry, Volume II (1780).

2. James Dallas and Henry G. Porter, Eds. The Note-Book of Tristram Risdon 1608-1628 (1897), p. 33.

Manfield

Argent a cross engrailed Sable.

Source:

• William Berry, Encyclopædia Heraldica; or, Complete Dictionary of Heraldry, Volume II (1828).

Editor's note: In A History of the County of York North Riding, Volume I (1914), pages 186-190, William Page states that the family of Fitz-Henry of Kelkfield, who bore these arms, held lands in the parish of Manfield in the early 13th century. I think it likely that no one by the name of Manfield bore these arms, but that an error in note-reading occurred and has been perpetuated in compilations of arms.

John Mansfield of Birstall House (co. Leicester)

Ermine on a fess wavy Azure a leopard's face Argent between two bezants.

Sources:

• John Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Commoners of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume II (1835), p. 178.

Mansfield (London)

Argent three lion's heads erased Sable.

Source:

• Joseph Edmondson, "Glover's Ordinary of Arms, Augmented and Improved" in Complete Body of Heraldry, Volume I (1780) p. 27. Listed as "Mangfield".

• Joseph Edmondson, "An Alphabet of Arms" in Complete Body of Heraldry, Volume II (1780).

Mansfield (Scotland)

Argent three lions' heads erased Azure.

Source:

• William Berry, Encyclopædia Heraldica; or, Complete Dictionary of Heraldry, Volume IV (1828).

Editor's note: These arms do not exist for a Mansfield in any known Scottish armorial or register, and in Workman's MS (ca. 1623), they are given as "Bauchquhane" (Buchan). I believe therefore that they must be of English origin belonging to a Mansfield, perhaps originally from Scotland.

Mansfield

Quarterly Or and Azure four trefoils reversed, slipped and counterchanged.

Source:

• Joseph Edmondson, "An Alphabet of Arms" in Complete Body of Heraldry, Volume II (1780).

Sir Philip Manfield, Knight Bachelor

Argent on a fess flory and counterflory between in chief two stags courant and in base a greyhound courant Sable three martletts Argent.

Source:

• Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Directory of Some Gentlemen of Coat-Armour, showing which arms in use at the moment are borne by legal authority (1899) p. 559.

Ralph Geoffrey Knyvet Mansfield

Argent on a chevron embattled Azure between three maunches Sable an eastern crown issuing from the points of a crescent Or, on a chief engrailed Sable a lion Or combatant with a tiger cowed proper.

Source:

• Lyon Register 38/145, 1 March 1952.

Mansfield of Ballynamultinagh (co. Waterford) and of Morristown Lattin (co. Kildare)

Argent three bars Sable the uppermost charged with a wyvern Argent.

Sources:

• Sir Bernard Burke, The General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales (1884), p. 657.

• Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Directory of Some Gentlemen of Coat-Armour, showing which arms in use at the moment are borne by legal authority (1899) p. 560.

Abner Christian Mansfield (North Carolina)

Argent a chevron Azure between in chief two maunches Sable and in base a cross crosslet Gules.

Source:

• Pending approval by the Committee on Heraldry of the New England Historic Genealogical Society.

Kenneth Mansfield (Kentucky) Obsolete

Vert a barrulet dancetty throughout Argent on a chief Gules a Celtic cross between two mullets of seven points inverted Argent.

Source:

• Members' Armorial of the American Heraldry Society. www.americanheraldry.org (archived March 22, 2012).

Matthew Lauren Mansfield (Arizona)

Argent a fess raguly Azure between in chief a buck's head couped affronty and in base a chess rook Sable .

Source:

• The Armorial Register® – International Register of Arms. www.armorialregister.com.