[Illustration] This very ancient family is lineally descended from
Robert de Thain, who held Chetwode under the Bishop of Baieux in the
time of William the Conqueror, as appears by Domesday Book.
John de Chetwode having during the reign of Edward III. married the
heiress of Oakeley, of Oakeley in Staffordshire, the family have
mostly resided there, as well as at Ansley Hall in Warwickshire,
derived from the heiress of Ludford in 1821.
Willis, writing in 1755, says--"This manor of Chetwode, as appears
to me, has been in the possession and inheritance of the Chetwodes
longer than any estate or manor in this county of Buckingham has
continued the property of any other family now there existing."
See Willis's Buckingham, p. 172; Erdeswicke's Staffordshire, ed.
1844, p. 119; Wotton's Baronetage, iv. p. 82; and Lysons's
Buckinghamshire, p. 172.
ARMS.--_Quarterly argent and gules, four crosses patée
counterchanged_.
Present Representative, Sir John Newdigate-Ludford-Chetwode, 5th
Baronet.