[Illustration] John de Middleton, father of Sir Richard Middleton,
sometime secretary and chancellor to King Henry III., is the first
on record of the ancestors of this family. The castle of Belsey
appears to have come from the heiress of Stryvelin in the reign of
Edward III. The name was exchanged for Monck in 1799. A younger
branch, now extinct, was of Silksworth, co. Durham.
See Hodgson's History of Northumberland, vol. i. pt. ii. p. 353;
"The Record of the House of Gourney," 4to, pr. pr. 1848, p. 560; and
Wotton's Baronetage, iii. 382.
ARMS.--_Quarterly gules and or, in the first quarter a cross flory
argent_.
Present Representative, Sir Charles Miles Lambert Monck, sixth
Baronet.