The Herald and genealogist . ee colts, courant, have ever since been boineby the family of Coulthart as an armorial ensign. We need scarcely say, after all that has been stated on that point informer numbers of this periodical, that we consider this epoch too early forthe origin of armorial bearings: and in the present case the anachronism isthe more obvious, since it is placed two generations before the surname ofCoulthart itself was established: for Alfred used none, nor his son Godo-fredus: and we are told that it was his grandson, Sir Radulphus de Coult-hart, who first used the territorial
The Herald and genealogist . ee colts, courant, have ever since been boineby the family of Coulthart as an armorial ensign. We need scarcely say, after all that has been stated on that point informer numbers of this periodical, that we consider this epoch too early forthe origin of armorial bearings: and in the present case the anachronism isthe more obvious, since it is placed two generations before the surname ofCoulthart itself was established: for Alfred used none, nor his son Godo-fredus: and we are told that it was his grandson, Sir Radulphus de Coult-hart, who first used the territorial designation as a surname. He was alsothe first Crusader of his family. Still later by three generations we meet with an addition to the armoriallegend. When Sir Roger de Coulthart had highly distinguished himself ina tournament held at Haddington in 1240, King Alexander II. per-sonally invested him with the knightly girdle, and heraldically added tothe three black colts courant on his silver shield a fess sable, which armo-. THE COULTHARTS OF COULTHART. 19 rial ensigns have ever since, without alteration, been borne by the chiefs ofthe family. The wife of Sir Koger was Isabella Stewart, a daughter ofWalter the Steward of Scotland. The earliest seal bearing thearms now known to exist is at-tached to a charter granted by alater Sir Roger de Coulthart, in1443, to his brother-in-lawRobertde Agnewof thelandsof Fellmorein Galloway. This seal is said tobe still remarkably legend is unusual in formand position, mentioning only thesurname and not the personalname of its owner. The sup-porters form a rebus of the name—a colt, attired as a war-horse, and a hart, gorged with a coronet. The father of this Roger, Sir Gilbert, died in 1391 at Dantzick, in theservice of Prussia against the Turks; and for some generations after, thefate of each successive head of the family is remarkable. Sir Roger fell atthe siege of Roxburgh castle in 1460; Sir Roger, his son, was killed atSauc
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