[Illustration] The name is derived from Throcmorton, in the parish
of Fladbury, in the county of Worcester, where John de Trockemerton,
the supposed ancestor of this family, was living about the year
1200. From this John descended, after many generations, another
"John Throkmerton," who was, according the Leland, "the first setter
up of his name to any worship in Throkmerton village, the which was
at that tyme neither of his inheritance or purchase, but as a
thing taken of the Sete of Wircester in farme, bycause he bore the
name of the lordeship and village. This John was Under-Treasurer of
England about the tyme of Henry V.;" and married Elianor, daughter
and coheir of Guido de la Spine, and thus became possessed of
Coughton, in the parish of Hadley, in this county, which has
continued the principal seat of the family, of whom the most
remarkable was Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, ambassador in France, in
the reign of Queen Elizabeth, who died in 1570.
Younger Branches (now extinct), were the Throckmortons of Stoughton
and Ellington, in Huntingdonshire, [for the latter see Camden's
Visitation of that county in 1613, printed by the Camden Society in
1849, p. 123;] and the Carews of Bedington, in Surrey, Baronet 1714,
extinct 1764; descended in the male line from Sir Nicholas, younger
son of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, and Anne, daughter of Sir Nicholas
Carew, Knt.; see Wotton's Baronetage, vol. ii. pi 351, and vol. iv.
p. 159; Dugdale's Warwickshire, vol. ii. pp. 749 and 819; Nash's
Worcestershire, vol. i. p. 452; Leland's Itinerary, vol. iv. p. 16;
and for the poetical life of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, see Peck's
Memoirs of Milton.
ARMS.--_Gules, on a chevron argent three bars gemelles sable_.
Present Representative, Sir Nicholas William Throckmorton, 9th
Baronet.