[Illustration] The Babingtons were of Babington in Northumberland in
the reign of King John: they afterwards removed into
Nottinghamshire, and became very distinguished. The elder line was
seated at Dethick in Ashover, in the county of Derby, by marriage
with the coheiress of the ancient family of that name, before the
year 1431. The Rothley branch, descended from a second son of the
house of Dethick, was seated there at the very beginning of the
sixteenth century, and is now the chief line of the family on the
extinction of Babington of Dethick about 1650.
See Nichols's Leicestershire, iii. pt. 2. 955; and Collectanea
Topographica et Genealogica, ii. 94, and viii. 313, for a most
valuable article on the elder line of this family. See also
Topographer and Genealogist, i. 133, 259, 333, for the various
branches of this ancient family.
ARMS.--_Argent, ten torteauxes and a label of three points azure_.
This coat reversed and without the label was borne by Sir John de
Babington in the reign of Edward II. (Roll of the date.)
Present Representative, Thomas Gisborne Babington, Esq.
+Gentle.+