William (Hilton) Hylton (abt. 1488 - aft. 1526)

Born about 1488 in Hilton, Durham, England

Ancestors

Husband of Sybil (Lumley) Hilton — married 1512 in Yorkshire, England

Descendants

Died after 2 Dec 1526 after about age 38 in Hilton, Durham, England

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Biography

William Hilton (b. c.1488/90 - d. after 1526 or c. 1535),^[1] was the son of William Hilton and Margery Bowes. He married Sybil, daughter of Sir Thomas Lumley of Lumley and Elizabeth Plantagenet. They are the parents of:

• Sir Thomas, de jure 10th Baron Hilton (b. by 1500 - d. Mar 1559).[5]^[2]
• William, esq. of Biddick, Durham (b. abt. 1508 - d. abt. 1562).^[3]
• Anne m. Ralph Hedworth of Harraton, co. Durham.^[4]

Complete Peerage Biography of Sir William Hilton

SIR WILLIAM HILTON, of Hilton, de jure, according to modern doctrine, LORD HILTON, s. and h. On 4 Aug. I506 he had special livery, without proof of age, of his father’s lands in the bishopric of Durham, saving to the King homage and fealty, and, on 8 June 1507, special livery, without proof of age, of the manor of Alston, Cumberland, and lands in Kirkhaugh, Northumberland, and Carnaby, co. York, late of his said father, William Hilton knt.^[5] On 2 June 1509 he had a general pardon, being then an esquire.^[6] He was at the battle of Flodden, 9 Sep. 1513. He was living 2 Dec. 1526.^[7] He m. Sibyl,^[8] 2nd da. of Sir Thomas LUMLEY (s. and h. ap. Of George, LORD LUMLEY), by Elizabeth, illegitimate da. of KING EDWARD IV.^[9]

Events

• 02 Dec 1526: Charter

William conveyed the manors of Hilton, Ford, Usworth, Folanceby (Follonsby?), Grindon, Bermeton (Barmston?), Biddicke (Biddick) co. Durham; Carnaby and Wharram-Percy, co. Ebor; Aldstone, Kirkhaughe, Elryngton and Woodhall, Northumberland; to:

• Sir William Bulmer
• Sir Ralph Hedworth [son-in-law, married to Anne]
• Robert Bowes of Cowton
• George Bowes of Dalden
• Robert Bowes of Aske
• John Hedworth
• and John Lambton

Disambiguation

• William Hilton, husband of Ellen Mainwaring and father of New England immigrants Edward and William, as well as Arthur.
• Hiltons (Hultons) of Lancashire.^[10]

Note that the entail that follows never took place

on trust for himself for life, with remainder intail male respectively to:

• Sir Thomas Hilton, son and heir
• William Hilton, second son
• Cuthbert, son of Thomas Hilton, late of Hedworth
• Roger, son of George Hilton, late of Wylome, York
• William Hilton, brother of Roger
• John Hilton, Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London
• Adam Hilton of Parke in Lancashire
• Thomas Hilton, Citizen and Skinner of London.

Sources

1. ↑ Bindoff (1982), calls him the de jure 9th baron, while Lewis (2004), simply names him the 9th baron.[1] A Wikipedia list, dating his death to c. 1535, calls him the de jure 8th baron, but the citations are poor.[2]
2. ↑ son Thos had no male issue; he named his bros. Wm. as his heir. ... but Wm died soon after, widowing Margaret Metcalfe of Biddick, Durham (will 1566).
3. ↑ Inventory of Wm. of Biddick in 1562.[3]
4. ↑ Hedworthe of Harraton, (Vis. of Durham, 1575 - 1666)
5. ↑ Patent Roll, 22 Hen. VII, p. 3, m. 10 or 17.
6. ↑ General pardon, 2 June I509, to William Hilton or Helton of Hilton, Ford, Durham, and Lodbury, Northumberland, esquire, eldest son and heir of William Hilton, knight, baron of Hilton (Pardon Rolls, Letters and Papers, Henry VIII, vol. i, pt. I, no. 438 (2) m. I7).
7. ↑ Grant to feoffees, by William Hilton, of Hilton kt., of his manors of Hilton, Biddick, &c., co. Durham, Carnaby and Warram Percy, co. York, Alston, Cumberland, Kirkhaugh, Elrington, and Woodhall, Northumberland, to his own use for life: rem. to the use of Thomas Hilton kt., s. and h. of the grantor, in tail male: rem. to the use of William Hilton esq., son of the grantor, in tail male: with further remainders over: 2 Dec. 18 Hen. VIII. (Durham Chancery Roll, no. 79, m. 6 6.
8. ↑ 25 May I512. Letters of Fraternity granted by the Prior and Convent of Durham to Mr. William Hilton esquire and Sibyl his wife (Surtees Society, vol. xxxi, p. 117).
9. ↑ George Edward Cokayne, The Hon. Vicary Gibbs, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom: Husee to Lincolnshire [vol. VII] (London: The St. Catherine Press, 1929), p. 30.
10. ↑ There is no relation between the Hiltons of Hilton and the branch in Lancashire ... until the reign of George I in the 18th century, when a marriage deal between the two branches is proposed. [4]

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