Siddle Olde English Coat of Arms This is the ancient "olde English" coat of arms of the Siddle family. The Sydal family first became known in Lancashire, to the North West of England, where there is still  Siddal Moor from a phonetic spelling of another branch of the family.  The age of the Coat of arms is unknown although it is known to date back to a time before the 15 th century at least. Basically the Siddils were an original British saxon adopted family who once fought against the Danish viking Army in East England. There are a number of phonetic spellings of surnames for the same family. This being because spellings were only standardised in Great Britain in the 1700's or there abouts. Accordingly even a father could have his surname registered as a different spelling to a son, on baptismal and wedding records ,before the 1700's. The Siddle family are known to go back to at least  4th century England in origin from a time when England was called Albion still.   The surname Siddle is ancient and goes back to a Mesopotamian Phoenician language root word which was Sidi/Siddhe. The word Sidi/Siddhe is Indo-European and indicates a localised leader and/or spiritual supervisor. The modern version "Siddle" just went on to mean sides men or a Side seam of coal in the mining industry. This being mainly because Phoenician Sidi/Siddhe were sides men to the country's ruler before the Roman invasions. The original version Sidi/Siddhe started in Wessex to the South of Britain. There is a Coat of arms dedicated to the Sidi of Wessex in East/West Sussex who later on became Saxon leaders under Sidel and fought against the Danes of Eastern England.  In  it's original form the letter "s" was pronounced as "Sh". So the Surname was originally either pronounced Sheeee or in latter centuries probably more as Sheeeeda / Sheeedel. There is evidence to suggest that the Sidi/Siddhe were tribal leaders in early Britain before the Saxons and before the Romans however.  The Siddle Coat of Arms is currently in use by Sir Andrew Siddle who is a property Consultant and land and property policy academic. There may be other descendants who still use it as well within England.  Under the Heraldic rules of the Royal College of Arms, for England and Wales, a coat of arms must either be :- 1) Matriculated by making a payment to the Royal College of Arms to register a right to use it.  2) Family members, and descendants, have an automatic feudal hereditary right to use a  coat of arms. In Scotland the law is slightly different and Heraldic rules are administered by the Lord Lyon for Scotland through the Heraldic Court. No coat of arms may be used in Scotland without first matriculating it, by making a payment, to the Lord Lyon at the HM Heraldic Court for Scotland.
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