Hugh (Thornton) de Thornton (abt. 1255 - bef. 1304)

Born about 1255 in England

Descendants

Died before 1304 before about age 49 in Cheshire, England

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Biography

Hugh was the father of:

1. Roger, son and heir, underage in 1303;^[1] said to be aged 21 in 1306-7.^[2]

In 35th year of Edward I's reign, which was from 20 November, 1306, to 7 July, 1307, an Inquisition post mortem regarding Hugh de Thorneton was taken at Chester, which found that Hugh's next heir was his son, Roger, who was aged 21, and Hugh held on the day he died:^[2]

• of the earl of Chester in capite, the manor of Thorneton Maheu, and a moiety of the town of Pulton' Waley, by the service of a 4th part of a knight's fee, 1 burgage in the city of Chester, in free hostelage; and
• of William Launcelyn, in capite, 1 carucate of land in Pultone Launcelyn.

Sources

1. ↑ Ronald Stewart-Brown, Accounts of The Chamberlains and Other Officers of The County of Chester. (The Record Society for the Publication of Original Documents Relating to Lancashire and Cheshire, Vol. LIX, 1910) p. 41.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Peter Turner, comp, "Appendix 4. Welsh Records. Calendar of Deeds, Inquisitions, and Writs of Dower, Enrolled on the Plea Rolls of the County of Chester; Henry III and Edward I", The Twenty-Sixth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records [18 February 1865], (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1865), 54, e-book HathiTrust (https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015039450500?urlappend=%3Bseq=369%3Bownerid=34524627-368 accessed 20 June, 2022).