One of the great ancestors of the Codrington family was John de Codrington, grandson of Geoffrey Codrington, standard-bearer to Henry V., 1415; he afterwards purchased the manor of Wapeley in 1455, living to the great age of 112; died in 1475. From this source descends the family of Codrington connected with Antigua.
Geoffrey Codrington, of Codrington, co. Gloucester, left issue a son, Robert, of the same place, and also of Sodbury. Robert had issue three sons, Morvail, Humphry, and John.
John, m. and had issue, Christopher, and Edward.
Edward, m. and had a son,
Thomas, who m. and had a son,
Simon, who died in 1618, leaving by his wife, Anne, co-heiress of Richard Seacole, of Didmarton, co. Gloucester, three sons,
i. John. ii. Giles. iii. Robert.
Robert Codrington, m. Anne, co-heiress of Richard Stubbs, and left issue, Christopher, and John. John was of Didmarton, and died in 1670.
Christopher, the eldest son, was a lieutenant-colonel in the army, and settled in Barbados in the year 1649, after having contended in the Royal cause; he married and had two sons, Christopher, and John, the latter colonel of the Life-guards in Barbados, of whom presently.
Christopher, the elder son, was governor of the Leeward Islands in 1689, and died in 1698, leaving, by ———, his wife, two sons, Christopher, the celebrated founder of All Souls’, Oxford, and John, who died in the lifetime of his brother.