Present Representative, George Augustus Frederick Albemarle Bertie, 10th Earl of Lindsey.
NORFOLK.
Knightly.
Wodehouse of Kimberley, Baron Wodehouse 1797, Baronet 1611.
"This family is very ancient, for they were gentlemen of good ranke in the time of King John, as it appeareth by many ancient grants and evidences of theirs which I have seen," wrote Peacham in his "Compleate Gentleman," in 1634. (p. 191.) The name is local, being derived from Wodehouse in Silfield, in this county; but as early as the reign of Henry III. the family had property in Kimberley, and in that of Henry IV. the manor was also inherited from the heiress of Fastolff.
See Blomefield's Norfolk, ed. 1739, vol. i. p. 751, for long extracts from the curious old pedigree in verse; Wotton's Baronetage, i. 164; and Brydges's Collins's Peerage, viii. 562.
Arms.—Sable, a chevron or, guttée de sang, between three cinquefoils ermine. This coat is said to have been augmented as now borne, by Henry V. in honour of John Wodehouse's valour at the Battle of Agincourt, the guttée de sang, not at present considered very good heraldry, being then added. The supporters, two wode or wild men, were also, it has been said, then first used.
Present Representative, John Wodehouse, 3rd Baron Wodehouse, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.