Coats of Arms

There has long been a family tradition that the de Valmency family used to have a coat of arms, and Alexander de Valmency was reputed to have used the coat of arms on the headed note-paper for his dental practice.

Many people have said that they've seen it; some in a book, others on a family seal, but many searches conducted via several heraldic research companies have thus far proved fruitless.

Shown on the right are three coats of arms and their heraldic descriptions (blazons) that are supposed to have been borne by someone with the name 'de Valmency' - 'or an etymological derivative thereof'.

This last phrase is used to cover the backs of the heraldic research companies and, loosely translated, means 'we can't find your name as having been granted arms, so here's one that belonged to a family with a name that sounds similar to yours'.

A Breakthrough?

Many people have told me that Joan de Valmency was once in possession of the 'seal' (although she apparently denied ever having it), and a number of family members recall having seen, or been given a wax impression of the arms.

Well...at last John de Valmency has unearthed a long-misplaced sketch of the arms, made for him by Joan a number of years before her death, and these appear at the top of the arms shown on the right.

Two coats of arms that are supposed to have been for the de Valmency name:

Blazon:
Per fess: the first gules, a decrescent argent: the second argent, three mountains vert, each surmounted by an estoile of five points. A chief gules semee of estoiles argent.