[Illustration] The name is local, from Codrington, in the parish of'
Wapley, in the county of Gloucester, where this family was seated as
early as the reign of Henry IV. John Codrington, Esquire,
Standard-bearer to Henry V. in his wars in France, was the direct
ancestor; he died in 1475, at the age, it is said, of 112; his
monument remains at Wapley.
Codrington remained in the family till 1753, when it passed with an
heiress to the Bamfyldes of Poltimore, and has since been
re-purchased by the present owner of Dodington. Didmarton, also in
Gloucestershire, which came by marriage in 1570, and was afterwards
sold, and latterly Wroughton, in this county, became the family
seats.
Two younger branches have been seated at Dodington; the first,
descended from Thomas Codrington, brother of John the
Standard-bearer, long settled at Frampton-on-Severn in
Gloucestershire, bought Dodington in the time of Queen Elizabeth and
sold it at the beginning of the eighteenth century to the ancestor
of the present family, Codrington of Dodington, in the county of
Gloucester, Baronet 1721, descended from Christopher, second son of
Robert Codrington, who died in 1618.
See Atkyns's Gloucestershire, pp. 204 and 391; Rudder's
Gloucestershire, p. 787; and Wotton's Baronetage, vol. iv. p. 201.
Corrected by the information of Mr. R. H. Codrington.
ARMS.--_Argent, a fess embattled counter-embattled sable, fretty
gules, between three lioncels passant of the third_. The fretty is
sometimes omitted by the present Dodington branch. The ancient coat
was simply, _Argent, a fess between three lioncels passant gules_,
still used by the former family of Dodington, now settled in
Somersetshire. The embattlement and fret was an augmentation granted
to the Standard-bearer in the 19th of Henry VI.; and again two years
before he died he received a further acknowledgement of his support
of the Red Rose in a coat to be borne quarterly, _Vert, on a bend
argent three roses gules, in the sinister quarter a dexter hand
couped of the second_.
Present Representative, William Wyndham Codrington, Esq.
THYNNE OF LONGLEATE, MARQUESS OF BATH 1789; VISCOUNT WEYMOUTH 1682;
BARONET 1641.
[Illustration] The name is derived from the mansion or inn at
Stretton, in the county of Salop, to which the freehold lands of the
family, with various detached copyholds, were attached. The original
name was Botfield, so called from Botfield in Stretton; the first on
record being William de Bottefeld, sub-forester of Shirlet, in
Shropshire, in 1255. About the time of Edward IV. the elder line of
the family assumed the name of Thynne, otherwise Botfeld, which was
borne for three generations before the time of Sir John Thynne, the
purchaser of Longleate, who died in 1580, the ancestor of the
present family.
Younger Branch represented by the late Beriah Botfield of
Norton Hall, in the county of Northampton, and Decker Hill, co.
Salop, descended from John, second son of Thomas Bottefeld, of
Bottefeld, living in 1439.
See the Topographer and Genealogist, vol. iii. p. 468; and the
Stemmata Botevilliana, (privately printed,) second edition, 1858,
4to.
ARMS.--_Barry of ten or and sable_. The younger branch, who retained
the name of Botfield, bore _Barry of twelve or and sable_.
Present Representative, John Alexander Thynne, 4th Marquess of
Bath.