Faithful Fortescue

Arms of Fortescue: Azure, a bend engrailed argent, plain cotised or
Inscriptions in 1878 stained glass window in Buckland Filleigh Church, Devon, commemorating Sir Faithful Fortescue. Window erected in his memory jointly by his lineal descendants Thomas Fortescue, 1st Baron Clermont (1815–1887), an Irish Whig politician and the historian of the Fortescue family, and his younger brother Chichester Fortescue, 1st Baron Carlingford (1823–1898)
Detail from 1878 commemorative stained glass window in Buckland Filleigh Church, Devon, showing heraldic achievement of Sir Faithful Fortescue[1]

Sir Faithful Fortescue (1585–1666),[2] of Dromiskin[3] in County Louth, Ireland, was Governor of Carrickfergus[4] in Ireland, long the chief seat and garrison of the English in Ulster[5] and was a royalist commander during the English Civil War.

  1. ^ as stated in stained glass inscription
  2. ^ Parents married in September 1584, per Vivian, p.361, footnote, baptised 22 August 1585 per Vivian, p.359
  3. ^ Clermont, p.170
  4. ^ Clermont, Lord (Thomas Fortescue), History of the Family of Fortescue in all its Branches, 2nd edition London, 1880, p.149 [1]
  5. ^ Clermont, p.170