[Illustration] A most ancient family, also coeval with the Conquest,
descended from Bagod, who at the time of the compilation of Domesday
Book held Bromley of Robert de Stadford or Stafford. In the reign of
Richard I. the male line of the Staffords failing, Milicent Stafford
married Henry Bagot of this family, and their issue, assuming their
mother's name, were progenitors of the illustrious house of
Stafford, Dukes of Buckingham. Blythfield in this county, which came
from an heiress of that name, has been the seat of the Bagots from
the thirteenth century.
Younger Branches. Chester of Chicheley Hall, co. Bucks, and Bagot of
Pype Hayes, co. Warwick, descended from the second and third sons of
Sir Walter W. Bagot, father of the first Lord Bagot.
See Bagot Memorials, privately printed, 4to. 1824; Wotton's
Baronetage, ii. 47; and Erdeswick, p. 262.
ARMS.--_Ermine, two chevrons azure_. A former coat was, _Argent, a
chevron gules between three martlets sable_, which was used from the
reign of Edward III. to that of Henry VIII. (Rolls.) The present
coat is of still greater antiquity.
Present Representative, William Bagot, 3rd Baron Bagot.