Baron
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: 1310 or 1311.
Place of Death: unknown.
Ormerod (3:189, 3:199) states that Hugh died in 4 Edward II.
Relationships
Father: William de Venables.
This relationship is given by Ormerod (3:188, 3:199). It is recorded in a pedigree from a plea roll of 24-25 Edw. III (about 1350) given by Wrottesley (p. 117).
Mother: Margaret Dutton.
This relationship is given by Ormerod (3:188, 3:199).
Spouse: Agatha de Vernon. Married about 1295.
This relationship is given by Ormerod (3:188, 3:199).
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 Venables married (1) Elizabeth de Mobberley; married (2) Katherine de Houghton.
Reginald de Venables.
Roger Venables (living 1336).
John Venables (living 1336).
William Venables (living 1336). Helsby suggests he may have been older than his brother Hugh, and that Hugh became the heir when William died.
Ellen Venables married John de Arderne.
Isabel Venables married Isabel de Egerton.
Anilla de Venables married William Brereton of Brereton.
Elizabeth married Richard Done of Utkinton.
Evidence
from ACOCC [p. 40]:
Foreign Receipts [1303-4]
Of Sir Hugh Venables for arrears of his relief, in monies paid by the hands of Sir Robert de Chishull and Master Richard the engineer of Chester, 32nd year...20l.
Of the said Sir Hugh de Venables, one of the collectors of the 15th in the [ ] year, and his pledges, for amercements in the King’s exchequer, because he did not come for two turns … 30s.
[p. 60]
Amercement [1303-4]
Hugh de Venables for licence to agree… 5s.
The Calendar of Patent Rolls (Edw. II) (1:82) records that Hugh was given a commission to raise 400 men (with John de Arderne) for the expedition to Scotland in 1308.
The Calendar of Patent Rolls (Edw. II) (1:339) records on 25 April 1311, William de Cheegnay was granted custody of the lands of Hugh de Venables, tenant in chief, during the minority of the heir, together with his marriage.
The Calendar of Patent Rolls (Edw. III) (3:227) records (in 1344) that on 13 April 1301 at Chester Hugh did homage and fealty to Edward, the prince of Wales and earl of Chester. (Hugh is listed as a baron).
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).
Great Britain. Public Record Office. Calendar of the patent rolls preserved in the Public Record Office--Edward II. (Nendeln, Liechtenstein: Kraus Reprint, 1971).
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).
Wrottesley, George. Pedigrees from the plea rolls: collected from the pleadings in the various courts of law A.D. 1200 to 1500, from the original rolls in the Public Records Office. (1905).