Sir Hugh Fitton

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: before 1271.

Place of Death: unknown.

This date is given by Ormerod (3:552).

Relationships

Father: Sir Richard Fitton, lord of Bolyn.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (3:552), by Hulton (Coucher Book 3:846 n, quoting a grant to Sir Hugh from his father), and by Barraclough (p. 456).

Mother: Ellen.

This relationship is given by Ormerod (3:552).

Spouse: unknown.

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.)

Sir Edmund Fitton (died 1297/8) married Joyce.

Margery married Robert de Downes.

Evidence

Hugh was witness to several charters of contemporary earls of Cheshire. Earl John "the Scot" granted him the manor of Rushton and the vills of Great and Little Eaton, soon forfeited for felony (Barraclough no. 454, dated 1233-1236); and permission to make a park at Rushton (Baraclough no. 455, dated 1233-1236).

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from original evidences in public offices, the Harleian and Cottonian mss., parochial registers, private muniments, unpublished ms.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 Charters of the Anglo-Norman Earls of Chester, c. 1071-1237. (Geoffrey Barraclough, ed.). (The Record Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, Vol. CXXVI: 1988).

The Coucher Book, or Chartulary, of Whalley Abbey, Volume 3. (W.A. Hulton, ed.) (Chetham Society Vol. XVI, 1848).