Edward Chichester, 1st Viscount Chichester, was an English peer.
Edward Chichester (died 1648), Effigy in Eggesford Church, Devon. He wears the Coronet of a viscount
Arms of Chichester of Eggesford: Chequy or and gules, a chief vair a crescent sable for difference
Monument to Edward Chichester (1568–1648), 1st Viscount Chichester, and his wife Anne Copleston (1588–1616), Eggesford Church, Devon. The heraldic achievement above shows an escutcheon of Chichester impaling Copleston, with the supporters of Chichester, two wolves and the Chichester crest of a heron rising with an eel in her beak proper. The Latin motto of Chichester is: Invitum Sequitur Honor, literally translated as "Honour follows against one's will", rendered generally as "Honour is awarded when unsought"
Heraldic escutcheon from monument to Edward, 1st Viscount Chichester (1568–1648), and his wife Anne Copleston (1588–1616), Eggesford Church, Devon. Arms of Chichester impaling Copleston: Baron: Chequy or and gules, a chief vair a crescent sable for difference (Chichester); Feme: Argent, a chevron engrailed gules between three lion's faces azure (Copleston), surmounted by the coronet of a viscount showing 9 of its 16 pearls. The difference of a crescent indicates the arms of a second son
Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, was an Anglo-Irish military officer, politician and peer.
Edward Chichester, 1st Viscount Chichester
…daughter and heiress of John Copleston Esq., (died 1606) of Eggesford by his wife Dorothy Biston (died 29 July 1601). They had the following children: Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall (1606–1674) the eldest son. Col. John Chichester (died 1647), a Royalist during the Civil War, who married Mary Jones, eldest daughter of Roger Jones…
Monument to the two first wives of Arthur, 1st Earl of Donegall (1606–1674/5), Eggesford Church, Devon.