[Illustration] Hugh de Bodenham, Lord of Bodenham, in this county,
grandfather of Roger who lived in the reign of Henry III., is the
ancestor of this family; who were afterwards of Monington and of
Rotherwas, about the middle of the fifteenth century.
See Blore's Rutlandshire for Bodenham of Ryhall, in that county, now
extinct, (p. 49,) and Duncomb's Herefordshire, i. 91, 104.
ARMS.--_Azure, a fess between three chess-rooks or_.
Present Representative, Charles De la Barre Bodenham, Esq.