Events
Date of Birth: unknown..
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: unknown.
Place of Death: unknown.
Relationships
Father: Peter de Cotton.
Peter is given by Earwaker (p. 5) as the father of Agnes’s sister, Ellen, without citing a source. Ormerod gives Hugh de Cotton as the father of Agnes’s sister Margery, but some information he gives is contradicted by the Recognizance Rolls of Chester.
Mother: unknown.
Spouse: Henry de Ravenscroft.
Agnes is recorded as the mother of Hugh in the Recognizance Rolls of Chester (DKPR 1876 Appendix II, p. 167-8).
Children:
(Complete source citations for facts about the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project. )
Hugh de Ravenscroft married Isabel Holland.
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).
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 Thirty-Seventh Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records. (London: 1876).