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Arms of Trefusis: Argent, a chevron between three spindles sable. The spindles are copied from those shown in the Trefusis arms in the Trefusis heraldic window, circa 1822-42, on the grand staircase in Bicton House, Devon. <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trefusis_HeraldicAchievement_BictonHouse_Devon.png" class="image"><img alt="Trefusis HeraldicAchievement BictonHouse Devon.png" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Trefusis_HeraldicAchievement_BictonHouse_Devon.png/50px-Trefusis_HeraldicAchievement_BictonHouse_Devon.png" width="50" height="46" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Trefusis_HeraldicAchievement_BictonHouse_Devon.png/75px-Trefusis_HeraldicAchievement_BictonHouse_Devon.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Trefusis_HeraldicAchievement_BictonHouse_Devon.png/100px-Trefusis_HeraldicAchievement_BictonHouse_Devon.png 2x" data-file-width="1318" data-file-height="1208"></a> These are <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canting_arms&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Canting arms (page does not exist)">canting arms</a>, from French fuseau,<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a> from Latin fusus,<a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a> a spindle, with the Anglo-Saxon place name element "<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tre-_(Anglo-Saxon_place_name_element)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tre- (Anglo-Saxon place name element) (page does not exist)">Tre-</a>" or "Tref-"("hamlet, farmstead, estate") which survives in Wales and the Southwest of England (almost exclusively in Cornwall).<a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a> The manor of Trefusis was thus originally held before the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Norman_Conquest&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Norman Conquest (page does not exist)">Norman Conquest</a> of 1066 by an Anglo-Saxon named "Fusis" or "Usis" or similar, thus "Farmstead of Fusis"
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| current | 23:03, 7 January 2017 | | 924 × 1,064 (77 KB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | Arms of Trefusis: <i>Argent, a chevron between three spindles sable</i>. The spindles are copied from those shown in the Trefusis arms in the Trefusis heraldic window, circa 1822-42, on the grand staircase in Bicton House, Devon. <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trefusis_HeraldicAchievement_BictonHouse_Devon.png" class="image"><img alt="Trefusis HeraldicAchievement BictonHouse Devon.png" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Trefusis_HeraldicAchievement_BictonHouse_Devon.png/50px-Trefusis_HeraldicAchievement_BictonHouse_Devon.png" width="50" height="46" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Trefusis_HeraldicAchievement_BictonHouse_Devon.png/75px-Trefusis_HeraldicAchievement_BictonHouse_Devon.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Trefusis_HeraldicAchievement_BictonHouse_Devon.png/100px-Trefusis_HeraldicAchievement_BictonHouse_Devon.png 2x" data-file-width="1318" data-file-height="1208"></a> These are <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Canting_arms&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Canting arms (page does not exist)">canting arms</a>, from French <i>fuseau</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> from Latin <i>fusus</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup> a spindle, with the Anglo-Saxon place name element "<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tre-_(Anglo-Saxon_place_name_element)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Tre- (Anglo-Saxon place name element) (page does not exist)">Tre-</a>" or "Tref-"("hamlet, farmstead, estate") which survives in Wales and the Southwest of England (almost exclusively in Cornwall).<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup> The manor of Trefusis was thus originally held before the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Norman_Conquest&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Norman Conquest (page does not exist)">Norman Conquest</a> of 1066 by an Anglo-Saxon named "Fusis" or "Usis" or similar, thus "Farmstead of Fusis" |
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