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English: Argent, a lion rampant gules, debruised by a bend raguly or. Augmentation to the arms of Steward given by the French King Charles VI (1368-1422) to Sir Alexander Steward, for service done by his father Andrew Steward to that king and to the king of Scots, and also to John the French king, grand-father to Charles VI.

Evidently alludes to the following event. An armed knight foughtwith a lion, and having broken his sword, which lay in fragments at his feet, snatched up a rude club with which he combatted the beast. In allusion to this, in some books the following crest is given to the Steward family A sword broken in two, the pieces placed in saltire on a wreath, and surmounting a ragged staff erecly or. (Source: Archaeologia: Or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, 1777, pp.183-5[1])

Hence, arms of the Steward family of Swardeston (Visitation of Suffolk 1561): Argent, a lion rampant gules, debruised by a bend raguly or. See also pedigree in 1563 Visitation of Norfolk (Dashwood, G. H., ed. (1878). The Visitation of Norfolk in the year 1563, taken by William Harvey, Clarenceux King of Arms: Volume 1. Norwich, pp.19-20[2])
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