[Illustration] The princely extraction of this noble family from the
counts of Hapsburg in Germany is well known; its ancestor,
Galfridus, or Geffrey, came into England in the twelfth year of the
reign of Henry III., and received large possessions from that
monarch. The name is derived from Rin_felden_, in Germany, where,
and at Lauffenburg, were the patrimonial possessions of the house of
Hapsburg. Newnham was in possession of John Fildying in the twelfth
of Henry VI., inherited from his mother Joan, daughter and heir of
William Prudhome.
See Dugdale's Warwickshire, vol. i. p. 86; Brydges's Collins' vol.
iii. p. 265; and Nichols's Leicestershire, vol. iv. pt. i. p. 273,
for the history of this illustrious family, compiled by Nathaniel
Wanley about the year 1670.
ARMS.--_Argent, on a fess azure three fusils or_. The present coat
was borne in the reigns of Edward III. and Richard II., as appears
by Seals of those dates.
Present Representative, Rudolph William Basil Feilding, 8th Earl of
Denbigh.