Margaret Poyne

Document from Leche House, Cheshire

Arms - Erm. on a chief indented, or three ducal coronets gu. quartering CAWARDEN, viz sa. a sling between two pheons arg.

From an old parchment at CARDEN [1] , emblazed with the arms of Carden and Leche, which thus commences, "Richard Viscount of Avranches in Normandy, married Margaret daughyer to Her. Poyne, a nobleman, by Arlotta, his wife, mother unto King William the Conqueror, and which carries down the pedigree to 1613: the following description of the armorial bearings is extracted: The present cate of the ancient family, one wherof living in Barkshire, near WIndsor, in ye time of King Edward III, three kings were entertained and feasted in this house, one ye King of England,ye King of France,and ye King of Scotts,which at that time two Kings prisoners to King Edward; which King Edward to requite his entertainment

and other favours, gave him three crowns on his chief indented gu. ye field ermine, which coate is borne by the name and family dispersed into many other countrays, as Bedfordshire, Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Cheshire, Lancashire, and many other places at this day".

[1] A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and ..., By John Burke,1835, p365