Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland

Thomas Manners

KG
1st Earl of Rutland
Effigy of Manners, St Mary's Church, Bottesford, Leicestershire, near to his seat of Belvoir Castle
Bornc. 1497
Died(1543-09-20)20 September 1543
FatherGeorge Manners, 11th Baron de Ros
MotherAnne St Leger
Quartered arms of Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland, as displayed on his Garter stall plate (see below)
Arms of Manners, Earls and Dukes of Rutland: Or, two bars azure a chief quarterly azure and gules; in the 1st and 4th quarters two fleurs-de-lis and in the 2nd and 3rd a lion passant guardant all or[1] The original coat of arms of the Manners family showed a chief gules.[2] The quartering in chief, with the fleurs-de-lis of the Royal arms of France and lion passant guardant of the Royal arms of England, was granted as an augmentation by King Henry VIII to Thomas Manners at the time of his creation as Earl of Rutland, in recognition of his descent in the maternal line from Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, a descendant of King Edward III (1327–1377)[3]

Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland, 12th Baron de Ros of Helmsley, KG (c. 1497 – 20 September 1543), of Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire (adjacent to the small county of Rutland), was created Earl of Rutland by King Henry VIII in 1525.[4]

  1. ^ Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p. 968
  2. ^ As visible for example in the arms of his father impaling St Leger in a window of the Rutland Chantry, St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
  3. ^ The general armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, Comprising a Registry of Armorial Bearings from the Earliest to the Present Time, by Sir Bernard Burke, 1884 edition, p. 656
  4. ^ Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p.969