[Illustration] Richard Edgcumbe was Lord of Edgcumbe in 1292, and
was the direct ancestor of this venerable family, the present
representative being twentieth in lineal descent from this first
Richard.
In the reign of Edward III. William Edgcumbe, second son of the
house of Edgcumbe, having married the heiress of Cotehele, in the
parish of Calstock, removed into Cornwall, and was the ancestor of
the Edgcumbes of Cotehele and Mount Edgcumbe, Earls of Mount
Edgcumbe (1789).
Another younger branch was of Brompton, or Brampton, in Kent.
See Prince's Worthies of Devon, ed. 1701, p. 281; Gilbert's Survey
of Cornwall, 4to. 1820, vol. i. p. 444; Carew's Cornwall, 1st ed.,
p. 99 b and 114 a; Brydges's Collins, v. 306; and Lysons's Cornwall,
lxxiii. 212, 53.
ARMS.--_Gules, on a bend ermine cotised or three boar's heads couped
argent_.
Present Representative, Richard D. Edgcumbe, Esq.
CHICHESTER OF YOULSTON, IN THE PARISH OF SHERWILL, FORMERLY OF
RALEGH, IN THE PARISH OF PILTON; BARONET 1641.
[Illustration] This ancient family is said to have taken its name
from Cirencester, in Gloucestershire, the residence of its remote
ancestors. The Chichesters were, however, as early as the reign of
Henry III. of the county of Devon, although Ralegh came to them at a
later period from an heiress of that name; Youlston, the present
seat, from an heiress of Beaumont in the time of Henry VII. John de
Cirencester, living in the 20th of Henry I. is said to have been the
first recorded ancestor.
Younger branches. Chichester of Hall, in Bishop's-Towton; seated at
Hall, from an heiress of that name in the 15th century, Chichester
of Arlington, since the reign of Henry VII.; and Chichester, Marquis
of Donegal, descended from Edward, 3rd son of Sir John Chichester,
in the reign of Elizabeth, &c.
See Prince's Worthies of Devon, ed. 1701, pp. 135, 199; Westcote's
Devonshire, 303, and Pedigrees, 604, &c., Wotton's Baronetage,
ii. 226; Brydges's Collins, viii. 177; Shaw's Staffordshire, i.
374; Lysons, cxi. 440; and Archdall's Lodge's Peerage, ii. 314.
ARMS.--_Cheeky or and gules, a chief vair_.
Present Representative, Sir Arthur Chichester, 8th Baronet.