Coats of Arms

from BARONAGE Magazine

Heraldry is usually much easier to check than are the more complex details of marriage connections in the middle ages, but even here Burke's Peerage may not be considered as an authority. The illustrations of arms at the head of the articles do not always match the blazon given at the foot. Sometimes both the illustration and the blazon are wrong. For example, on the shield of the Edmonstone baronets appear the pronominal arms of Seton, for the Edmonstone's red ring with its blue centre (annulet gules stoned azure ) is missing. (The similarity is probably owed to the 12th century Edmonstones of that Ilk and their cadets, the Edmonstones of Duntreath, being descended of the Setons.)