In the west window of All Saints church, Leamington Hastings, there are a number of coats of arms of Trevor and Wheler and their alliances.
The majority of the shields are for members of the Wheler (Wheeler) family with their arms of
Or a Chevron between three Leopard's Faces Sable on the left hand side. The right hand side of the emblem would normally depict a spouse, although these have not been identified.
In
'Complete Baronetage Vol.III' - Cokayne, George E. (George Edward), 1825-1911 pp.106 - 109 (
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"Charles Lyttelton, a former Lord Bishop of Carlisle, and from an old Worcestershire family, said that the Whelers were seated in Worcestershire as early as Edward II. and bore coat armour.
In a manuscript volume in the possession of Hanbury, Esq. of Kilmash, Northamptonshire, entitled, Worcestershire Collected, by Sir William Dethick, Knt. Garter King of Arms, 1569, since enlarged by others.
George Wheler, of Martin, in Worcestershire; Chester, 1585. Quarterly, first and fourth, or, a cheveron between three leopards faces of the second.
Di Pirie. Second, argent, a bend sable, chased with three pears, or.
Third, argent, on a cheveron engrailed, sable, three buckles azure, as many martlets, or.
Old arms of Wheler; for, in the east window of the chancel of Martin Hussingtree, in Worcestershire, these arms are quarterly:
Argent, on a cheveron engrailed, sable, between three buckles, azure, as many martlets, or. Wheler.[a]
Argent, on a bend, sable, three pears, or. Pirie.
As the second.
As the first.
Nash, in his Collections for the history of Worcestershire, says, that William Wheler presented to the living of Martin,
jure Johanne uxoris sue sororis Thome Pyrye defuncti. Be that as it may, William Wheler, with Joan, his wife, had two sons:
John, who married Bridget, daughter of —— Walwyn, and died without issue.
Humphrey, the second son, and heir to his brother, married Joan, daughter of William Davies, one daughter, Bridget, who died unmarried and had three sons:
George, (see below).
Edmund, later of Riding-Court, in Buckinghamshire was knighted Knt. and was Sheriff of Buckinghamshire, (1615 (13th year James I), and married Elizabeth, daughter and heiress of Richard Hanbury, of London, but left no issue.
John, left no issue.
George Wheler, of Martin Hussingtree, in Worcestershire, the eldest son of William Wheler of Crouche (see above), married Elizabeth, daughter of J. Arnold (or Hernold), of Higham, in Gloucestershire, with whom he had two sons:
William, the eldest son, married Elizabeth, daughter and sole heiress of Sir Edward Puleston [Arms: sa. three mullets ar], of Allington, Knt. second son of Sir Edward Puleston, of Emerhall, in Flintshire, by Margaret his wife, daughter and heiress of John Aimer, of Aimer, Esq. and of Winifrid his wife, only sister of Sir Thomas Trevor, Knt. with whom he had one son: Charles (later the 2nd Baronet), and one daughter Elizabeth, the wife of Richard Binckes, vicar of Leamington Hastings, dean of Lichfield, and prolocutor of the lower house of convocation, and the strenuous assertor of the privileges of that venerable body.
John, who married Martha, daughter of Robert Kerrick, of Leicester, and was father of two sons:
John (born 1607), who married Friselina, daughter of George Warde, of Capeston, in Cheshire; he died, before his brother received a baronetcy leaving one daughter. Friselina afterwards married Lionel Copley, of Wadesworth, in Yorkshire.
William (1610), the first baronet of this family (see below).
one or two daughters: Mary (born 1608), and Eleanor, who married Samuel Randall.
After the Restoration, Charles Wheler was a favourite at court and he obtained the baronetcy, with special remainder to himself, for his elder cousin Sir William Wheler, 1st Baronet, and 1666 on the death of the death of Sir William, Charles Wheler succeeded to the baronetcy. However Sir William and Charles Wheler had fallen out, apparently over Charles urging Sir William to execute a settlement of his estates upon Charles, so instead of doing what Charles wanted, Sir William left the bulk of is estate to others and Charles only received an annual stipend of £120.
The ninth Baronet was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army and served throughout the Peninsular War and at the Battle of Waterloo. The tenth Baronet was a Lieutenant-General in the Army."
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