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Wodehouse (surname)

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The family coat of arms as shown on a stamp used by John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley (1826–1902); Sable a chevron or goutty de sang between three cinquefoils
The medieval family coat of arms before its augmentation after the Battle of Agincourt: Sable a chevron or between three cinquefoils.

Wodehouse (/ˈwʊdhs/ "wood-house") is an English surname and barony.

The baronetcy was created in 1611, the barony in 1797. Since 1866 it has been held by the Earl of Kimberley, the current Baron Wodehouse being John Wodehouse, 5th Earl of Kimberley (born 1951).

History

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The name "de Wodehouse" is attested as early as in the 11th century, of one Bertram, of Wodehouse-tower, Yorkshire, who lived at the time of the Norman conquest.[1]

An elaborate pedigree of the Wodehouse family of Norfolk is on record beginning with Sir David Wodehouse (b.1053) Father of Sir Constantine de Wodehouse (b.1080) -who was married to Lady Isobel Botetourt (b.1085). John Wodehouse (died 1431) Member of Parliament for Norfolk and Suffolk, is the first of the family to be ~historically attested~ in Norfolk and arrived there as an outside administrator for the Duchy of Lancaster.[2]

The augmented coat of arms of Wodehouse from this time has been blazoned sable a chevron or, gutte de sang, between three cinquefoils ermine with the crest on a wreath, an arm erect, holding a club in the hand and on a scroll the motto frappe forte^, i. e. "strike strong", and at the bottom Agincourt, supported by two wild men.[3] The native English term for "wild man", woodwose (from a putative Old English *wude-wāsa "wood-being"), has been transformed to woodhouse by popular etymology due to their appearance as supporters in the Woodhouse coat of arms.


Local gentry Woodhouse:

  • Thomas Woodhouse, present at the battle of Pinkie in September 1547, some sources suggest he was killed there,[5] who married Madge Shelton, possible mistress of Henry VIII and first cousin of Anne Boleyn,[6] and had Roger Woodhouse (c. 1541 – 1588), English politician, below:

Politicians Woodhouse:

Baronets Wodehouse:

Barons Wodehouse:

Earls of Kimberley:

Sir Armine Wodehouse, 5th Baronet, had an older brother, William Wodehouse (possibly 1706–1737), who died of smallpox. Other descendants of Sir Armine Wodehouse include:[7]

  • Reverend Philip Wodehouse (1745–1811), son of Sir Armine Wodehouse, 5th Baronet
    • Lt.-Col. Philip Wodehouse (1788–1846), 15th The King's Hussars (Battle of Waterloo)
      • Colonel Edwin Wodehouse (1817–1870), son of Philip Wodehouse (1773–1838)
      • Reverend Frederick Armine Wodehouse (1842 – c. 1921), son of Philip Wodehouse (1788–1846)
        • Norman Wodehouse (1887–1941), Royal Navy vice-admiral, son of Reverend Frederick Armine Wodehouse (1842 – c. 1921)
      • Henry Ernest Wodehouse (1845–1929), son of Philip Wodehouse (1788–1846)
        • P. G. Wodehouse (1881–1975), English humor writer, son of Henry Ernest Wodehouse
        • Richard Wodehouse (1892–1940), cricketer, son of Henry Ernest Wodehouse (brother of P. G. Wodehouse)
  • Edmond Wodehouse (1784–1855), MP for Norfolk, and later, Norfolk East, son of Thomas Wodehouse, younger son of Sir Armine Wodehouse, 5th Baronet
    • Philip Wodehouse (1811–1887), British colonial administrator, eldest son of Edmond Wodehouse
      • Edmond Wodehouse (1835–1914), British Unionist politician, only child of Philip Edmond Wodehouse
  • Armine Wodehouse (MP) (1860–1941), MP for Saffron Walden, a younger son of John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley

Notes

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  1. ^ Joseph Horsfall Turner, Yorkshire place names, as recorded in the Yorkshire Domenday book, 1086 (1901)
  2. ^ "WODEHOUSE, John (D.1431), of Roydon, Norf. And Crowfield, Suff. | History of Parliament Online".
  3. ^ Francis Blomefield, 'Thetford, chapter 25: Of the Corporation', An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: volume 2 (1805), pp. 132–147. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78043
  4. ^ Dashwood, G.H. (ed.). The Visitation of Norfolk in the year 1563, taken by William Harvey, Clarenceux King of Arms: Volume 1 (PDF). Norwich. p. 104.
  5. ^ Barbara Harris, 'A rhetoric of requests: genre and linguistic scripts in Elizabethan women's suitors' letters', James Daybell, Women and Politics in Early Modern England, 1450–1700 (Routledge, 2000): G. Dashwood, Visitation of Norfolk in the Year 1563, vol. 1 (Norwich, 1878), p. 104.
  6. ^ "WOODHOUSE, Roger (c.1541-88), of Kimberley, Norf. - History of Parliament Online". Historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved 17 March 2019.
  7. ^ The Marquis of Ruvigny and Ranieval, The Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal: The Mortimer-Percy, 402ff.

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