[Illustration] There is every reason to believe that the ancestors
of this venerable family have resided at Fulford from the time of
the Conquest. Three knights of the house distinguished themselves in
the wars of the Holy Land. William de Fulford, who held Fulford in
the reign of Richard I., is the first ascertained ancestor. Sir
Baldwin Fulford, a leading Lancastrian, was beheaded at Bristol in
1461.
See Prince's Worthies of Devon, ed. 1701, p. 298, for description of
Fulford; Westcote's Devonshire Pedigrees, p. 612; Lysons, cxlv. 171.
ARMS.--_Gules, a chevron argent_.
Present Representative, Baldwin Fulford, Esq.