PARRY Family History

Quartered Coat of Arms for the Jones-Parry family of Madryn Castle, and Llwyn Onn

There are sixteen quarterings listed by Nicolas, the first one being the final quartering in the above image (layout of the description modified from the proper blazoning, in order to make it more understandable to those who, like me, are not experts in heraldic terminology):

1. Quarterly
   
   1. Arg. a fesse between 3 lozenges, az. (Moreiddig o'r Dyffryn aur) - PARRY
   2. Quarterly
      
      1. Ermine, a lion rampant, sa. (Cynric ap Rhiwallon)
      2. Per bend sinister, ermine and ermines, a lion rampant, or (Tudor Trevor)
      3. Per bend sinister, ermine and ermines, a lion rampant, or (Tudor Trevor)
      4. Ermine, a lion rampant, sa. (Cynric ap Rhiwallon)
   3. Quarterly
      
      1. Ermine, a lion rampant, sa. (Cynric ap Rhiwallon)
      2. Per bend sinister, ermine and ermines, a lion rampant, or (Tudor Trevor)
      3. Per bend sinister, ermine and ermines, a lion rampant, or (Tudor Trevor)
      4. Ermine, a lion rampant, sa. (Cynric ap Rhiwallon)
   4. Arg. a fesse between 3 lozenges, az. (Moreiddig o'r Dyffryn aur) - PARRY
2. Ermine, a lion rampant, sa. - JONES
3. Arg., a chevron sa. on chief of the second, three martlets fesseways of the first. - WYLDE of Bersham
4. Arg. a fesse between 3 lozenges, az. - PARRY
5. Vert, a hart trippant, arg., attired and unguled, or. - HUGHES of Cefnllanfair
6. Gu., a saracen's head erased at neck, wreathed round temples, or. - WYNN of Wernfawr
7. Quarterly: gu. and or, four lions passants, guardants, counterchanged - Prince Llewelyn Ap IORWERTH
8. Quarterly: 1st and 4th sa., a chevron between 3 fleurs de lis, arg.; 2nd and 3rd arg., a chevron az. Between 3 nags' heads erased, sa. - MADRIN of Madryn
9. Sa., a chevron between 3 fleurs de lis, arg. - WINN of Penarth-Fawr
10. Gu., a chevron ermine between 3 Saxons' heads - EDNYFED FYCHAN
11. Or., a corbeau (raven), ppr., a crescent gu. in middle chief for difference - CORBET.
12. Gu., semee of crosses pattees fichees, and a lion rampant, or. - HOPTON
13. Or, a lion rampant regardant sa., a crescent gu. for difference in middle chief - PRYSE of Gogerddan
14. Ermine, a saltire gu., thereon a mullet arg. - WINN of Ynys-y-Maengwyn
15. Gu. between 3 lioncels rampant, a chevron or. - LEWIS of Llysdulas
16. Vert, 3 eaglets, displayed in fesse, or - Prince Owain GWYNEDD

Four crests are also ascribed to the family:

1. On a torse arg. and az. a sheaf of Danish axes, 3 paleways and 2 in saltire, environed with a wreath of laurel ppr., hafts gu., heads ppr. - PARRY
2. On a chapeau gu., turned up ermine, a demi-lion rampant, or. - JONES
3. On a torse, arg. and vert, a hart trippant, arg., attired and unguled, or. - HUGHES
4. On a torse, arg. and sa., a nag's head erased of the second. - MADRYN

And three mottoes are given:

1. Heb Dduw heb ddim; Duw a digon - PARRY
2. Gofal dyn Duwa'i gwerid - JONES
3. Nil desperandum - HUGHES

In a later account (Burke's Landed Gentry, Vol. II), the Arms for the Jones-Parry family of Llwyn Onn are given as "Arg., a fesse engrailed between four lozenges three and one az." The differences to the above could be as a result of a later Grant of Arms to the family.