Hugh de Venables of Kinderton (living 1240s)

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Living: 1240s.

Ormerod (3:198) states that Hugh was baron of Kinderton in the time of Roger, abbot of Chester (1240-1249).

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Sir William de Venables of Kinderton.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (3:188), who cites an undated deed.

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Wentilian. Divorced (“very irregularly”).

This relationship is given by Ormerod (3:188).

Spouse: Agnes, daughter of Ranulph de Oxton.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (3:188).

Children (by Wentilian):

(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. Most information below comes from Ormerod.)

Several children (names unknown).

Children (by Agnes):

Sir Roger de Venables married Alice, daughter of Alan de Pennington of Pennington Hall, Lancashire.

Elizabeth (living 1253, 1261).

Beatrix married Roger de Toft.

Evidence

The Calendar of Patent Rolls (Henry III) (3:456) records that Hugh is included in a mandate on 11 July 1245 to relieve the siege by Dafydd ap Llywelyn of the castle of Dissard.

References

Great Britain. Public Record Office. Calendar of the patent rolls preserved in the Public Record Office--Henry III. (Nendeln, Liechtenstein: Kraus Reprint, 1971).

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from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms.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).