Hugh De Vernon was called Baron of Shipbrook and Northwyke. He introduced the first Vernon coat-of-arms, one of the very first in England. The Vernon coat-of-arms predates the College of Heraldry by about fifty years. Hugh inherited the barony in about 1160. One of his sons, Richard De Osbroke, may have been imprisoned, because he fell out of favor with King Richard The Lion Hearted. Quite a few of the Norman aristocracy and nobility at this time turned against King Richard in favor of King Phillip Augustus of France to protect their Normandy properties.