Person:Elizabeth De Littleton (1)

Elizabeth was the sole heir of Baron Thomas de Littleton and his wife, Ann (or Maud) Quartermain, daughter of Sir Richard Quartermain^[1]. Through the five generations from Sir Simon de Frankly [Whitman's genealogy shows only 4 generations - Simon de Frankly > Emma de Frankly (wife of Thomas de Littleton (1st)) > Thomas de Littleton (2nd) > Elizabeth de Littleton], Elizabeth retained the Frankly estate in Worcestershire, and soon following her marriage to Thomas de Wescote, they went there to live^[1], their son, Guido retaining the manor of Wescote in Devonshire. The ancestry of the wife of Guido de Wescote, who was Alice Granville, reverts to a cousin of the conqueror.

Not content with their firstborn son, Thomas taking the surname of his mother, Littleton, Elizabeth also wished Guedo, Edmond and Nicholas to take her surname. She would not permit them to share equally with their brother Thomas in her estate, so they retained the name of Wescote. This appears to have created something of a family discord which culminated in 1450 in Guedo, the second eldest son, registering his Coat of Arms with the motto Renovato nomine, meaning the name renewed. The use of clasped hands issuing from clouds suggests the family discord.^[1]

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Whitman, Roscoe L. (Roscoe Leighton). History and genealogy of the ancestors and some descendants of Stukely Westcott: one of the thirteen original proprietors of Providence Plantation and the colony of Rhode Island with especial mention of the Westcotts of Cheshire, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, and the Westcotts of Milford, Otsego County, New York and some of the allied families. (Oneonta, New York: Otsego Publishing Co., 1932)
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