[Illustration] This family claims the same ancestor as the now
extinct house of the Windsors Earls of Plymouth; the Carews also,
both of England and Ireland, are descended, according to Camden,
from the same progenitors: the pedigree therefore is extended to the
Conquest, Otherus or Otho being the first recorded ancestor. The
Lancashire branch were not settled there till the reign of Edward
III., when they became possessed of Bryn, by marriage with the
heiress of that name and place, From the Gerards of Ince descended
the extinct Lords Gerard, of Gerard's-Bromley, and Sir William
Gerard, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, who died in 1581.
See Baines's Lancashire, iii. 641; and Wotton's Baronetage, i. 51.
ARMS.--_Argent, a saltire gules_.
Present Representative, Sir Robert Tolver Gerard, 13th Baronet.