[Illustration] Traditionally a Norman family seated at Bedingfeld,
in Suffolk, soon after the Conquest. Oxburgh, or Oxborough, has been
the residence of this eminently knightly house from the reign of
Edward IV., when it came by the marriage of Edmund Bedingfeld with
Margaret, daughter of Robert Tudenham, and to whom licence was
granted to build the walls and towers of Oxburgh in the year 1482.
The baronetcy was conferred by Charles II. as a mark of his favour
and in consideration of the eminent loyalty and consequent
sufferings of the family during the usurpation. The Bedingfelds of
Ditchingham, in this county, are a younger branch parted from the
parent stem as early as the middle of the fourteenth century.
See Blomefield, iii. 482; Wotton's Baronetage, iii. 212; and the
Rev. G. H. M'Gill's account of Oxburgh Hall in the Proceedings of
the Norfolk Archeological Society.
ARMS.--_Ermine, an eagle displayed gules, armed or_.
Present Representative, Sir Henry George Paston Bedingfeld, 7th
Baronet.