Cinquefoil

Cinquefoil

Cinquefoil, (fr. quintefeuille) or quintefoil: a bearing of conventional form, having five leaves, as the name implies, and, as a rule, with the centre pierced.

Gules, a cinquefoil pierced ermine--Town of LEICESTER.

Robert QUENCY de goules ung quintefueile de hermyne--Roll, temp. HEN. III.

William BARDOLF d'azur a trois quite feuiles d'or--Ibid.

Sire Johan PAYNEL de goules a un quintefoil de argent--Roll, temp. ED. II.

Or, a cinquefoil gules--VERNON.

Or, three cinquefoils gules--DYKE.

Gules, a cinquefoil or--ALLIN.

Azure, a cinquefoil ermine pierced of the field--ASHLEY.

Argent, a cinquefoil azure--MOTON or MUTTON.

Argent, three cinquefoils gules--DARELL.

Argent, two bars gules, in chief three cinquefoils of the second--STOKWITH.