From the forest to the fret
Every version of the coat from its inception. The stags are born in Wirral greenwood. The gold lattice is born on a Staffordshire keep. They are siblings, not the same shield. In 1316 the Stanley grant of three stags' heads legally forbade the cadet from wearing the Audley fret.
Audley arms explained: gules, a fret or
Gules, a fret or. Two narrow gold bands cross like an X. Two more weave over and under them through a hollow diamond, the way a bit of trellis does. Red field, gold lattice. That is Heighley. The three stags are the younger line, usually counted from a Talk-for-Stanleigh charter placed about 1170–1200. This hall uses 1192 as the working year. They share a twelfth-century ancestor. They do not share a shield.
The motto of the later Barons Audley, the Tuchet line, is Je le tiens. I hold it.
Before heraldry — Gamel
A green field, a golden star — the thane's mark before heraldry.
Overlord's livery
Azure, a pile or — livery of the overlord, not yet a house of its own.
Henry de Audley — the lattice
Gules, a fret or. The lattice of Heighley.
1408 — the new surname
Ermine, a chevron gules.
The marshalled barony
Quarterly: 1st & 4th ermine a chevron gules (Tuchet); 2nd & 3rd gules a fret or (Audley).
1284 / 1316 — Wirral forest
Argent, on a bend azure three stags' heads caboshed or. Born in the Wirral forest, 1284.
Cadet scythe & Poitiers lily
A scythe (sned) and a fleur-de-lys of Poitiers.
1405 — Lord of Mann
The Manx trisceles in gold on gules — lordship of the island, 1405.