[Illustration] This is the only remaining branch of the once
powerful family of Cornewall, for so many ages Barons of Burford,
(though without a summons to parliament,) descended from Richard,
natural son of Richard Earl of Cornwall, King of the Romans, and
second son of John King of England: (an illegitimacy however which
was denied at the Heralds' Visitation of this county in 1623, by Sir
Thomas Cornewall, of Burford, who stated that the said Richard was
the legitimate son of Richard Plantagenet, Earl of Cornwall, by
Sanchia of Provence, his second wife). The Barony of Burford came
into the Cornewall family before he ninth of Edward II. with the
coheiress of Mortimer, and continued with the descendants till
the death of Francis, Baron of Burford, in 1726. The present
family is sprung from a younger line, seated at Berrington in the
county of Hereford, in the fifteenth century, and which estate was
sold in the eighteenth. Delbury was purchased by and became the seat
of Frederick Cornewall, Esq. who died in 1788, and was father of the
late Bishop of Worcester.
See Blakeway, pp. 72, 83, 92; and Morris MSS.
ARMS.--_Ermine, a lion rampant gules crowned or within a bordure
engrailed sable bezantee_. "Jeffery de Cornewall" and "Symon de
Cornewall" bore, _Argent, a lion rampant gules crowned or, with a
baston sable, the first charged with three mullets or, the second
with three bezants_. (Roll of the reign of Edward III.) The present
coat was borne by Monsieur Bryan Cornewall, in the reign of Richard
II. (Roll.)
Present Representative, Herbert Cornewall, Esq.