Roland Durant - St Peter - Barrowden, Rutland - Coats of Arms on Waymarking.com

Durant coat of arms on this elaborate memorial to Roland Durant (d.1588) in St Peter's church, Barrowden.

"beautiful Renaissance freestone monument to Rowland Durant (d. 1588) is now on the north wall of the north aisle, opposite the entrance: its chief motive is a large coat-of-arms with helm and mantling, and the entablature is supported by Ionic pilasters.

Before 1875 the monument was on the east wall of the north aisle, partly hidden by a monument to Edmund Munton, 1831. The Munton tomb was restored to its original position in the churchyard in 1875, and the Durant monument placed where it now is."

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The inscription reads -
ROLANDVS DVRANT
ARMIGER ETATIS SEPTVAGINTA
OBIIT XVIII DIE APRILIS
ANNO DIXII 1588

"b. by 1516, s. of John Durrant of Barrowden and Cottesmore. m. Dorothy, 1s. 2da. suc. fa. 26 Nov. 1552.

Roland Durrant’s grandfather had acquired a moderate estate in Barrowden, Luffenham and Morcott, and his father, an escheator in Northamptonshire and Rutland, added land in Burley and Cottesmore. Durrant succeeded to these properties in 1552 and in the general pardon which he sued out in 1559 he was described as of Barrowden and late of Rockingham on the Northamptonshire border of Rutland. With Stamford, the borough for which he was elected to the second Marian Parliament, Durrant had no known connexion, and since on this occasion the crown asked for the return of residents he must have had powerful backing there. His most likely patron was Cecil, who since his own return for Stamford in 1547 had had a hand in almost every election there, but as no link between the two has been traced other than Durrant’s tenancy of land held of Barrowden manor, which Cecil had recently acquired, this explanation must remain tentative.

Durrant was not to sit again nor does he appear to have made any mark locally. In a muster list of 1569 he appears among a number of Rutlandshire gentry who each owned only one long bow. A monumental inscription with coat of arms in Barrowden church records his death in 1588. He was succeeded by his son George who died six years later, when administration of Durrant’s goods was granted to his widow Dorothy."

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Bearer of Coat of Arms: Burgher (used by famous commoner) Full name of the bearer: Roland Durant Where is Coat of Arms installed (short description) ?: north aisle of church Material / Design: Stone Blazon (heraldic description): Sable a cross formy ermine. Address: St Peter Church Lane Barrowden, Rutland England LE15 8ED Web page about the structure where is Coat of Arms installed (if exists): [Web Link] Web page about the bearer of Coat of Arms (if exists): [Web Link]

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