Arms of Feilding, Earls of Denbigh: Argent, on a fess azure three fusils or[1]
Creation date
1622
Created by
James VI and I
Peerage
Peerage of England
First holder
William Feilding, 1st Viscount Feilding
Present holder
Alexander Feilding, 12th Earl of Denbigh, 11th Earl of Desmond
Heir apparent
Peregrine Feilding, Viscount Feilding
Subsidiary titles
Viscount Feilding Viscount Callan Baron Fielding of Newnham Paddockes Baron St Liz Baron Fielding of Lecaghe
Seat(s)
Newnham Paddox
Motto
Crescit sub pondere virtus (Virtue grows under oppression)
William Feilding, 1st Earl of Denbigh, visited India in 1631–3. On his return, Van Dyck painted him in oriental dress.
Earl of Denbigh (pronounced 'Denby') is a title in the Peerage of England. It was created in 1622 for William Feilding, Viscount Feilding, a courtier, admiral, and brother-in-law of the powerful Duke of Buckingham. The title is named after the town of Denbigh in the county of Denbighshire, Wales. Since the time of the third earl (1675), the Earl of Denbigh has also held the title of Earl of Desmond, in the Peerage of Ireland.
The family seat is Newnham Paddox, in the parish of Monks Kirby, Warwickshire. The eighth earl converted to Roman Catholicism during the 1850s, in which faith the family has remained. The earldom was one of the hereditary peerages whose entitlement to sit in the House of Lords was removed by the House of Lords Act 1999.[2]
^Debrett's Peerage, 1840, p.217
^"Earl of Denbigh". UK Parliament. Retrieved 8 September 2018.
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