Hugh (III) de Dutton

According to Leycester (Ormerod 1:644), Hugh had the “magistracy, or rule and authority, over all the letchers and whores of all Cheshire.”

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: Hugh (II) de Dutton.

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

Mother: a daughter of Hamon (III) de Mascy.

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

Spouse: Muriel, daughter of Thomas le Despencer.

This relationship is given by Leycester (Ormerod 1:644). Leycester’s cite is “lib. C. fol. 139, b”.

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 de Dutton (living 1234). Son and heir. Died without issue.

Sir Thomas de Dutton married Philippa de Standon. Thomas was heir to his brother, Hugh.

John de Dutton.

Adam de Dutton.

Commentary

Leycester gives this Hugh and also his father, Hugh, four sons named in order Hugh, Thomas, John, and Adam. No dates are given for either Hugh, except that the elder Hugh bought land in about 1250. One wonders whether there was in fact one Hugh who married twice.

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from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms.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