All of the all of the text below and the first two shields were found on the New Zealand Le Grice site, the third shield on GriceOnline, and the last on Bill Grice's web site. Everything was copied to this site as a backup. Carl
This Coat of Arms is a "single" coat of arms, meaning it is purely a Le Grice one and not superimposed by other Coats of Arms of families that have married into the family.
There are several "differenced " coats with gold borders, reversed blue and red quarters, crowns around the crests neck and golden tusks and trotters. All of these relate to different members of the family, usually from the 16th and 17th century.
The last change was in the 1930s when a separate shield was granted to Charles Le Grice of Cornwall
and the red and blue were changed into stripes and the boars courant have white spots.
There are several Church stained blass windows mainly in Norfolk that have the coat incorporated into other family coats, showing marriages.
We are all entitled to use informally any of the family shields except the specific one still in use by the Cornish family of Le Grices. This shield shows a blue and red quartered shield, crossed with a grey or silver stripe and on it three running boars. The College of Heralds believes this could be a double reference to both grey and pig breeding.
On the helm at the top of the shield is another running boar, this one with bigger
shoulders and tusks and hooves of gold.
The shoulders denote fierceness and stubborn determination, often seen as just that in some members of the modern families, always moving forward without care of danger or pain. The crest sits on a rolled scarf, and the boar has no collar. Both these are symbolic of free men.
The motto is simply "In Deo Confido", In God I Trust.