Wake knot

Wake knot
The Wake badge.
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FamilyWake family
RegionLincolnshire
Bench end in Monkleigh Church, Devon showing the Ormonde knot and arms of Thomas Butler, 7th Earl of Ormond (c.1426-1515): Gules, three covered cups or,[1]

The Wake knot or Ormond knot is an English heraldic knot used historically as an heraldic badge by the Wake family, lords of the manor of Bourne in Lincolnshire and also by the Butler family, Earls of Ormond.

  1. ^ Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p. 864, Butler, Earl & Marquess of Ormonde