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Babbington Coat of Arms / Babbington Family CrestThe surname of BABBINGTON was a locational name 'of Babbington' a parish in County Somerset, five or six miles from Frome. Also hamlets, Great and Little Babington, near Hexham, County Northumberland. Local names usually denoted where a man held his land, and indicated where he actually lived. Early records of the name mention BABINTONE (without surname) who was recorded in the year 1200, County Northumberland. Hugh de Babintone appeared in the year 1273 in County Derbyshire. Walter de Babbington was documented in County Nottingham in the year 1377. Henricus de Babbyngton, of Yorkshire was listed in the Yorkshire Poll Tax of 1379. Henry Babington of County Oxford, registered at Oxford University in the year 1597. During the Middle Ages, when people were unable to read or write, signs were needed for all visual identification. For several centuries city streets in Britain were filled with signs of all kinds, public houses, tradesmen and even private householders found them necessary. This was an age when there were no numbered houses, and an address was a descriptive phrase that made use of a convenient landmark. At this time, coats of arms came into being, for the practical reason that men went into battle heavily armed and were difficult to recognise. It became the custom for them to adorn their helmets with distinctive crests, and to paint their shields with animals and the like. Coats of arms accompanied the development of surnames, becoming hereditary in the same way. 'Anthony Babington (1561-86) was the leader of a Catholic conspiracy against Queen Elizabeth I. He was descended from John le Babington, owner of the district around Mickel and Little Babbington in County Northumberland'.The associated coat of arms is recorded in Sir Bernard Burkes General Armory. Ulster King of Arms in 1884. Registered in East Brigford, County Nottingham. |
