[Illustration] Iddon, son of Rys Sais, a powerful British chieftain
in the Shropshire Marches at the period of the Norman Conquest, is
the ancestor of the family of Edwardes. His descendants were seated
at Kilhendre, in the parish of Ellesmere, in the reign of Henry I.,
an estate which continued in the family in the time of Queen
Elizabeth. The eminent services of Sir Thomas Edwardes of Shrewsbury
to King Charles I. were rewarded by the grant of a Baronetcy in
1645. The patent, however, was not taken out till the year 1678,
with a right of precedency before all baronets created after 1644.
The distinguished Major Herbert Edwardes, C.B., one of Her Majesty's
Commissioners for settling the affairs of the Punjaub, is of this
family.
See Blakeway, pp. 107, 121; Blakeway and Owen's Shrewsbury, ii. 259;
and Wotton's Baronetage, ii. 415; and Morris MSS.
ARMS.--_Gules, a chevron engrailed between three heraldic tiger's
heads erased argent_.
Present Representative, Sir Henry Hope Edwardes, 10th Baronet.