[Illustration] The pedigree begins with Hugo de Burdet, who came
into England with William I., and was lord of the manor of Loseby,
in Leicestershire, in 1066. Arrow, in the county of Warwick, which
came from the heiress of Camvile the 9th of Edward II., was long the
seat of the Burdetts, but they had long before, as Dugdale shows,
been connected by property with that county, William Burdett having
founded the cell of Ancote, near Sekindon, in the fifth of Henry II.
The manor of Arrow, and many other estates of this family, carried
by an heiress to the Conways in the reign of Henry VII., became the
fruitful cause of many lawsuits, which were not finally settled till
the end of the reign of Henry VIII. See Dugdale for the curious
details. Foremark was inherited from the heiress of Francis in 1602.
See Dugdale's Warwickshire, 2nd edit. ii. 847; Erdeswick's
Staffordshire, ed. 1844, 462; Nichols's Leicestershire, iii. pt. 1.
351; Wotton's Baronetage, i. 327; and Lysons.
ARMS.--_Azure, two bars or_. Sir William Burdett bore this coat in
the reign of Edward II. Sir Robert the same, _in the upper bar three
martlets gules_. (Roll Edw. II. under Leicestershire.) Sir Richard
the same, with an _orle of martlets gules_. (Roll E. III.) Monsr,
John Burdet the same, _each bar charged with three martlets gules_.
(Roll Richard II.)
Present Representative, Sir Robert Burdett, 6th Baronet.