Hugh de Cressy
Hugh de Cressy | |
|---|---|
| Died | 1189 |
| Occupation | Royal justice |
| Spouse | Margaret de Chesney |
| Children | Roger de Cressy |
| Parent(s) | Roger Eustacia |
Hugh de Cressy[a] (died 1189) was an Anglo-Norman administrator and nobleman. Little is known of his ancestry and he first served two brothers of King Henry II of England before becoming a royal official. He was rewarded with a marriage to an heiress for his service to the king. In England he often served as a royal justice and witnessed documents, which showed his closeness to the king. On the continent, he recruited mercenaries for the royal army and was named constable of the castle of Rouen in the royal lands in France. He died in 1189 after giving lands to various monasteries before his death.
Background and early life
Hugh's family was from
After William's death in 1164, Hugh passed into royal service,
Royal service
Hugh was close to King Henry II, witnessing a large number of
Hugh married Margaret,[1] one of the daughters and heiresses of William de Chesney, the founder of Sibton Abbey.[12] Margaret was one of three daughters, but she inherited the bulk of her father's estates.[13] Although Margaret was the eldest daughter, the reason she received the bulk of the estates was King Henry's desire to reward Hugh, as the king arranged the marriage as well as ensuring that most of her father's lands went to her.[14] Through Margaret, Hugh gained the barony of Blythburgh in Suffolk, which he had control of by 1174.[15] He also acquired lands at Rottingdean in Sussex from Margaret.[2]
Death and legacy
Hugh died in 1189[1] around Easter[2] at Rouen.[4] His heir was his son Roger de Cressy, who died in 1246.[15] Towards the end of his life, sometime between 1186 and 1189, Hugh gave a church at Cressy to the priory at St Lo in Rouen.[2] On his deathbed he granted lands at Walberswick to Blythburgh Priory for the salvation of the souls of his parents and other ancestors as well as the souls of King Henry and Henry's brother William fitzEmpress.[4] Margaret survived Hugh and married Robert fitzRoger and lived until at least 1214, when she paid a fine to the king for the right to her inheritance after the death of her second husband.[16]
Notes
- ^ Sometimes Hugo de Creissi,[1] Hugh de Creissi,[2] or Hugh de Cressi[3]
- William fitzStephen 1176: William Basset and Roger fitzReinfrid 1179: Hugh de Gaerst, Ranulf de Glanvill, and Hugh Murdac 1182: William de Auberville and Osbert fitzHervey 1184: Ralph fitzStephen.[10]
- ^ Only three men witnessed more charters in this period – Ranulf de Glanville witnessed 33 and Walter de Coutances and William de Humez each witnessed 16.[11]
Citations
- ^ a b c d e Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants p. 416
- ^ a b c d Loyd Origins of Some Anglo-Norman Families p. 35
- ^ a b c Stenton English Justice pp. 74–75
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Keefe "Cressy, Hugh de" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ Warren Henry II p. 365
- ^ Warren Henry II pp. 110–111
- ^ Huscroft Ruling England p. 142
- ^ Bartlett England Under the Norman and Angevin Kings pp. 55–56
- ^ a b c Warren Henry II p. 309
- ^ a b Warren "Serjeants-at-Law" Virginia Law Review p. 919 and footnote 18
- ^ a b Turner "Richard Barre and Michael Belet" Judges, Administrators and the Common Law p. 181 footnote 4
- ^ Keats-Rohan Domesday Descendants p. 370
- ^ Green Aristocracy of Norman England p. 380
- ^ Waugh "Women's Inheritance" Nottingham Medieval Studies p. 82
- ^ a b Sanders English Baronies p. 16
- ^ Round "Early Sheriffs of Norfolk" English Historical Review p. 494
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- JSTOR 552094.
- Sanders, I. J. (1960). English Baronies: A Study of Their Origin and Descent 1086–1327. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press. OCLC 931660.
- Stenton, Doris Mary (1964). English Justice Between the Norman Conquest and the Great Charter 1066–1215. Philadelphia, PA: American Philosophical Society.
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