[Illustration] This ancient Norman house was seated at Norbury, by
the grant of the Prior of Tutbury, in 1125, 25 Henry I. The
principal male line becoming extinct in 1649, the succession went to
a younger branch descended from William, third son of the celebrated
Sir Anthony Fitzherbert the judge, who had seated themselves at
Swinnerton, in Staffordshire, still the residence of this family.
Younger branch. Fitzherbert of Tissington, Baronet 1783, descended
from Nicholas, younger son of John Fitzherbert of Somersall. See
Topographer for a curious account of the pedigree and monuments, ii.
225, and Lysons, 217; for Fitzherbert of Tissington, Topographer and
Genealogist, i. 362; Gent. Mag. lxvii. p. 645; Topographer, iii. 57;
and Brydges's Collins, ix. 156.
ARMS.--_Argent, a chief vaire or and gules, over all a bend sable_.
This coat is also complimentary to Ferrers. The Tissington
Fitzherberts have assumed a different coat, viz. _Gules, three lions
rampant or_, from a fanciful notion of their descent from Henry
Fitzherbert, Lord Chamberlain 5th Stephen, ancestor of the Herberts
of Dean. The lions were assumed as early as 1569. See the Visitation
of Derbyshire.
Present Representative, Basil Fitzherbert, Esq.