Hugh (Venables) de Venables Knt (1330 - bef. 1383)

Born 1330 in Kinderton cum Hulme, Northwich, Cheshire

Ancestors

Husband of Margery (Cotton) Venables — married 1364 in Cheshire, England

Descendants

Died before 14 May 1383 before age 53 in Kinderton Cum Hulme ,Cheshire, England

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Biography

Hugh de Venables of Kinderton^[1]

Hugh de Venables was born in 1330 at Kinderton cum Hulme, Cheshire, England. He was the son of Hugh de Venables and Katherine de Houghton. He died in 1383.

He was the son of Sir Hugh Venables, baron of Kinderton, and his wife, Katherine Houghton.

Hugh was the brother of:

1. Joane Venables;
2. Roger Venables;
3. Thomas Venables;
4. Richard Venables;

Hugh married twice:

1. Ellen Huxlegh in 1357. Ellen was born about 1336 and died in 1361. They had no children.
2. Margery Cotton, after 1361; Margery was the daughter of Hugh de Coton of Rudheath, and they had children:
   1. Anilla Venables, born circa 1365;
   2. Margery Venables, who was married to 1) Richard Bulkeley, and 2) Randle Mainwaring;
   3. Richard Venables, born on or before 14 November, 1363, son and heir, married Isabel, daughter of Ralph de Langeton;^[1] Sir Richard Venables of Kinderton, Sheriff of Cheshire;
   4. Eva (Joan) Venables, who was married to Sir Thomas Foulshurst;
   5. William Venables;
   6. Thomas Venables;

An important natural resource of Cheshire was salt: Below the surface of the county lie large deposits of saline rock, the presence of which may well have been known to the Romans. . . In the Middle Ages, the salt producing towns were called, collectively, the Wiches, — Nantwich, Middlewich, Northwich. Mediaeval Cheshire, Large areas of salt lands were owned by abbeys and clerics, but: Lay owners of salt houses, where salt pans filled with salt water were boiled, were even more numerous and diverse in status. . . . Among the proprietors of salt houses, land, or messuages in the Wiches were Venables and many other Cheshire families,

Sir Hugh Venables of Kinderton was sheriff of Cheshire.^[2]

On 25 April, 1379, the king, Richard II, granted to Hugh de Venables, of Kinderton, on a fine of 400l, the custody of two parts of the lands and tenements in the county of Chester, late of William de Bulkylegh, of Chedle, together with the wardship and marriage of Richard his son and heir, and should the said Richard die within age, then of the next heir, and so on from heir to heir; also of the reversion of the 3rd part of the same lands, which Alice, who was the wife of the said William, held in dower.^[1] On 22 April, 1379, a recognizance by Hugh, Nicholas de Vernon, Kt, John de Leycestr', William de Bostok, Thomas son of John Davenport, Robert de Coton, and William de Larketon, to the King for the fine of 400l was enrolled at Chester.^[1] On 6 June, the King also granted to Hugh a lease for his life at 100 s yearly, of the lands and tenements in Alpram, late of William de Bulkylegh of Alpram, in the King's hands by the outlawry for felong of Thomas de Bulkylegh brother and heir of the aforesaid William.^[1]

Hugh was dead before 14 May, 1383, when Margery who was the wife of Hugh de Venables, Ralph de Vernon, Kt, Nicholas de Vernon, Kt, Roger de Venables, Thomas de Davenport, John Donne, Arthur de Davenport, William de Bostok, Hugh de Coton and Richard de Vernon gave to the King recognizance for 200l.^[1] The King then granted to Margery, on the above recognizance, the custody of two parts of the lands, &c. of Hugh de Venables, with the wardship and marriage of Richard his son and heir.^[1]

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6} Peter Turner, comp, "Appendix II: No 1. Welsh Records: Calendar of Recognizance Rolls of the Palatinate of Chester, to the End of the Reign of Henry IV", The Thirty-Sixth Annual Report of the Deputy Keeper of the Public Records [13 February 1875], (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1875), 488. e-book Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/annualreportdep02offigoog/page/488/mode/1up : accessed 14 September, 2022).
2. ↑ Wallop Family, p. 792

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