[Illustration] When the ancestors of this family were first seated
at Plowden is a matter of doubt, but it was at a very early period.
In 1194 Roger de Plowden is said to have been at the siege of Acre
with Richard I., and there to have acquired the fleurs-de-lis in the
arms. The name occurs upon all the county records from the reign of
Henry III. Edmund Plowden the lawyer, in the sixteenth century, was
the great luminary of this family.
See Baker's Northamptonshire, i. 470; Blakeway, pp. 132, 222, and
Morris MSS.
ARMS.--_Azure, a fess dancettée, the two upper points terminating in
fleurs-de-lis or_.
Present Representative, William Henry Francis Plowden, Esq.