Peter de Cotton

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: unknown.

Place of Death: unknown.

Relationships

Father: unknown.

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: unknown.

Children:

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Hugh de Cotton (died 1418).

Margery de Cotton married Hugh de Venables.

Alice de Cotton married Henry de Cranenache.

Ellen de Cotton married Hugh de Sondebache.

Agnes de Cotton married Henry de Ravenscroft.

Evidence

From The Thirty-Seventh Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records Appendix II (Recognizance Rolls of Chester):

(pp. 167-8):

1418-19, March 17. Hugh de [Cotton], of Rudheath, writ “ouster le main,” setting forth the finding of an Inquisition, viz., that the said Hugh held not any lands in the county of Chester of the Earl of Chester, in capite by knight’s service; that he died seized in his desmesne, as of fee, of 8 ½ acres 8 perches of land in Cranenache within the limits and bounds of Rudheth, held of the Earl of Chester, in socage, at 6d. yearly for every acre; also of 1 messuage and 16 acres of land in “Le Leghes” near Cranenache, in fee-tail, of the abbot of the monastery of St. Werburgh, Chester, in socage by the service yearly of half a pound of cinnamon; also of 1 messuage and ½ an acre of land in Middlewich and Kinderton, held of the lord of Kinderton in socage by the service of one fathering yearly; also of 1 salt-pit and two parts of two salt-pits in Middlewich, not known of whom held; that the said Hugh died on the Friday next after the Feast of St. Hilary, 4 Hen. 5.; that Hugh son of Hugh son of Richard, Kt., son of Hugh de Venables, of Kinderton, and Margery his wife, one of the sisters of the said Hugh de Cotton, and of the age of 13 years or more; Alice, who was the wife of Henry de Cranenache, and another sister of the said Hugh; Ellen, wife of Hugh de Sondebache and third sister of the said Hugh; and Hugh de Ravenscroft, son of Agnes, fourth sister of the aforesaid Hugh, were the next heirs of the said Hugh; that one Hugh de Coton, a bastard, had held the lands and tenements aforesaid after the decease of the said Hugh, and taken the profits, unknown by what right; and commanding a division of the lands to be made, and livery to be made to the said Alice, Ellen, and Hugh de Ravenscroft of their shares of the same. [6 & 7 Hen. 5. m. 5 (7).]

References

Earwaker, John Parsons. The History of the Ancient Parish of Sandbach, co. Chester. (1890).

The Thirty-Seventh Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records. (London: 1876).