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DINGLEY Coats of Arms
The Dingley/Dyneley arms seem to come in two similar, but distinct forms:
| A. | Argent, a fess sable and in chief a mullet [gules] between two pellets [roundels] sable |
| B. | Argent, a Fess, and three mullet sable [the middlemost pierced at the field] |
1. IoW
Form A. The Coat of Arms of Sir John DINGLEY (1589-1670) is shown in the Hampshire and IoW heralds' visitations [Hants. Visitation]. They are quartered as
| 1. | Dingley | Argent, a fess sable and in chief a mullet gules between two pellets |
| 2. | Wolverton | Azure, a chevron between three wolf's heads erased or |
| 3. | Cresswell | Azure, a fess between three chaplets or |
| 4. | Lunsford | Azure, a chevron between three boars' heads couped or |
2. Hants
2.1. Form A. The Coat of Arms of Thomas DINGLEY (1619-) of Southampton [Life T Dingley]
| 1. | [Dingley] | Argent, a fess sable and in chief a mullet between two pellets of the last |
| 2. | Hopton | impaling Gules, crusilly fitchy and a lion rampant or |
2.2. Form A. Sir John BAKER of Sissinghurst (1488-1558) married a descendant (Elizabeth, 1500-1550) of Robert DINGLEY of Kingsclere, and DYNELEY arms are mentioned in Sir John's arms in the Essex Visitations under BARRETT. These DYNELEY arms are not described in the Essex Visitations, but are described under BAKER in the Kent Visitation of 1619:
| 2. | Argent, a fess, and in chief a mullet between two annulets, all sable. |
2.3. Form B. A monumental inscription on the tomb of Nicholas DARRELL, dated 1629, in Winchester Cathedral gives the following [Hants. Visitation 1686]. I do not know his ancestry, although the inscription includes the words (in latin) "offspring of New College, a part of this church, grandson of Bishop Horn of Winchester by his daughter...".
| 1 & 4. | Darrell | A lion rampant ducally crowned |
| 2 & 3. | Dinely | A fess dancetty and in chief 3 mullets |
2.4. Form A. The 1683 tomb of Elizabeth DINGLEY in Winchester Cathedral shows Arms of a mullet between two pellets. She was the wife of Charles DINGLEY Esq. the son of Sir John DINGLEY of Wolverton, IoW.
3. Kent
Form A & B? The Coat of Arms Thomas DINGLEY (al's DYNLEY) of Faversham [Kent Visitation]
| 1. | Dingley | Argent, a fess sable, in chief a mullet of the last between two pellets |
| 2. | Ermine, three chess rooks, two and one | |
| 3. | Gules, a saltire engrailed argent between four mullets or | |
| 4. | Argent, a fesse gules, in chief three mullets sable | |
| 5. | Gules, a frette ermine | |
| 6. | St. Nicholas | Ermine, a chief quarterly or and gules |
| 7. | Sable, a fesse argent between three mullets pierced or | |
| 8. | Or, on a cross gules a cinquefoil | |
| 9. | Per pale azure and gules a lion rampant ermine | |
| 10. | Argent, a lion rampant gules | |
| 11. | ... a lion rampant, crowned ... between three mullets... | |
| 12. | Argent, three leaves slipped, each bendwise, in bend sinister gules, on a canton ... three crescents |
4. Lancs
5. London
Modified Form A. There is a picture of the memorial for Robert DINGLEY at St. Helens, Bishopsgate - see link. It shows Arms of a mullet between two roundels, azure which, apart from the colour, is the same as the Arms of the DINGLEYs from IoW, Hants. and Worcs.
6. Surrey
Form A. The tomb of Sir William More has the arms of More impaling Dingley [VCH Surrey]. Sir William married a daughter of Mark DINGLEY of Wolverton (IoW) and Chislehurst.
| Dingley | Argent a fesse with a molet between two roundels sable in the chief |
7. Worcestershire
Form A. Dineley of Cropthorne [Nash]
| [Dineley] | Argent, a Fess, and in chief a mullet sable between two pellets |
8. Yorks
Form B. Dyneleys of Bramhope [Loidis & Elemete]
| [Dyneley] | Argent, a Fess, and three Mullet Sable the middlemost pierced at the field |