[Illustration] This is an ancient Suffolk and Cambridgeshire family,
and can be traced to the time of Henry I. The Colviles, Barons of
Culross, in Scotland, are descended from a younger brother of the
second progenitor of the family.
The manor of Newton-Colvile, acquired by the marriage of Sir Roger
Colvile of Carleton Colvile in Suffolk, called "_The Rapacious
Knight_," with the heiress of De Marisco, and held under the Bishop
of Ely, continued in the Colviles from a period extending nearly
from the Conquest to the year 1792, when it was sold, and the
representative of this family, Sir Charles Colvile, settled in
Derbyshire in consequence of his marriage with Miss Bonnel of
Duffield. The head of the family was on the Royalist side in the
reign of Charles I., and one of the intended Knights of the Royal
Oak.
See Lysons's Cambridgeshire, 242; Blomefield's Norfolk; and Watson's
History of Wisbeach.
ARMS.--_Azure, a lion rampant or, a label of five points gules_.
This coat, with the lion argent, was borne by Sir Geoffry de
Colville in the reign of Edward II., and without the label by Monsr.
John Colvyle in that of Richard II. (Rolls of Arms of the dates.)
Sir Roger de Colvile bore the present coat with a label of three
points only, in 1240; as appears by his seal to a deed of that date.
Present Representative, Charles R. Colvile, Esq. M.P. for South
Derbyshire.
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