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THE HERALDRY OF YORK MINSTER.
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Earl of Salisbury, had been carried abroad and secreted by her French
"relations in Normandy. To discover the place of her concealment a
"knight of the Talbot family spent two years in exploring that pro V1 r
" (at
first under the guise of a pilgrim), till having found where she was
"confined, he followed the example of the royal minstrel, Blondell de ^esle,
"who thus detected the King's responsive voice from the dungeon of the
"Duke of Austria, and having adopted the dress and character of a harper,
" was gladly received into the family, whence he took an opportunity
to
"carry off the young lady, whom he presented to the King; and he
"bestowed her, not on the adventurous Talbot, but on his natural brother,
"William Longespee, son of Fair Rosamond, who became in her right
"Earl of Salisbury."
These arms are also, however, borne by the family of Leyborne-
Azure, six lioncels argent. In Dugdale's Baronage, Roger de Leyborne is
recorded as having been made (49 th year of the reign of
Henry III., i.e.,
1265 A.D.) "Warden of all the forests beyond
"Trent." Dugdale also tells us that he married
Eleanor de Turnham, and Burke that he was
ward of Stephen de Turnham, names which will
be alluded to further on, and which seem to
connect him with Yorkshire and the Yorkshire
village Leyburn but the Leybornes are principally
identified with Leyborne Castle, and Leeds
;
Castle in Kent, both of which belonged to them.
Roger Leyborne was succeeded by his eldest
son, William, who was summoned amongst the
Barons of the realm from 27th Edward I. to
3rd Edward III. Probably this is the name
mentioned in the Carlaverock Roll, in words
which seem so concisely and yet so graphically
to set before us a truly sterling character:
" Guillemes de Leybourne aussi
Vaillans horns sans mes, et sans si,
Baniere i ot o larges pans
Inde o sis blanc lyons rampans."
Thus translated: "William de Leybourne, a valiant man, without but,
" without if,
had there a banner and a large pennon of blue, with six white
"lions rampant."
The same charge, differently tinctured, viz., on a field argent six
lioncels rampant, sable, was borne by the family of Savage, In Drake's
York there are the following notices of the family of Savage, viz.: