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Great work on the 'Maison des Loives'! I've found some sources that looks interesting,

Guillaume Mitte, bordure seems to be Azure rather than Sable, compare it to the St. Anthony's Cross.

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- Thanks, I've tried to keep everything consistent with your style (as best as I could, so you don't have too much to fix afterwards :p).

Those paintings were restored in 1701 but were already heavily damaged at the time and are almost unreadable now (I went there almost 20 years ago and it was hard to read most shields, even with your nose on it). I took some pictures but you can see from the couple ones available online that the paintings have been fading away since the two first studies.
Gustave Vallier made the first study and depict the border of both shields of those abbots as sable, so does Joseph Roman in the XIXth century. I think we'd better trust them on this rather than the watered down remains.
The traditionnal arms given to Guillaume Mitte by Allard and Rivoire de la Bâtie (authors of the two armorials of Dauphiné) are : "... à la bordure de sable, chargée de huit fleurs de lis d'or" (it's a well known family from Forez).

I have three shields to change still so it's not completely done yet : Sassenage is barry of eighteen pieces and there's no crown or claws of course (I just borrowed the modern version from the salle des croisades temporarily). St Geoirs is barry of six pieces rather than three fesses and Romestang is cotised of twelve pieces (rather than fives pieces) according to G.Vallier.

I'll give you the complete references for the three books (Vallier, Roman and Bricault) so you can add them to the sources if you want.
Also Roman's description is available online on Gallica : http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k206212r/f794.image.r=roman%20peintures%20loives?rk=300430;4
That link also includes a depiction of the paintings in the palace of the archbishops in Embrun, another small corpus of paintings I could include in the future (see p.764, it's in french but you'll get the idea).