Bode, THE BARONS DE

Bode, THE BARONS DE, a family known in England in connection with a claim for indemnity frequently brought before parliament. The claim was maintained by Baron Clement, the grandson of Charles de Bode, a baron of the Holy Roman empire, whose son, born in England of an English mother, was one of those originally included in the payment made by France in 1814 to indemnify British residents who had suffered by confiscation during the Revolution. As his estates had been held under German tenure, and he was not a British subject, the English government repudiated his claim in 1852. See The Baroness de Bode, by W. S. Childe-Pemberton (1900), a history of the family and its misfortunes.