History and genealogy of the Stackpole family . e Edenvale branchof the family, in Ireland, assumed it some time ago, atfirst without the gold collar, and have added a crest, viz.,On a ducal coronet a pelican in her piety, all ppr , apelican feeding in their nest three of her young with dropsof blood drawn from her own breast, according to an oldlegend. Under the Arms is the motto, PRO DEO ET PROPATRIA; over the crest, I DIE FOR THOSE I of this family a century ago, either by mistake or asa mark of cadency, reversed the colors and had a silver lionon a red shield. It was told me
History and genealogy of the Stackpole family . e Edenvale branchof the family, in Ireland, assumed it some time ago, atfirst without the gold collar, and have added a crest, viz.,On a ducal coronet a pelican in her piety, all ppr , apelican feeding in their nest three of her young with dropsof blood drawn from her own breast, according to an oldlegend. Under the Arms is the motto, PRO DEO ET PROPATRIA; over the crest, I DIE FOR THOSE I of this family a century ago, either by mistake or asa mark of cadency, reversed the colors and had a silver lionon a red shield. It was told me in Ireland that the origin of the crestwas as follows. Over the door of the Sexten Vault, outsidethe wall of the Pery Chapel of St. Marys Cathedral, Lim-erick, is a corbel in the center flanked to the left with aseven-headed dragon as type of antichrist and to the rightwith a pelican as type of Christ. The bird is pouring itsblood over its dying young to revive them, not feeding themas in the present crest. Both are symbolic, one of the atone-. COAT OF ARMS THE COAT OF ARMS 53 ment, the other of the sacrament. Finding this device onthe burial place of Philip Stacpole the Stacpooles of adopted the good emblem as a crest, and the Englishmotto is, of course, suggested by it and is quite superflu-ous. It has been in use, perhaps, two centuries. In theearliest seal of the family in co. Clare, Ireland, about 1760,the pelicans young are omitted. The Golden Grove Book, a genealogical account of oldfamilies in Wales, owned by Earl Cawdor and kept in Lon-don, gives the ancient Stakepol coat of arms, Argent, threemullets sable. There is no record of its use by anybranch of the family. Edmonsons Complete Body of Heraldry (London, 1780),under the name Stakepoule, gives another coat of arms, chev. ar. betw. three crescents or, on a blue field a sil-ver chevron between three golden crescents. In later workson heraldry this does not appear, and the branch of thefamily that b
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