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] Richard de Okelandre, the patriarch of his family, is
supposed to have been of Norman origin, and was Lord of Nunwell, in
the Isle of Wight, the present seat, from the time of King John.
Seventeenth in direct male descent from Richard, was Sir John
Oglander, Knt., a great sufferer, both in person and fortune, for
his zealous attachment to his sovereign King Charles I. He died
before the Restoration, but his loyalty was recognised by the
baronetcy conferred upon his son, a worthy successor to his father,
by Charles II. in 1665.
See Hutchins's History of Dorset, i, p. 450, for an account of the
family under "Parnham," which came from the heiress of Strode; see
also Wotton's Baronetage, iii. 492.
ARMS.--_Azure, a stork between three cross-crosslets fitchée or_.
Present Representative, Sir Henry Oglander, 7th Baronet.
WALLOP OF WALLOP, EARL OF PORTSMOUTH 1743.
[Illustration] The true and original name of this family is Barton,
Peter de Barton, lord of West Barton, in this county, having married
Alice, only daughter and heiress of Sir Robert de Wallop, who died
in the eleventh year of Edward I. His great-grandson Richard assumed
the name of Wallop, and was returned as one of the knights of the
shire for the county of Southampton in the second of Edward III.
Over and Nether Wallop, so called, says Camden, "from Well-hop, that
is, a pretty well in the side of a hill," continued till the reign
of Henry V. the principal seat, when Margaret de Valoynes brought
into the family the manor of Farley, afterwards called
Farley-Wallop, which has since been the usual residence of the
Wallops; of whom Sir John was greatly distinguished in the reign of
Henry VII., and Sir Henry in Ireland in that of Elizabeth. Robert
Wallop, grandson of Sir Henry, unfortunately taking part against his
sovereign Charles I., and sitting as one of his judges, though he
did not sign the fatal warrant, fell into universal contempt after
the Restoration, and died in the Tower of London in 1667. He was
great-grandfaher of the first peer.
See Brydges's Collins, iv. p. 291.
ARMS.--_Argent, a bend wavy sable_. This coat was borne by Monsieur
John de Barton in the reign of Richard II. (Roll.)
Present Representative, Isaac Newton Wallop, 5th Earl of
Portsmouth.
COPE OF BRAMSHILL, BARONET 1611.
[Illustration] The Copes appear in the character of civil servants
of the crown in the reign of Richard II. and Henry IV., and were
rewarded with large grants of land in the counties of Northampton
and Buckingham. Hardwick and Hanwell, both in the neighbourhood of
Banbury, were subsequently the family seats, and are noticed by
Leland, who calls the latter "a very pleasant and gallant house."
Towards the end of the seventeenth century the family appear to have
been established at Bramshill, traditionally said to have been built
for Henry Prince of Wales, eldest son of King James I.
See Wotton's Baronetage i. p. 112; and Beesley's History of Banbury,
p. 190.
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