Hugh de Ravenscroft

Seneschal of Hope and Hopedale in 1430.

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Living: 1437/8.

The date is given by Ormerod (3:208).

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

(probable) Father: Henry de Ravenscroft (died about 1427).

This relationship is given by Ravenscroft (p. 4) and by Ormerod (3:208). Lloyd (5:266) and the 1580 visitation of Cheshire (Rylands p. 194) give William Ravenscroft. Henry is recorded as Hugh's father in a pardon to Hugh in the Recognizance Rolls of Chester abstracted by the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records (1876, p. 610). On the other hand, the Middlewich Chartulary (p. 273) records a 1444 grant by Hugh, son of William Ravenscroft of Middlewich.

Mother: Agnes de Cotton.

This relationship is recorded in the Recognizance Rolls of Chester (DKPR 1876, Appendix II, page 168).

Spouse: Isabel Holland.

This relationship is given by Ravenscroft (p. 4), by Ormerod (3:208), by Lloyd (5:266), and by the 1580 visitation of Cheshire (Rylands p. 194).

Children:

Henry Ravenscroft (died 1486), said to have married Joanna Radcliffe.

Evidence

From the Thirty-Sixth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records Appendix II (Recognizance Rolls of Chester):

(page 441):

1405. John [Squier], of Sainsbury, memorandum of the payment, by William de Venables, of Kinderton, to Henry, Abbot of St. Werburgh, of 20 marks, by the hands of Hugh de Ravenscroft, who delivered the same to William de Clopton, parson of the church of Dodleston, in presence of John de Wylaston, parson of the church of St. Mary on the Hill, &c., as in the foregoing entry. [6 & 7 Hen. 4. m. 1 d. (11).]

(page 399):

1406, Aug. 1. Hugh de [Ravenscroft], Thomas de Wodeward, John Lowe, and Thomas de Maysham, commission of, by Henry Prince of Wales, as justices to deliver the gaol of the castle of Chester of the body of Cona ap Eign’ Moil, imprisoned as a follower of Owen Glyndordy. [6 & 7 Hen. 4. m. 4 d. (6).]

1408, May 1. Hugh de [Ravenscroft], commission of, by Henry Prince of Wales, as steward of Hope and Hopedale, during pleasure. [8 & 9 Hen. 4. m. 8 d. (1).]

From the Thirty-Seventh Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records Appendix II (Recognizance Rolls of Chester):

(p. 610):

Ravenscroft.

1418, Oct. 1. Hugh de, appointment of, as steward of the town and lordship of Hope and Hopedale during pleasure. [6 & 7 Hen. 5.m. 1 (1).]

1435, May 6. Henry de, “mandamus” to the escheator of Chester to inquire of what possessions the said Henry died seized.[13 & 14 Hen. 6 .m. 7 d. (1).]

1437. Hugh son of Henry, late escheator of the county of Chester, general pardon to. [16 & 17 Hen. 6 m. 5 (2).]

Hugh is a surety to a 1439 grant (p. 194).

References

Lloyd, Jacob Youde William. The history of the princes, the lords marcher and the ancient nobility of Powys Fodog and the ancient lords of Arwystli, Cedewen and Meirionydd. (London: T. Richards, 1881-1887).

A Middlewich Chartulary. Joan Varley, ed., (Chetham Society v. 105 and v. 108: 1941 and 1944).

Ormerod, George; Peter Leycester; William Smith; William Webb; and Thomas Helsby. The history of the county palatine and city of Chester: compiled from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms. collections of successive Cheshire antiquaries, and a personal survey of every township in the county, incorporated with a republication of King's Vale royal and Leycester's Cheshire antiquities. (London: G. Routledge, 1882).

Ravenscroft, William, and Raymond Bathurst Ravenscroft. The Family of Ravenscroft. (London: Mitchell, Hughes and Clarke, 1915), page 5.

Rylands, J. Paul. The Visitation of Cheshire in the Year 1580 ... (London, 1882), p. 195, citing Harl. 1424, fo. 120.

The Thirty-Sixth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records. (London: 1875).

The Thirty-Seventh Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records. (London: 1876).