Thomas Arundell of Wardour

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The Armorial Bearings of the Counts and Barons Arundell of Wardour of the Holy Roman Empire. www.ArundellCounts.com

The Association of ArundelI Counts and Countesses of the Holy Roman Empire - To the Claimants and Descendants of Thomas Arundell, 1st Count Arundell of Wardour of the Holy Roman Empire - All descendants of the 1st Count Thomas Arundell of Wardour, have the Universal Right to the formal usage of the Imperial Titles of Count or Countess of the Holy Roman Empire, being issued within the Imperial Letters Patent dated the 14th day of December in the year of Our Lord 1595 by Decree of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II.

The Association of Arundell Counts and Countesses of the Holy Roman Empire under the authority and sanction of the Chancellor of the Holy Roman Empire Association has granted by Decree and Letters, the right of usage of the appellation style and title of Excellency, upon all descendants of the 1st Count Thomas Arundell of Wardour, who may formally Petition the Association through the HREA for full recognition of their rights to the Imperial Titles of Count or Countess of the Holy Roman Empire, and to be listed upon the official register of the Imperial Rolls of the Nobility of the Holy Roman Empire, which will be granted with full rights of usage to the Armorial Bearings of the aforementioned 1st Count Thomas Arundell of Wardour, by sanction and decree of the Holy Roman Empire Association / HREA.

Those Claimants and Descendants of 1st Count Thomas Arundell of Wardour who wish to petition for the Imperial Rank and Title of Count or Countess of the Holy Roman Empire together with the formal appellation of His or Her Excellency / H.E., Please send your petition to HREA.

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The Imperial Letters Patent dated the 14th day of December in the year of Our Lord 1595 by Decree of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II, granting the Title of Imperial Count of the Holy Roman Empire upon Thomas Arundell of Wardour. www.ArundellCounts.com

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The Armorial Bearings of the Counts and Barons Arundell of Wardour of the Holy Roman Empire. www.ArundellCounts.com

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The Arms of Arundell, Baron Talbot of Malahide. www.ArundellCounts.com

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Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour (c. 1560–7 November 1639), was an English nobleman and the first Roman Catholic ennobled after the Reformation. Son of Sir Matthew Arundell, he fought for Emperor Rudolf II against the Turks and became a Count of the Holy Roman Empire in 1595. Queen Elizabeth I disapproved of his foreign title, which led to his brief imprisonment. Under King James I, he was created Baron Arundell of Wardour in 1605. www.ArundellCounts.com

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The Association of the Arundell Counts and Countesses of the Holy Roman Empire - Seat of the Counts and Barons Arundell of Wardour - New Wardour Castle is a Grade I listed English country house at Wardour, near Tisbury in Wiltshire, built for the Arundell family. The house is of Palladian style, designed by the architect James Paine, with additions by Giacomo Quarenghi, who was a principal architect of the Imperial Russian capital city, Saint Petersburg.

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A funerary hatchment with the arms of the 11th Baron Arundell of Wardour, Count of the Holy Roman Empire and his wife Lady Frances Catharine Tichborne, Baroness Arundell of Wardour, Countess of the Holy Roman Empire.

The Arms of Arundell quartering Chideocke, another, and Howard quarterly, with in pretence an escutcheon with the arms of Smythe quarterly, impaling Tichborne; the shield, beneath a baron's coronet, supported by a lion rampant gardant ducally crowned and an owl ducally crowned; all on the double-headed eagle of a Count of the Holy Roman Empire.

These arms show the descent of the Arundell family through Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour (c. 1560-1639), himself descended from a family settled in Cornwall since the 12th century, who had served the Imperial army at Gran in Hungary. For his heroism in capturing the standard of the Turks he was created a Count of the Holy Roman Empire in 1595 by Rudolf II, the Holy Roman Emperor (r. 1576-1612). On his return to England Arundell was elevated to the Peerage in 1605 as Baron Arundell of Wardour.

His descendant, Henry Benedict Arundell, born 1804, married firstly in 1826 Lucy Smythe, who died the following year, and secondly in 1829 Frances-Catherine, second daughter of Sir Henry Tichborne, Bart., by whom he had two sons. He succeeded his brother as the 11th Lord Arundell of Wardour in 1834.

This hatchment, which is painted black behind the impalement for the funeral of Lady Arundell, was made following the death of Frances-Catherine on the 19 April, 1836.

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