This family were initially based in the old Arden manor of Cudworth in Warwickshire and were descended from Thomas and Roesia. Robert Arden was executed in 1452 for supporting the uprising of Richard, Duke of York. The same fate befell Edward Arden in 1583, who came under suspicion for being head of a family that had remained loyal to the Catholic Church, and was sentenced for allegedly plotting against Elizabeth I. Edward's great-grandson Robert died unmarried and without issue in 1643, bringing the Park Hall male line to an end. See also Arden (name) Arden, Warwickshire List of monarchs of Mercia Baron Alvanley, of Alvanley in Cheshire, a title created in 1801 for senior judge Richard Pepper Arden and which passed to his sons in turn then became extinct. References English gentry families