Present Representative, Sir John Harpur Crewe, 9th Baronet.
Burdett of Foremark, Baronet 1618.
The pedigree begins with Hugo de Burdet, who came into England with William I., and was lord of the manor of Loseby, in Leicestershire, in 1066. Arrow, in the county of Warwick, which came from the heiress of Camvile the 9th of Edward II., was long the seat of the Burdetts, but they had long before, as Dugdale shows, been connected by property with that county, William Burdett having founded the cell of Ancote, near Sekindon, in the fifth of Henry II. The manor of Arrow, and many other estates of this family, carried by an heiress to the Conways in the reign of Henry VII., became the fruitful cause of many lawsuits, which were not finally settled till the end of the reign of Henry VIII. See Dugdale for the curious details. Foremark was inherited from the heiress of Francis in 1602.
See Dugdale's Warwickshire, 2nd edit. ii. 847; Erdeswick's Staffordshire, ed. 1844, 462; Nichols's Leicestershire, iii. pt. 1. 351; Wotton's Baronetage, i. 327; and Lysons.
Arms.—Azure, two bars or. Sir William Burdett bore this coat in the reign of Edward II. Sir Robert the same, in the upper bar three martlets gules. (Roll Edw. II. under Leicestershire.) Sir Richard the same, with an orle of martlets gules. (Roll E. III.) Monsr, John Burdet the same, each bar charged with three martlets gules. (Roll Richard II.)
Present Representative, Sir Robert Burdett, 6th Baronet.
Cave of Stretton, Baronet 1641.
A family of great antiquity, which can be traced to the Conquest; originally of South and North Cave in Yorkshire. In the fifteenth century they removed into Northamptonshire and Leicestershire, and were long of Stanford, in the former county. The elder line of the Caves becoming extinct in 1810, the Baronetcy devolved on a younger branch, descended in the female line from the Brownes of Stretton, and from hence their connection with Derbyshire.