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Title: High Sheriff of lancaster

Name: Sir John le Blount

Herald date: 1342-1344

Barry wavy of six Or and Sable with a label of three points Gules charged with six martlets Argent.

Brother of William, John was born c 1298. Joint commissioner of Worcestershire in 1344, served with Henry Plantagenet in Gascony 1347 and was present at Edward III’s siege of Calais in that same year.
Participated in a pilgrimage to Santiago in 1350. Married twice (Isoulde Montjoy and Elizabeth Beauchamp)
Deputy Sheriff under Henry Plantagenet.

Title: High Sheriff of lancaster

Name: Nicholas de Coleshill

Herald date: 1359

Chequy Argent and Sable a chief Or

Title: Monarch - personal shield

Name: Richard II- personal shield

Herald date: 1377-1399

Azure, a cross patonce between five martlets Or; impaling, quarterly, 1 and 4, Azure semee-de-lys Or; 2 and 3, Gules, three lions passant guardant in pale Or

The arms of England and France are joined by those of Edward the Confessor, to whom Richard had a particular devotion

See also the Royal arms

Title: High Sheriff of lancaster

Name: Robert de Lathum

Herald date: 1237

Or on a chief indented Azure three plates

Of Latham. Probably born c 1198 and died before September 1286. Robert was later knighted and served two further terms in office

Robert served two further terms- 1249-1255 and 1264-1265.