Isabel Gerard
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: William Gerard.
This relationship is recorded in a deed given below. Probably William was the William Gerard of Kingsley whose 1352 inquisition post mortem names as his heir his son William aged 30 and more. (Ormerod vol. 2, p. 96).
Mother: uncertain.
If William Gerard of Kingsley was Isabel’s father, then her mother was Matilda, daughter of Henry de Glasshowse.
Spouse: Henry de Hoton.
This relationship is recorded in a deed given below.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
William de Hoton married Katherine Torond.
David de Hoton.
Joan de Hoton.
Isabel de Hoton.
Evidence
Deeds given by Taylor (1900, pp. 187-9)
VI
THIS Indenture tripartite witnesseth that whereas William de Hotone has granted to Henry his son a yearly rent of one hundred marks to receive from his Manor of Hotone and from all his lands and tenements in Mortone Massy Pultone Launselin and Ouptone as in the writing of the said William made thereof to the aforesaid Henry more fully is contained It is agreed by common assent between the parties aforesaid that the aforesaid writing of one hundred marks shall be delivered to the Abbot of Basingwercke to hold keep safe and deliver in the form hereafter following, that is to know, the aforesaid William grants for him and for his heirs that if so it be that the aforesaid William do disinherit by any deed or feoffment or other estate which he makes whereby the aforesaid Manor lands or tenements aforesaid after the decease of the said William do not wholly remain to the said Henry his son and the heirs whom he shall beget of the body of Isabel his wife the daughter of William Gerard that then the aforesaid writing of one hundred marks shall be delivered to the aforesaid Henry or to his heirs begotten of the body of the beforesaid Isabel as is aforesaid to use in its force And if the aforesaid William do not make a deed or feoffment whereby the aforesaid Henry his son or the heirs whom he shall beget of the body of the aforesaid Isabel shall be disinherited contrary to the form aforesaid that then the aforesaid writing of one hundred marks shall be of no force or value. IN WITNESS of which things to the one part of these Indentures remaining with the aforesaid William the aforesaid Henry has set his seal And to the other part of these Indentures remaining with the aforesaid Henry the aforesaid William has set his seal And to the third part of these Indentures, that is to know, to the foot remaining with the aforesaid Abbot of Basingwercke which by assent of the parties is warrant to the said Abbot to hold and deliver in the form above said the aforesaid William and Henry have set their seals. These witnesses : Robert de Bebyntone, John de Capenhurst, Gilbert de Podyntone and Alysander de Waley and John de Bebyntone and others.
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 Rylands Charters indexed at https://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/29f0299f-5da1-342a-97a8-be3f70529866
Taylor, Henry. “On some early Deeds relating to the families of Hoton of Hooton, and Stanley of Storeton and Hooton” in the Journal of the Architectural, Archaeological and Historic Society for the County and the City of Chester and North Wales, new series vol. vi. (1899).