The Brookewood Crest: a fess wavy azure on a field argent with three roses gules in chief. The name Brookewood honors the early Maryland family of the Brookes, who first settled along the Patuxent River in Calvert County in the 17th century. In the pre-Revolutionary period, when only three hundred Americans were educated in Europe from all thirteen colonies, the Brookes sent thirty-four sons and daughters to receive the classical and religious education offered there. A scion of the Brooke family was one of the first settlers in what would eventually become Montgomery County, the westernmost settlement in English America at the time and that branch was one of the first to voluntarily give up chattel slavery. The Brookes at one time owned 20,000 acres in the upper part of Montgomery County. The fess wavy is an eponymous device for a brook and three roses stand for holiness in family, work, and social life. The Latin motto, NOLITE TIMERE means “Be not afraid!”, a frequent injunction of John Paul II to youth.
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