Margery de Hoton
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: William de Hoton.
This relationship is given in the Ryland Charters and in the inquisition post mortem of Margery’s husband William.
Mother: Katherine Torond.
The inquisition post mortem of Margery’s husband William names her mother Katherine. William de Hooton’s inquisition post mortem names Katherine’s father.
Spouse: Sir William de Stanley.
This relationship is recorded in the Ryland Charters.
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Sir William Stanley (died 1419) married Blanche Savage.
Edmund Stanley
John Stanley
Peter Stanley
Rowland Stanley
Joan Stanley married (1) Robert de Parys; married (2) Gwilym ap Griffith in 1413; married (3) John Pykemere of Caernarfon.
Evidence
from the Ryland Charters:
http://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb133-rych/rych/1673
RYCH/1673
Hooton
10 Jan 1376
Agreement between William de Hoton and William de Stanlegh the elder relating to the marriage of William, son of the latter, and Margery, daughter of the former.
http://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb133-rych/rych/1799
RYCH/1799
Stanley
14 Jan 1376
Grant by William de Stanlegh the elder, to William, his son, and Margery, daughter of William de Hoton.
http://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb133-rych/rych/1379
RYCH/1379
Hooton
7 Apr 1402
Indenture between William de Stanley, knight, Margery, his wife, and William de Stanley, their son, of the one part, and Isabel, widow of Robert de Pulle, John de Pulle, knight, and James de Pulle, his son, concerning lands, rights, etc., in Pulle [Poole], Netherpulle [Netherpool], Hoton [Hooton], etc.
http://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/data/gb133-rych/rych/1754
RYCH/1754
Poulton Lancelyn
26 Dec 1406
Deed of exchange from William de Stanley, knight, and Margery, his wife, daughter of William de Hoton, to John, son of William Launcelyn.
from Ormerod (vol. 2, p. 411-12):
[By] Inq. p. m. 6. Hen. VI. [Sir William de Stanley] is stated to have held in demesne as of fee, the manor of Hoton, by law of England, as in right of his wife, Margery, daughter and heir of William de Hoton and Katherine his wife, [as in fee tail,] from the baron of Shipbrook, [as of his manor of Shipbrook,] val. per ann. xx [pounds, not] marks...
(vol. 2, p. 415):
Margaretam, que fuit ux’ Will’i de Stanley, militis versus Will’m de Stanley, armig’um for dower, 9 Hen. 5, 1421. (Plea Rolls) [This date seems to be wrong. The case must have happened after William’s death in 1428.]
from Taylor (pp. 194-5):
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KNOW all by these presents that I Henry son of William de Hoton have remised released and altogether for me and my heirs have quitclaimed for ever to William de Stanley knight and Margery his wife and to the heirs of her the said Margery all my right and claim which I have, had, or in any wise might have in all lands tenements rents and services rights and claims meadows feedings pastures woods fisheries moors marshes marlpits vivaries turbaries waters mills pools paths bondmen with their sequels and other their appurtenances whatsoever which were of Thomas son of Ralph de Hoton in Hoton in Wirrall in the county of Chester AND also have remised released &c. for ever to the said William de Stanley and Margery and to the heirs of her the said Margery all my right and claim which I have, had, or in any wise might have in all lands and tenements rents and services &c. (as before) which were of the aforesaid William de Hoton my father in Roghshotewyke in Wirall in the said county of Chester AND also have remised released &e. to the said William de Stanley and Margery and to the heirs of her the said Margery all my right & claim &c. (as before) in all lands &c. which were of the aforesaid William de Hoton my father in Westhrope in the comity of Northampton AND also have remised released and altogether for me and my heirs have quitclaimed for ever to the said William de Stanley and Margery their heirs and executors all manner of other actions real and personal which I have, had, or in any wise might have against them from the beginning of the world up to the day of the making of these presents So that neither I nor my heirs nor any other in our name any right or claim in the said lands tenements rents services rights and claims meadows &c. whatsoever or in any parcel of the same as is aforesaid and also in all other actions real and personal abovesaid any action of right or claim therefor or of any parcel of the same henceforth shall be able to demand or challenge in any wise in future but from all action of right and claim therefor henceforth to be had or in any wise demanded shall be excluded for ever by these presents AND I truly the aforesaid Henry and my heirs all the aforesaid lands tenements rents and services etc. and their other appurtenances whatsoever as is aforesaid to the said William de Stanley and Margery and to the heirs of her the said Margery against all people will warrant and defend for ever IN WITNESS whereof to this my present charter I have set my seal. These witnesses: John de Pulle Knight, John de Whitemore, Hamon de Mascy, Janies de Pulle, John de Kytherlonde, John del Meoles, John Hope and John Launcelyn and many others. Given at Hoton on Tuesday the vigil of Saint Cuthbert bishop and confessor in the tenth year of the reign of King Henry the fourth after the Conquest.
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).