The Noble and Gentle Men of England / or, notes touching the arms and descents of the ancient knightly and gentle houses of England, arranged in their respective counties.

by Evelyn Philip Shirley

See Ormerod's Cheshire, i. 350; iii. 333, 338, 374.

Arms.—Gules, a cross engrailed, and in the dexter point a fusil argent.

Present Representative, William Henry Leigh, 2nd Baron Leigh.

HEREFORDSHIRE.

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Knightly.

Bodenham of Rotherwas.

Hugh de Bodenham, Lord of Bodenham, in this county, grandfather of Roger who lived in the reign of Henry III., is the ancestor of this family; who were afterwards of Monington and of Rotherwas, about the middle of the fifteenth century.

See Blore's Rutlandshire for Bodenham of Ryhall, in that county, now extinct, (p. 49,) and Duncomb's Herefordshire, i. 91, 104.