Hugh (I) de Dutton

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Living: about 1130.

Leycester (Ormerod 1:643) states that Hugh (I) gave William, son of William, son of Nigel, a palfrey and a sparrowhawk about the end of the reign of Henry I (1135). Hugh (I)’s father gave William, son of Nigel, a gift at the same time. Leycester’s citation is “Lib. C. fol. 154, b”. However, Keats-Rohan (p. 307) states that Hugh, son of Hodard, died about 1129-1130.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Hugh, son of Hodard.

This relationship is given by Leycester (Ormerod 1:643).

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: unknown.

Children:

(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.)

Hugh (II) de Dutton, son and heir, married a daughter of Hamon de Mascy.

Adam de Dutton, from whom the Warburtons of Astley are descended.

Geoffrey de Dutton, from whom the Duttons of Cheadle in Cheshire, were descended. They later assumed the surname Chedill.

Commentary

The chronology surrounding this Hugh is suspiciously long, although not impossible: his father died about 1129-1130, and his son bought land about 1250.

References

Keats-Rohan, K.S.B. Domesday People (1999).

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from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms.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