[Illustration] On the decease of the last Earl Harcourt, in 1830,
the representation in the male line of the illustrious House of
Harcourt devolved on this family, descended from a younger brother
of Simon, first Viscount Harcourt, and the heiress of Lee. Stanton
Harcourt, in the county of Oxford, was possessed by the ancestors of
this great House in 1166, and continued in the family till the
extinction of the elder line in 1830. The pedigree is traced to
Robert de Harcourt, who married Joan, daughter of Robert Beaumont,
Earl of Mellent, and who was grandson of Robert who attended William
the Conqueror in his expedition to England in 1066.
See Brydges's Collins's Peerage, iv. p. 428; and Nichols's
Leicestershire, iv. pt. 2. p. 519.*
ARMS.--_Gules, two bars or_. This coat was borne by Sir John de
Harcourt in the reign of Edward II. Thomas Harecourt, the reverse,
in the reign of Richard II. Rolls of the period.
Present Representative, George Simon Harcourt, Esq.
+Gentle.+