William Helyar

Arms of Helyar: Azure, a cross flory argent between four mullets pierced or[1]
Coker Court
Helyar Almshouses

William Helyar (8 January 1559 – 21 November 1645) of Coker Court, East Coker, in Somerset, was Archdeacon of Barnstaple and a chaplain to Queen Elizabeth I.[2]

  1. ^ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, 15th Edition, ed. Pirie-Gordon, H., London, 1937, p.1089
  2. ^ The Complete Baronetage. Alan Sutton Publishing, Gloucester, 1983, volume 3, page 27.