Vol 1: The Bluets - Lackham Countryside Centre

The Bluets 68
tinctures
Bluet de Dernford St. Maur
Fig. 13 Arms of Bluet, de Dernford and St Maur *
Sir William de Dernford held the manor of Crick (east of Penhow along
the road from Striguil to Caerleon) and Sir William Bluet held Langston
(immediately to the west of Penhow on the same road).
Both Bluet and de Dernford witnessed charters for William St Maur,
William Bluet, his brother Ralph and de Derneford all witnessed a
charter of William, abbot of Grace Dieu in 1267 286 and the same three
knights witnessed an (undated) charter of Bartholomew de Mora 287 .
William Bluet and de Derneford also both served in the Scottish
campaigns of Edward I. No other families have been found in the
medieval rolls of arms that bore this device 288 . It seems very likely that
three families associated in the same area with such similar devices were
http://perso.numericable.fr/briantimms1/rolls/StGeorgesE4.html. There is
another William de Derneford on the same roll but his arms are sable an eagle
displayed argent and so is of a different family.
286
Calendar Charter Rolls Hen III – Edw I (1257-1300) vol 2 p304 a
revalidation of the charter of 1267, revalidation dated 25 June 1285,
287
Calender Charter Rolls Edw I – Edw II (1300-1326) vol 3 p98] The original
charter was undated but the revalidation occurred in 1306. One of the other
witnesses to this charter was the Steward of Striguil, Clement de Wyrwod. de
Mora is given as being of Crick and was Sheriff of Glamorgan 1266 [Reed PC
(2008) Descent of St Maur family of Co. Monmouth and Seymour family of Hatch,
Co Somerset Foundation (2008) 2 (6) p407]
288
Reed PC (2008) Descent of St Maur family of Co. Monmouth and Seymour
family of Hatch, Co Somerset
Foundation (2008) 2 (6) p407