[Illustration] No family in England can claim a more noble origin
than the house of Arden, descended in the male line from the Saxon
Earls of Warwick before the Conquest. The name of Arden was assumed
from the Woodlands of Arden, in the North of Warwickshire, by Siward
de Arden, in the reign of Henry I.; which Siward was grandson of
Alwin the Sheriff in the reign of Edward the Confessor. The elder
line of the family was long seated at Park-Hall in Warwickshire, and
became extinct in 1643. A younger branch descended from Simon second
son of Thomas Arden, of Park-Hall, Esq. settled at Longcroft, in the
parish of Yoxall, in the reign of Elizabeth, and now represents this
most ancient and noble family.
See Dugdale's Warwickshire, 2nd edit. vol. ii. p. 295; Shaw's
Staffordshire, vol. i. p. 102; and Erdeswick, p. 279; also a paper
by George Ormerod, Esq. LL.D., the historian of Cheshire, "On the
connection of Arden, or Arderne, of Cheshire, with the Ardens of
Warwickshire," in "The Topographer and Genealogist," vol. i. 1846.
ARMS.--_Ermine, a fess checky or and azure_, and so borne by
Sir----de Arderne in the reign of Edward II. (Roll.)
Present Representative, George Pincard Arden, Esq.