[Illustration] Ansgerus, or Arthur, owner of lands in Combe, in the
parish of Wotton under Edge, in this county, the gift of the Empress
Maude, is the patriarch of this venerable family. The manor of
Kingscote, which had been given by William I. to Roger de Berkeley,
was inherited from Aldeva, the daughter of Robert Fitz-Hardinge and
the wife of Nigel de Kingscote, soon after the reign of Henry II.
The Kingscotes shared in the glories of both Poictiers and
Agincourt, and, although a family of such long standing in
this county, appear never to have exceeded the moderate limits of
their present ancestral property.
See Atkyns's Gloucestershire, 2nd edit. 1768, p. 258; Rudder's
Gloucestershire, p. 512; and Fosbroke's Smyth's Lives of the
Berkeleys, p. 218.
ARMS.--_Argent, nine escallops sable, on a canton gules a mullet
pierced or_.
Present Representative, Thomas Henry Kingscote, Esq.