A stained glass window in St Winifred's church, Kingston on Soar, bearing the Babington (sometimes spelled Babbington) family coat of arms.
"On the south side, near to the east end, is a window commissioned by the parish to celebrate the millennium in the year 2000. Most of the window remains clear glass, but it carries the Babbington coat of arms, including the motto “FOY EST TOUT” (Faith is all). In a panel beneath this is the inscription:
BABINGTON
1538
INSTALLED TO
CELEBRATE
A.D. 2000"SOURCE - (
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"The Babington family (sometimes Babbington) is an English and Anglo-Irish gentry family descending from Sir John de Babington, lord of the manor of Babington (now Bavington), in Northumberland, who was living in 1178. The family were primarily landowners in Derbyshire (Dethick inheritance), Northumberland, Leicestershire, County Cork, County Donegal and County Londonderry. Family seats included Rothley Court, Dethick Manor, Creevagh House, Roe Park House, Chilwell Hall, Curborough Hall and Packington Hall. The family has routinely produced members who have successively occupied posts such as High Sheriff, Lord Lieutenant and Member of Parliament.
The Babingtons inherited Dethick Manor (through the marriage of Thomas Babington (died 1464) to Isabel Dethick, daughter of Robert Dethick) on Robert's death in 1403. Thomas and Isabel (née Dethick) had two children: Sir John Babington of Dethick (see above) and William Babington, who was President of the Order of Saint Benedict in England. Sir Anthony Babington, Sir John (d. 1485)'s grandson who also held land at Kingston, was Member of Parliament for Nottingham from 1529-1536. Sir Anthony's son Thomas (d. 21 April 1560) by his first wife Elizabeth Ormond (d. 28 November 1505) was Justice of the Peace for Derbyshire in 1558 and married Katherine Sacheverell, with whom he had issue including Henry Babington (who married Mary Darcy, daughter of George Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy of Aston, who was mother to Anthony Babington and Maud Babington, who married Christopher Plunkett, 8th Baron of Dunsay, among others). Another son by Sir Anthony's first wife Elizabeth was Bernard, who was father to Rt. Rev Gervase Babington.
Gervase Babington served in the Church of England from 1591-1610, and served as the Bishop of Llandaff (1591–1594), Bishop of Exeter (1594–1597) and Bishop of Worcester from 1597-1610. Bishop Babington was an attendee at the Hampton Court Conference and contributed ideas towards the Lord's Prayer, Ten Commandments and Five Books of Moses.
Anthony Babington (died 1586) was the orchestrator of the so-called "Babington Plot" which aimed to replace the Protestant Queen Elizabeth I with the catholic Mary, Queen of Scots. The plot led to the execution of both Anthony Babington and Queen Mary, together with other conspirators.
Following the execution of Anthony Babington in 1586, the lands at Dethick and Kingston passed to his younger brother Francis, who sold much of the land to Gilbert Talbot, 7th Earl of Shrewsbury and died in 1618, passing the remaining lands to his younger brother George, who sold the remaining land."
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