Jessant-de-lys

Charles Boutell (1863)[2] described the charge thus: "A leopard's face affrontée, resting upon a fleur-de-lys, and having the lower part of the flower issuing from the animal's mouth".

[9] The arms of William de Cantilupe (died 1254) are listed even earlier in the Glover's Roll as: Gules, three fleurs-de-lys or.

The antiquarian John Nichols (d.1826) in his History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester[11] records a deed dated 1215 relating to the first William de Cantilupe's manor of Brentingby, Leicestershire, on which the seal is three fleurs-de-lys circumscribed.

The episcopal seal of St Thomas still shows however the arms of "Cantilupe ancient" in the form of two groups of three fleurs-de-lys either side of a figure of the standing bishop.

The second quarter of the De La Warr coat of arms is blazoned thus: Azure, 3 leopard's faces reversed jessant-de-lys or.

A leopard's face jessant-de-lys
Arms of St Thomas Cantilupe (died 1282), Bishop of Hereford: Gules, three leopard's faces reversed jessant-de-lys or
Arms of Woodforde: Sable, three leopard's faces reversed argent jessant-de-lys gules , known to have been feudal tenants of a Cantilupe at Brentingby , Leicestershire [ 12 ]