Heraldry at Belleek Co Mayo - The Gore-Knox family

The Gores were Cromwellian settlers who were granted land in the Ballina area. The Knoxs originated in Scotland and settled in Mayo when William Knox from Lifford purchased lands at Castlerea in Killala. The marriage of Mary Gore, niece of Arthur Gore, Earl of Arran to Francis Knox meant these families were linked since then. Their coat of arms became quartered with the arms of Gore quartering those of Knox. Their son, James Knox, married his first cousin, Maria Louise Gore. James's maternal grandfather, Paul Ainsley Gore, had stipulated that James must assume the additional arms and surname of Gore in order to inherit his estate and hence the family name Knox-Gore was established. 

There is a detailed article by Martin Leonard at

 https://westernpeople.ie/2022/01/22/the-family-who-built-belleek/

see also:

 https://www.belleekcastle.com/history.html

The coat of arms consisting of nine quarters is very interesting, it can be a challenge to identify all the families involved. Often some of the obscure arms belong to families of heiresses who married in several centuries previously, this is the case here. 

Taken from:

https://www.facebook.com/BelleekCastle/posts/the-knox-gore-coat-of-armsfound-on-the-front-of-the-building-over-portcullis-sty/963456097050341/

The coat of arms in the first quarter carries the arms of Gore quartered with those of Knox due to the marriage of Mary Gore and Francis Knox.

The next four coats come from ancient marriages that can be found by looking at the Knox pedigree. 

These coats are Fleming (Wigmore), Fraser, Maxwell and Dennison or Denniston.

see:

http://www.heraldry-scotland.co.uk/mackenzie.html

For Maxwell see:

https://www.heraldry-online.org.uk/maxwell.html

1) Quarterly 1st & 4th Argent a saltire Sable within a bordure counter-compony of the second and first 2nd & 3rd Argent a bend Azure.

Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert Denniston, married Sir Robert Maxwell of Calderwood in the same year that her sister married into the family of Kilmaurs. She took with her as her dowry, among other estates, the free barony of Newark

https://electricscotland.com/history/renfrew/chapter24.htm

Here is a summary of all the coats of arms

The final coat of arms is Gore and the other three come through the Annesley family there were are a few connections for Annesley and the other two are again are through heiresses on the Annesley side: