Hugh de Venables (died about 1383)

Sheriff of Cheshire in 1378.

Events

Date of Birth: before 1348.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Hugh was of age in 41 Edward 3 (Ormerod 3:199). A charter from the 1330s (DKPR 1875, Appendix II, p. 287-8) suggests that he was married to Ellen by then.

Date of Death: 6 February 1382/3.

Place of Death: unknown.

Helsby gives a date of 6 Richard 2 (Ormerod 3:199). Hugh's inquisition post mortem (CIPM volume 16 nos. 157-161) gives a date of the Friday in the first week of Lent last. The IPM was taken on the Thursday after St. Matthias, 6 Richard II.

Relationships

Father: Hugh de Venables of Kinderton.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (3:199).

Mother: Katherine Houghton.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (3:199).

Spouse: Ellen de Huxley.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (3:199).

Spouse: Margery de Cotton.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (3:199). Helsby adds that Margery was the sister of Hugh de Cotton of Rudheath. The Cotton pedigrees given by Ormerod elsewhere do not mention Margery. Ormerod (3:199) states that Margery was "only daughter of Hugh de Cotton", but this is contradicted by the Recognizance Rolls of Chester (DKPR 1876, pp. 167-8), which name three sisters of Margery as well as her brother, Hugh.

Children (by Ellen):

(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.)

William de Venables. (Died without issue.)

Richard de Venables. (Died without issue.)

Children (by Margery):

Sir Richard de Venables (25 July 1363 - about 1402) married Isabel de Langton.

Thomas de Venables of Horton.

William de Venables, constable of the castle of Chester, married Blanche, widow of Sir Hugh Browe.

Margery married (1) Richard Bulkeley; married (2) Randle Mainwaring.

Evidence

from ACOCC [p.234]:

Atterminations of Fines 1356-57

25s. of Hugh, son of Hugh Venables, of Kynderton.

[p. 238]

New Atterminations of Divers Persons Forfeited in Co. Chester. 1357-58

66s. 8d. of Hugh, son of Hugh de Venables, of Kynderton, chivaler.

[p. 239]

50s. of John, son of Hugh de Venables.

50s. of Hugh, brother of the said John.

From the Appendix to The Twenty-Eighth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records (Plea Rolls of Chester):

23 Edw. 3. Venables, Hugh son of Hugh le, of Kinderton, and Ralph de Brunlegh and Margery his wife. Fine -- tenements in Bradewall. [23 & 24 Edw. 3. m. 7.]

24 Edw. 3. Venables, Hugh son of Hugh de, of Kynderton, and Ralph de Brunlegh and Margaret his wife. Fine -- tenements in Bradewall. [23 & 24 Edw. 3. m. 24.]

43 Edw. 3. Venables, Hugh de, Kt., and John Colle, of Chester, and Agnes his wife. Fine -- tenements in Middlewich, Kynderton, and Newton near Middlewich. [42 & 43 Edw. 3. m. 16 d.]

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

(page 287-8):

133.. Gilbert de [Legh], chaplain, charter of, granting to Isabella, who was the wife of Robert de Huxlegh, all the lands and tenements which he, the said Gilbert, had of the gift and feoffment of Robert de Huxlegh in the towns of Huxlegh and Teverton, to hold to the said Isabella for life, with remainder to Hugh son of Hugh de Venables, and his heirs, by Ellen his wife, daughter of Robert de Huxlegh, and them failing, to the said Ellen, should she survive the said Hugh, and the heirs of her body, and them failing, to Joan daughter of William de Clifton, and wife of Matthew de Chetulton, and the heirs of her body, and them failing, to the right heirs of the said Robert; witnesses, Hugh de Venables, …. John de Legh, William de Massy, Kt., William de Praers, Roger de Bruyn, Richard de Selwe. [10 & 11 Ric. 2. m. 7 d. (11).]

(page 487):

1358, Sept. 8, Hugh son of Hugh de [Venables], of Kynderton, Kt., Hugh de Venables, of Kynderton, Kt., and Richard del Shawe, to the Earl of Chester, recognizance for 10l. [31 & 32 Edw. 3. m. 3 (3).]

1367, Dec. 16. Hugh de [Venables], David de Calvylegh, Henry de Delves, and Arthur de Davenport, to the Earl of Chester, recognizance for the issues of the lands and tenements which were of Hugh de Venables, Kt., from the day on which he died, and of which Hugh de Venables had livery, provided they should be adjudged to the Earl. [41 & 42 Edw. 3 m. 3 d. (2).]

(page 488):

1377, Oct. 27. Hugh de [Venables], appointment of, by the King, as sheriff of the county of Chester, during pleasure. [1 & 3 Ric. 2. m. 1 d. (12).]

1379, April 23. Hugh de [Venables], of Kynderton, grant to, by the King, on a fine of 400l. of the custody of two parts of the lands and tenements in the county of Chester, late of William de Bulkylegh, of Chedle, together with the wardship and marriage of Richard his son and heir, and should the said Richard die within age, then of the next heir, and so on from heir to heir; also of the reversion of the 3rd part of the same lands, which Alice, who was the wife of the said William, held in dower. [1 & 3 Ric. 2. m. 3 (4).]

1379, April 19, April 24. Hugh de [Venables], of Kynderton, writs directed to John de Scolehall, escheator of Chester, and John de Wodehouse, chamberlain, for livery of the above lands and wardship to. [1 & 3 Ric. 2. m. 3 (1), (2), (5).]

April 22. Hugh [de Venables], of Kynderton, Nicholas de Vernon, Kt., John de Leycestr’, William de Bostok, Thomas son of John de Davenport, Robert de Coton, and William de Larketon, recognizance to the King for the above-mentioned fine of 400l. [Ibid. (3).]

1379, June 6. Hugh de [Venables], of Kynderton, lease to, by the King, for life, at 100s. yearly, of the lands and tenements in Alpram, late of William de Bulkylegh, of Alpram, in the King’s hands by the outlawry for felony of Thomas de Bulkelegh brother and heir of the aforesaid William. [1 & 3 Ric.2. m. 3 d. (11).]

Hugh's inquisition post mortem (CIPM volume 16 nos. 157-161) gives this information:

Hugh died on the first Friday in Lent, 6 Richard II.

Hugh's late wife was named Margery.

Hugh's son and heir, Richard, whose mother was Margery, was born 25 July 37 Edward III at Hulm in Kynderton, and was baptized in the church of Middlewich (on the same day?)

References

Accounts of the Chamberlains and other Officers of the County of Chester. 1301-1360. (Ronald Stewart-Brown, ed.) (The Record Society for the Publication of Original Documents Relating to Lancashire and Cheshire, Vol. LIX: 1910).

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 Twenty-Eighth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records (London: 1867).

The Thirty-Sixth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records (London: 1875).