Middlemore Family Genealogy

Lyttelton.-This ancient family derives its name from the Worcestershire village of Littleton, near Evesham. Thomas de Luttleton, in 1 g Henry III (1234-5), married Emma, daughter and sole heiress of Sir Simon de Frankley, knight ; their issue apparently became extinct, and about 1410, Thomas Luttelton, descended from the former Thomas by another wife, became lord of Frankley after prolonged litigation. He married Maud Quatremain, and their grandson and heir, Thomas Westcote, took the name of Littleton, became serjeant-at-law, and wrote the famous text-book, Littleton on Tenures. He married Joan, widow of Sir Thomas Chetwynd of Ingestre, a daughter and co-heiress of Sir William Burley,knight, of Broomscross Castle, Shropshire, and had three sons, William, his heir, from whom the Lords Lyttelton derive descent, Richard and Thomas. Richard, the second son, married Alice, daughter and heiress of William Winesbury of Pillaton Hall, Staffordshire, and had issue two sons and four daughters, of whom the youngest, Anne, married Thomas Middlemore of Edgbaston. The Lytteltons bore these arms : Argent, a chevron between three escallop shells sable.