Hugh (II) de Dutton

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Living: about 1250.

Leycester (Ormerod 1:644) states that Hugh purchased Little Moldesworth for fifty marks from Matthew de Moldesworth in about 1250.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Hugh (I) de Dutton.

This relationship is given by Leycester (Ormerod 1:644).

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: a daughter of Hamon (III) de Mascy. Married about 1184-5.

This relationship is given by Leycester (Ormerod 1:644). Leycester states that they were married “regnante Henrico Secundo” (1154-1189) and that Hamon gave in free marriage lands in Sutterby, in Lindsey in Lincolnshire. His citation is “lib. C. fol., 154, e”. Barraclough (p. 259) gives the same relationship with the same citation. He gives the date as around 1184-5.

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 (III) de Dutton married Muriel le Despencer.

Thomas de Dutton.

John de Dutton.

Adam de Dutton.

Alice married William Boydell of Dodleston.

Evidence

Leycester gives both Hugh (II) and Hugh (III) four sons named in order Hugh, Thomas, John, and Adam. He does not give any dates for either Hugh (II) or Hugh (III), except that Hugh (II) bought land in about 1250. One wonders whether Hugh (II) and Hugh (III) were in fact one person, who married twice. On the other hand, the more than 60 years between the marriage of Hugh (II) and his supposed purchase of land in 1250 is suspiciously long (although not impossible). Also, Hugh (II)’s father is said by Leycester to be alive in 1135.

References

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from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms.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

The Charters of the Anglo-Norman Earls of Chester, c. 1071-1237. (Geoffrey Barraclough, ed.). (The Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Vol. CXXVI: 1988).