Richard Bagot was a Deputy Lieutenant of Staffordshire in Queen Elizabeth I's Reign and he has been closely associated with the imprisonment of Mary Queen of Scots at both Tutbury and Chartley, near to Blithfield. The Earl of Essex, Richard's friend and neighbour, took Richard's second son, Anthony, into his household and in May 1588. Anthony wrote home to his father reporting of the Queen: "When she is abroade, no boddy neare her but my Lord of Essex; and at night my Lord is at cards, or one game or another with her, that he cometh not to his owne lodginge tyll birds singe in the morninge".
Sir Hervey Bagot, Richard's grandson, created a baronet in 1627, had to pay a fine to Parliament for his royalist sympathies. Sir Hervey's fourth son, Colonel Richard Bagot, commanded the royalist garrison at Lichfield, but was killed at the age of 27 at the Battle of Naseby and is buried in Lichfield Cathedral, where there is a fine memorial of the period to him.
Sir Hervey's grandson, Sir Walter, married Jane, the Salesbury heiress, and so acquired large estates (now sold) in Wales.
Sir Walter Wagstaffe, Sir Walter's grandson, represented the County in Parliament for many years, had a family of eight sons and eight daughters, he then was invited to represent Oxford University in Parliament in later life. Sir William, his son, took his father's place in Parliament representing the County, and was made a peer in 1780. One younger brother, Richard, married Francis Howard, heir of William Viscount Andover and assumed the name Howard. Another brother, Lewis, was Bishop of Norwich in 1782 and St. Asaph in 1790.
Then there followed William second Lord, whose brother, Sir Charles Bagot, from whom the Bagots of Levens Hall are descended, had a distinguished career culminating as Ambassador to Russia, the Netherlands and Governor of Canada. His youngest brother, Richard, was Bishop of Oxford and, later, Bath and Wells. He was succeeded by William third Lord, and William fourth Lord. Until the death of the fourth Lord (who had no son) in 1932, the inheritance had always passed from father to son, and it did not pass to the fourth Lord's nephew because, Edward Luke Henry Bagot was killed in action on the Somme in 1916 aged 19 years, so the inheritance passed to an elderly kinsman, Gerald fifth Lord.
Gerald, was succeeded by his cousin, Caryl, sixth Lord, who with his wife, Nancy, did so much to restore Blithfield. Caryl was in turn succeeded by Harry, seventh Lord, Reginald, eighth Lord, Charles, ninth Lord and his son, Shaun, the tenth Lord, who currently holds the title.