Middlemore Family Genealogy

Throckmorton - This, one of the oldest and most notable of Worcestershire families is descended from Robert de Throckmorton, settled at a hamlet of that name in Fladbury. His grandson, also named Robert, was living 4 Edward II, 1310. They acquired Coughton, still the seat of the family, by the marriage of Sir John Throckmorton, Under Treasurer of England, 1432, with Eleanor, daughter and heiress of Guy Spiney, of Coughton. Their son, Thomas Throckmorton, by his wife Margaret, daughter and co-heir of Robert Olney of Weston, Northampton, had, amongst other children, two daughters, Margery, who married Richard Middlemore (5), of Edgbaston, and Eleanor, evidently named after her grandmother, who became wife of the above-mentioned Thomas Middlemore, of Hawkesley. Sir Robert Throckmorton, the first baronet of the family, was so created in 1642, and the present representative is Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, of Coughton Court. The arms borne by this family are, Gules, on a chevron argent, three bars gemelle sable.