Alexander (Hilton) de Hilton (abt. 1260 - bef. 1303)

Born about 1260 in Hilton, Durham, England

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Descendants

Died before 1303 before about age 43 in Rennington, Northumberland, England

Birth: ABT 1260.^{[citation needed]}

Married Elizabeth.

Complete Peerage Biography of Alexander de Hilton

ALEXANDER DE HILTON, 1st s. and h. ap.^[1] His father gave him Rennington, and in Jan. 1289/90 he, as lord of Rennington, gave a piece of land to Alnwick Abbey by a charter to which his father was a witness.^[2] As Sir Alexander de Hilton, Knt., he acknowledged a debt in Dec. 1292.^[3] In Apr. 1294 he granted the manor of Lawford, Essex, to Benedict de Cokefeud.^[4] He headed the Subsidy Roll in Rennington in 1296.^[5] He m. Elizabeth.^[6] He d. v.p., probably circa 1303, when dower was assigned to his widow.^[7]

Sources

1. ↑ His father gave Swine and Winestead in Holderness to his brother William. There was another brother named German, a charter for whom is given in Hodgson, Northum., pt. ii, vol. ii, p. 347.
2. ↑ Lansdowne MS. 326, f. 66.
3. ↑ Cal. Close Rolls, 1288-96, p. 308.
4. ↑ Cal. Close Rolls, 1288-96, p. 395.
5. ↑ Hist. of Northumb., vol. ii, p. 152.
6. ↑ As widow of Alexander de Hilton she was a plaintiff in 1304 and 1308 (De Banco Roll, Trin. 32 Edw. I, m. 194., and Trin. I Edw. II, m. 241 d—Plantagenet Harrison).
7. ↑ 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), pp. 21-22.

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