Littleton baronets

Thomas de Littleton became 'one of the great law luminaries of his country, and is immortalized by one work alone, his celebrated Treatise on Tenures.

They had three sons, William, Richard and Thomas, from whom originated three lines of landed gentry in the West Midlands, all of which acquired baronetcies in the 17th century.

The greater part of the wealth of Thomas and Joan passed to their eldest son, Sir William Littleton of Frankley, Worcestershire.

Richard married Alice Winesbury or Wynnesbury, heiress of Pillaton Hall, near Penkridge, in Staffordshire.

[4] The Baronetcy became extinct in 1812 on the death of the 4th Baronet, who had moved the seat of the family to Teddesley Hall and whose heir was a nephew, Edward John Walhouse.

Sir Thomas de Littleton, ancestor of the Littleton families of Frankley , Penkridge and Stoke Milburgh. An 18th-century engraving after a 15th-century painting.
Remains of Pillaton Old Hall, near Penkridge , Staffordshire . The original moated manor house became ruinous, but the Gatehouse and Chapel were restored in the 1880s.