[Illustration] This family can also lay claim to great antiquity,
being certainly resident at Eyton on the Wealdmoors as early as the
reigns of Henry I. and II. They were in some way connected with the
Pantulfs, Barons of Wem, who were Lords of Eyton at the period of
the Domesday Survey, and, in consequence of this connection, not
only quarter their arms, but were among the very few Shropshire
gentry who were not dispossessed after the Rebellion of the third
Norman Earl of Shrewsbury, in the time of Henry I.
Robert de Eyton stands at the head of the pedigree.
See Blakeway, pp. 56, 70, 71; Eyton's Shropshire, viii. p. 26; and
Morris MSS.
ARMS.--_Quarterly, first and fourth, or, a fret azure; second and
third, gules two bars ermine_.
Present Representative, Thomas Campbell Eyton, Esq.