[Illustration] The Wingfields of Wingfield and Letheringham, both in
Suffolk, a distinguished family of the fourteenth and fifteenth
centuries, are traced nearly to the Conquest, though they do not
appear to have been lords of the manor or castle of Wingfield before
the reign of Edward II. The elder branch of this family is
represented by the Viscount Powerscourt in Ireland, descended from
Lewis the ninth son of Sir John Wingfield of Letheringham. The
present family is sprung from Henry, a younger brother of this Sir
John, who died in 1481. Tickencote was acquired by marriage in the
reign of Elizabeth with the heiress of Gresham.
Younger Branch. Wingfield of Onslow in Shropshire, according to the
Visitation of that county, descended from Anthony Wingfield of
Glossop, co. Derby, younger son of Sir Robert Wingfield of
Letheringham, who died in 1431.
See the elaborate dissertation on the House of Wingfield in the
second volume of Anstis's Register of the Order of the Garter;
see also Blakeway's Sheriffs of Shropshire, pp. 147, 150;
Camden's Visitation of the county of Huntingdon, 1613, (printed by
the Camden Society,) p. 125, &c.; and Blore's Rutlandshire, (fo.
1811,) for full pedigrees of the different branches formerly seated
at Crowfield and Dunham-Magna, co. Norfolk; Kimbolton Castle, co.
Huntingdon; Letheringham and Brantham, co. Suffolk; and Upton, co.
Northampton, p. 65-70. For Viscount Powerscourt, see Archdall's
Lodge, v. 255.
ARMS.--_Argent, on a bend gules cotised sable three pair of wings
conjoined of the field_. In the reign of Richard II. Monsieur
William Wyngefeld bore, _Gules, two wings conjoined in lure argent_.
(Roll.)
Present Representative, John Muxloe Wingfield, Esq.