Nelson Family Crest - Horatio Nelson

Nelson Family Crest - Digital Download - Nelson Coat of Arms JPG File - Heraldry, Genealogy, Ancestry, Surnames, Shields

Digital Download - Nelson Coat of Arms
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Heraldic/Genealogical Details:

Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson (1758-1805), Royal naval officer whose inspirational leadership, grasp of strategy and unconventional tactics brought about a number of decisive British naval victories during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, elevated to the Peerage as Viscount Nelson and Duke of Bronte, son of Rev. Edmund Nelson (1722-1802), Rector of Burnham Thorpe, co. Norfolk - Or a cross flory sable a bend gules surmounted by another engr. of the field, charged with three bombs tired proper on a chief (of honourable augmentation) undulated argent waves of the sea, from which a palm tree issuant between a disabled ship on the dexter, and a battery in ruins on the sinister all proper. Crests: On the dexter (as a crest of honourable augmentation), on a naval crown or, the chelengk, or plume of triumph, presented to Horatio, Viscount Nelson, by the Grand Signior, or Sultan, Selim III; and on the sinister the family crest, viz., on a wreath of the colours, upon waves of the sea, the stem of a Spanish man of war all proper thereon inscribed “San Joseff”. Supporters: Dexter, a sailor armed with a cutlass and a pair of pistols in his belt proper the right hand supporting a staff, thereon hoisted a commodore’s flag gules and in his left a palm branch proper; sinister, a lion rampant reguardant in his mouth two broken flag-staffs proper flowing from one a Spanish flag or and gules and from the other a tri-coloured flag, in his dexter paw a palm branch proper. Motto—Palmam qui meruit ferat (Let him who has earned it bear the palm).