Arms.—Azure, a chevron between three mullets or. In the reign of Edward II. Sir John Chetwind bore, Azure, a chevron or, without the mullets; the present coat was borne by others of the family in the reigns of Edward III. and Richard II. (Rolls.)
Present Representative, Sir George Chetwynd, third Baronet.
Feilding of Newnham Paddox, Earl of Denbigh 1622.
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 Rinfelden, 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.
Staunton of Longbridge.
