The Noble and Gentle Men of England: or, notes touching the arms and descents of the ancient knightly and gentle houses of England, arranged in their respective counties.Shirley, Evelyn Philip
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The Noble and Gentle Men of England: or, notes touching the arms and descents of the ancient knightly and gentle houses of England, arranged in their respective counties.
Shirley, Evelyn Philip
Great Britain -- Genealogy; Heraldry -- Great Britain; Nobility -- Great Britain
[Illustration] The younger, but, in England, the only remaining
branch of a very ancient family, denominated from Chetwynd, in
Shropshire, and of Baxterly, in this county, in the 37th of Henry
III. Sir William Chetwind was the first of the name seated at
Grendon, in the 39th of Edward III., his mother being daughter and
coheir of Sir Ralph de Grendon; but Ingestre, in Staffordshire,
which came from the heiress of Mutton, was the principal seat of the
Chetwinds, which was eventually carried by an heiress into the
Talbot family (now Earl of Shrewsbury).
Elder Branch. The Viscounts Chetwynd of Ireland (1717).
See Dugdale's Warwickshire, vol. ii. p. 1101; Erdeswick's
Staffordshire, ed. 1844, p. 61; Eyton's Shropshire, viii. p. 81; and
Archdall's Lodge, vol. v. p. 148.
ARMS.--_Azure, a chevron between three mullets or_. In the reign of
Edward II. Sir John Chetwind bore, _Azure, a chevron or_, without
the mullets; the present coat was borne by others of the family in
the reigns of Edward III. and Richard II. (Rolls.)
Present Representative, Sir George Chetwynd, third Baronet.
FEILDING OF NEWNHAM PADDOX, EARL OF DENBIGH 1622.
[Illustration] The princely extraction of this noble family from the
counts of Hapsburg in Germany is well known; its ancestor,
Galfridus, or Geffrey, came into England in the twelfth year of the
reign of Henry III., and received large possessions from that
monarch. The name is derived from Rin_felden_, in Germany, where,
and at Lauffenburg, were the patrimonial possessions of the house of
Hapsburg. Newnham was in possession of John Fildying in the twelfth
of Henry VI., inherited from his mother Joan, daughter and heir of
William Prudhome.
See Dugdale's Warwickshire, vol. i. p. 86; Brydges's Collins' vol.
iii. p. 265; and Nichols's Leicestershire, vol. iv. pt. i. p. 273,
for the history of this illustrious family, compiled by Nathaniel
Wanley about the year 1670.
ARMS.--_Argent, on a fess azure three fusils or_. The present coat
was borne in the reigns of Edward III. and Richard II., as appears
by Seals of those dates.
Present Representative, Rudolph William Basil Feilding, 8th Earl of
Denbigh.
STAUNTON OF LONGBRIDGE.
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