Godfrey Hilton (1419 - 1472)

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Biography

Sir Godfrey HIlton, of Irnham, Lincolnshire, Hooton Pagnell, Yorkshire, Gamston and Bridgeford-by-Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, etc. was born on November 9, 1419 (aged 40 in 1459) the son and heir of Godfrey Hilton and Hawise Luttrell.^[1][2]

In 1463 he sued the Mayor and Corporation of London for an illegal entry into seven messuages in the parish of St. Sepulchre in the Ward of Farringdon Without, London.^[1][2]

He married probably in 1453, Margery Willoughby, daughter of Hugh Willoughby, Knt., of Wollarton, Nottinghamshire, and Middleton, Warwickshire. They had one son, Godfrey, Esq., and two daughters, Elizabeth and Hawise (wife of Lawrence Breuern, Gent.).^[1][2]

He d. May 18, 1472.^[1][2]

Research Notes

Richardson grants his ancestors the de jure title Lord Luttrell but they held manors (with Hooton Pagnell apparently a feudal barony) and were not summoned to Parliament; Godfrey was the heir general of this family and theoretically the Barony created in 1295.

Through the families of Hilton, Thimbleby and Conquest, Irnham passed to Mary Christina Arundell (1764-1805) who m. James Everard Arundell, 9th Baron Arundell of Wardour. Mary and her sister Eleanor (1766-1835) who m. Charles Clifford, 6th Baron Clifford of Chudleigh would have been the senior heirs to the Barony of Luttrell.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3} Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham, (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), Vol V, p. 328, Godfrey Hilton and p. 454 Margaret Willoughby.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 1st Ed., p 873

• Royal Ancestry by Douglas Richardson, Vol. III. p. 40

Acknowledgments

Magna Carta Project

Godfrey Hilton appears in Magna Carta Ancestry in a Richardson-documented trail from Gateway Ancestor Olive Welby to Magna Carta Surety Barons Hugh le Bigod and Roger le Bigod (vol. IV, pages 298-302 WELBY). This trail has not yet been developed by the Project and is outlined in the Magna Carta Trails section of Richard Welby's profile.

• Needs Development: This profile needs development against the project's checklist to bring it up to current project standards. ~ Thiessen-117 23:33, 29 September 2020 (UTC)

See Base Camp for more information about identified Magna Carta trails and their status. See the project's glossary for project-specific terms, such as a "badged trail".

Also see Magna Carta Lines of Olive (Welby) Farwell for more trails that need development ~ Hess-2099 17:26, 9 March 2020 (UTC)