Some of this is faint but you can still read the Sir names of the families attached to them..remember these are coat of arms of founders of families they were the ones who commissioned these crest.
The surnames w/locale include (top to bottom and left to right)
More de Maine, More de Beavoisis, More de Paris, More el Flandre, Morel Forez, Morel Lorr Morel Bourg, Morelet des Forges Bourg, Morell Berne Land(…), Morel Paris, Morel Fatio Pide Vaud, Morel de Duesme Bourg Morel de Damas Art, Morel Tourais(..), Morell Vienne, Morelli Bologne, Moor Lubeck, Moor Anvers Moor de Gand Middelbour, Moor de van Imerzeel Flandre, Moorkant Holl, Moorman Frise, Moorrees Gueldre Utrecht Moorand Baron (..)lointe, Mordeysen Saxe, Moreau d’Oliban Bourg, Moreau Liege, Moreau Limb, Moreau de Bo(..)epos Bresse Dauphin
David MacRitchie published this image of a “Norman knight” and his fair lady:
Cover illustration: A Black Norman knight, with his lady. From the Heraldic Collection of Sir Thomas Wriothesley, Garter King-of-Arms, 1504-1534
Ancient and Modern Britons Vols I & II, by David MacRitchie first published in London in 1884
Sir Morien King Arthur’s Knights of the Round Table
The romance begins with the story of Morien’s conception. While searching for Lancelot thirteen years prior, Aglovale had traveled through the Moorish lands and fallen in love with a beautiful princess. They pledged their betrothal, but refusing to abandon his quest before Lancelot was located, Aglovale left the country before they could marry. He left her pregnant with his son Morien, who would grow into a tall, handsome youth “black of face and limb.”[3] Of his prowess, the romance says that Sir Morien’s “blows were so mighty; did a spear fly towards him, to harm him, it troubled him no whit, but he smote it in twain as if it were a reed; naught might endure before him.” Of his dress, it says that “[h]is shield and his armour were even those of a Moor, and black as a raven.
THE MARQUESSES OF DROGHEDA WERE THE PENULTIMATE LANDOWNERS IN COUNTY KILDARE WITH 16,609 ACRES
From two brothers, SIR EDWARD and SIR THOMAS MOORE, knights (descendants of the Moores of Moore Place, Kent), who went over to Ireland, in the reign of ELIZABETH I, sprang the house of Drogheda and the extinct house of Charleville and Tullamore.
SIR EDWARD MOORE, the elder brother, obtained, for his services, from the Queen, a lease of the dissolved abbey of Mellefont, with its appurtenances, County Louth, which he made the principal place of his abode; and so it continued that of his descendants until their removal to Moore Abbey, County Kildare, the seat of the Viscounts Loftus of Ely, which devolved upon the Earl of Drogheda.
Sir Edward’s surviving son Garret was created 1st Viscount Moore.
The 1st and 3rd Marquesses of Drogheda were Knights of St Patrick (KP). The 11th Earl was a Knight of the Garter. It is notable that the crest of the Moore family is a Moor’s head.
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And you can look at the book of Heraldry and find the families to match.
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This presentation by Dr. Jose Pimienta-Bey is a fantastic account of who the Moors were, how they gained power in the Iberian Pennisula today know as Spain and Portugal and even more importantly, how they lost power. Many of us dont know that African (Moors) along with Arabs, ruled Spain from 711 A.D. 1492 A.D. They made considerable contributions to Europe who was going through the Dark Ages.
The Moors contributed to science, medicine, Art, Mathematics, Agriculture, etc.
