Cuthbert

 

BLAZON OF ARMS:
Argent three chevrons sable on each five bezants.

CREST:
On a heart gules an eagle's claw erased at the thigh

Comment: Description doesn't seem to match the Coat of arms very well [KTB]

The Cuthbert Motto:

Nec minus fortiter- Not less bravely

The Landed Gentry Inverness-shire family of CUTHBERT is said to have been originally from Northumberland.
However family records have been destroyed or dispersed because of English invasions etc,.

Source of description:
Family Names from the Burke's General Armory - 1,500 blazons (heraldic descriptions): C
www.luz-herald.net/free/BURKE_S/SURNAMES_BEGINNING_WITH_THE16.HTM

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