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Signed Card Matthew Fortescue, 2nd Baron Fortescue

Signed Card Matthew Fortescue, 2nd Baron Fortescue

$ 10.53

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  • Condition: light wear
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    Description

    see scan In the family's mythology, the House of Fortescue is said to date from the Battle of Hastings (1066), where Richard le Fort supposedly saved the life of William the Conqueror by the shelter of his shield, and was thereafter known by the Norman-French epithet Fort-Escu ("strong shield").[3] His descendants took for their Latin motto: Forte scutum salus ducum - "A strong shield is the safety of leaders". The family first appears in surviving records as holding the manor of Whympston in the parish of Modbury in South Devon, part of which Ralph Fortescue granted circa 1140 to nearby Modbury Priory.[4] The Devon antiquarian Sir William Pole (d.1635) states that the manor of Whympston was granted to the family in 1209 by King John.[5] Further grants to Modbury Priory were made by the family in the 13th century.[6] Reference to their origin at Whympston is made on the 17th-century mural monument at Weare Giffard, North Devon, one of the family's later seats.
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