Middlemore Family Genealogy

Goodwin.-The will of John Goodwyn the elder, of Over Wynchenden, Bucks, gentleman, was proved in 1558. He mentions his daughters, but not by name. His wife was Katherine, daughter and co-heir of Thomas Bledlow, and they had eighteen children. Their brass is at Over Winchendon. From them descended the noble family of Wharton, of whom the last, Philip, Duke of Wharton, was outlawed for high treason in 1729, though in 1845 the House of Lords resolved that the outlawry was irregular. The arms of Goodwin are, Per pale or and gules a lion rampant between three fleurs-de-lis 211 counterchanged.