Truelove the "Eyr" or "Heyr" was granted land in
Derby as a reward for his services at the 1066
Battle of Hastings, together with a
coat of arms featuring "a human leg in
armour couped at the thigh quarterly
argent and
sable spurred",[1] in reference to the sacrifice of his limb. Some of these features may persist in one of the current Eyre
coats of arms, which features three gold quatrefoils on a black
chevron with a white background.[2]
Another variation of the story of the origin of the Eyre crest is that Humphrey le Heyr of Bromham rescued
Richard Coeur de Lion at the siege of Ascalon, at the cost of his leg, and that the leg couped was granted to him in remembrance of the occasion.[3]
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