Earl Roger the overlord

The tomb of Earl Roger de Montgomery in Shrewsbury Abbey is one of the town's most precious heritage assets.  Earl Roger was the Norman lord who was installed as the first Earl of Shrewsbury by William The Conqueror following the Norman invasion of England in 1066.

It's said that the reason that the traditional colours of loggerheads/Shrewsbury are gold & blue is because there were Earl Roger's colours. In fact, though Roger's wife and his son seemed to have arms of gold & blue bars, I can't find a direct link between Roger himself and any gold & blue colouring.  Can anyone help me find out more about this?

The gold & blue colours-combination has persisted for nearly one thousand years in Shrewsbury.  Today, the town's football club play in these same exact colours!

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Croziers plus loggerhead

Another single loggerhead. 
At the Shrewsbury Arms in Albrighton in east Shropshire, it's obvious that the pub's name is associated with the Talbot family, the Earls Of Shrewsbury (the biggest land-owners locally until the beginning of the twentieth century).
But why the two croziers (aka bishops' staffs)?  The seventeenth century earl was a priest (and is buried in the church opposite the pub); is that why?

Please let us have your thoughts...
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Dog, not leopard

 

Sometimes, one gets obsessive, and thinks that anything vaguely resembling an animal face might be a loggerhead.  They are not always, of course.

Here on English Bridge in Shrewsbury, the animal is probably a Talbot dog, the symbol of the Earls of Shrewsbury. Not a loggerhead.