Yate/Yates/Yeates/Yeats Coats of Arms

Burke's "General Armory of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales", Vol. 3 (Heritage Books Inc., reprint 1996) gives several coats of arms for different individuals in the Yates family.

Yate (Buckland, co. Berks)

Arms: Ar. a fess embattled betw. three gates sa.
Crest: Out of a ducal coronet or, a goat's head sa. attire and tufted gold.

Yate

Arms: Ar. a fess embattled betw. three gates sa.
Crest: A horse's head gu.

Yate (Buckland, co. Berks, bart., extinct 1690; Edward Yate, Esq., of Buckland, was so created 1622; Sir John Yate, fourth bart., d. unm.)

Arms: Per pale embattled ar. and sa. three field gates counterchanged.

Yate (Hynton, co. Berks, and Bentlott, co. Oxford; John Yate, of Hynton, and Francis Yate, of Bentlott, sons of Andrew Yate, of Hynton, who was son of John Yate, of Charney, Lord of Lynford, co. Berks, and grandson of Richard Yate, of Charney. Visit. Oxon, 1574)

Arms: Per fess embattled or and gu. three gates counterchanged, quartering, Gu. a chev. vair betw. three crescents erm., for Goddard.
Crest: Out of a ducal coronet or, a buck's head sa. attired ar.

Yate (Stanlake, co. Oxford; James Yate, Esq., of Stanlake, grandson of John Yate, Esq., of same place, eldest son of Edmund Yate, Esq., of same place, temp. Edward IV., who was great-grandson of William Yate, gent., of Charney, co. Berks. Visit. Oxon, 1574)

Arms: Per fess sa. and ar. on a fess embattled counter-embattled betw. three gates as many goats' heads erased all counterchanged.

Yate (Witney, co. Oxford; Thomas Yate, Esq., of Witney, temp. Queen Elizabeth, son of Leonard Yate, of same place, who was second son of Edmund Yate, Esq., of Stanlake, temp. Edward IV. Visit. Oxon, 1574)

Arms: Per fess sa. and ar. on a fess embattled counter-embattled betw. three gates as many goats' heads erased all counterchanged, a crescent for diff.

Yate (co. Oxford)

Arms: Per fess crenellée or and gu. three gates and as many crescents counterchanged.

Yate (Chaddesley-Corbett and Harvington, co. Worcester)

Arms: Ar. a fess embattled betw. three gates sa.

Yate (Wotton Waven, co. Warwick; confirmed by the Deputies of Camden, Clarenceux, to Thomas Yate, of that place, grandson of Richard Yate, of Buckland, co. Berks)

Arms: Per fess embattled or and gu. three gates counterchanged.
Crest: Out of a ducal coronet or, a goat's head sa. armed ar.

Yate (Arlington and Crepingham, co. Gloucester)

Arms: Az. a fess or, in chief two mullets of the second.

Yate (Uppham, co. Wilts)

Arms: Per fess sa. and ar. on a fess embattled betw. three gates as many goats' heads erased all counterchanged.
Crest: A demi goat ramp. per pale sa. and ar. attired counterchanged, holding betw. the legs a gate or.

Yate (Bromesberrow, co. Gloucester; John Yate, son of Robert Yate, Esq., of Dursley, m. Margaret, dau. and co-heir of John Berkeley, son of Sir Robert Berkeley, of Arlingham, in the same co.; his descendant, Walter Yate, of Hook House, in the parish of Bromesberrow, d.s.p. 1744, and was s. by his great-nephew, Robert Dobyns, Esq., of Evesbatch, co. Hereford, grandson of Robert Dobyns, and his wife, Catherine Yate, who in consequence assumed the surname and arms of Yate, by Act of Parliament, 1759; his son left at his decease 1785, a son, Walter Honeywood Yate, Esq., of Bromesberrow, and a dau. Caroline Elizabeth, m. Richard Donovan, Esq., of Tibberton Court, a descendant of Donovan, of Ballymore, co. Wexford, and had an only child, Caroline Anne Donovan, m. James Scott, Esq., Capt. R.N.)

Arms: Quarterly, 1st and 4th, az. a fess and in chief two mullets or, for Yate; 2nd and 3rd, az. a chev. betw. three annulets or, for Dobyns.
Crests: 1st: An elephant's head ar. tusked or; 2nd: A falcon volant or.
Mottos: Quo virtus vocat, for Yate; Quod pudet hoc pigeat.

Yates (co. Worcester)

Arms: Per fess embattled ar. and sa. three gates counterchanged.

Yates (Stanford and Lyford, co. Berks, cos. Buckingham, Oxford, Wilts, and Worcester)

Arms: Per fess embattled ar. and sa. three gates counterchanged.

Yates

Arms: Per fess embattled ar. and sa. three gates counterchanged.
Crest: A demi lion ramp. az.

Yates (Streetyate, afterwards of Peel Hall, or Wicheeves, co. Lancaster)

Arms: Per fess sa. and ar. on a fess embattled counter-embattled betw. three gates as many goats' heads erased all counterchanged.
Crest: Out of a ducal coronet or, a goat's head sa. armed gold.
Motto (over the crest): Legale judicium parium.

Yates (Holm Cot, co. Devon)

Arms: Az. on a fess betw. two gates in chief or, and as many swords saltireways in base ppr. three goats' heads erased sa.
Crest: A goat's head erased ar. guttée de larmes, pierced through the neck fesswise with a sword point to the dexter ppr.
Motto: Pro rege et patriâ.

Yates (Park-Yates)

Arms: Per fess nebulée ar. and gu. a goat's head couped betw. three gates all counterchanges.
Crest: A goat's head couped ar. crusily gu. in the mouth a cinquefoil slipped vert.

Yates (John Ashton Yates, Esq., of Bryanstone Square, London)

Arms: Per pale or and az. a fess dancettée betw. three gates counterchanged.
Crest: A demi antelope or, gorged with a collar dancettée az. and holding betw. the legs a mullet pierced sa.
Motto: Sit quarta cœli.

Yates

Arms: Az. on a fess ar. betw. three gates or, as many antelopes' heads ppr.
Crest: An antelope's head ppr.

Yeates (Lifford, co. Donegal; Fun. Ent. Ulster's Office, 1675, Mary, dau. of John Yeates, of Lifford)

Arms: Per fess embattled ar. and sa. three gates counterchanged.

Yeates or Yeats

Arms: Per fess embattled ar. and sa. three gates counterchanged.
Crest: A lion's head erased ar.

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