General Notes

BARONY OF FITZHUGH (I, 2)

SIR HENRY FITZ HUGH, of Ravensworth, &c., son and heir. As an adherent of Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, he was pardoned for any part he had taken against Piers de Gavastone, 16 October 1313. On 20 May 1315 he was granted 400 marks, in recompense for the expenses he had incurred when on the King's service in Scotland. He was Constable of Barnard Castle from 15 December 1315 to 27 September 1319. On 20 August 1321, as a follower of John de Moubray, he was pardoned for all felonies committed in the pursuit of the Despensers. He was summoned for Military Service from January 1299/1300 to 27 March 1335, to Councils from May 1324 to 25 February 1341/2, and to Parliament from 15 May 1321 to 15 November 1351, by writs directed Henrico filio Hugonis or fiiz Hugh', whereby he is held to have become LORD FITZHUGH. In May 1322 the Earl of Richmond accused him of having, with many followers -- -when the Earl was absent at the Parliament held in July 1321 --- besleged and taken the Earl's castle of Bowes, and having held it for a long time, doing great damage, finally leaving it without guard against the Scots. On 1 February 1322/3 he was ordered to arrest Andrew de Harcla, Earl of Carlisle, who had lately joined the Scots, or was considered to have joined them. He was appointed a justice, in Northumberland, Cumberland, and Westmorland, to hear and determine the oppressions committed by the King's ministers and others, 10 December 1340.

He married, 1stly, Eve, daughter of Sir John DE BULMERE, of Wilton in Cleveland and Bulmer co. York by Tiphaine, 2nd daughter and coheir of Sir Hugh DE MOREWIKE, of Morwick, Northumberland. He married, 2ndly, before 25 November 1337, Emma, daughter and heir of Sir Robert DE Cleseby, of Cleasby, Clowbeck, and East Tanfield, in Richmondshire, by Amabel, his wife: she had married, 1stly, before 24 April 1300, Sir Robert DE HASTANG, of Bagnall, co. Stafford, and Cowton in Richmondshire, sometime Keeper of Kingston-upon-Hull [LORD HASTANG], who died before 15 April 1336. She died s.p. before 13 October 1348. He died at Ravensworth in 1356.  [Complete Peerage V:417-9, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

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Henry Fitz-Hugh, from whom his descendants ever afterwards adopted the surname of Fitz-Hugh. This Henry was engaged in the Scottish wars from the 3rd to the 8th of Edward II [1310-1315], the next six years he was constituted, owing to the minority of the Earl of Warwick (whose inheritance it was), governor of Barnard Castle in the bishopric of Durham; and being again employed in Scotland, he was summoned to parliament as a baron from 15 May, 1321, to 15 November, 1351. In 1327, his lordship acquitted Sir Henry Vavasour, Knt., of a debt of 500 marks, by special instrument under his seal, upon condition that Henry Vavasour, Sir Henry's son, should take to wife Annabil Fitz-Hugh, his dau. In the 7th, 8th, and 9th Edward III [1334, 1335, and 1336], Lord Fitz-Hugh was again in arms upon the Scottish soil. His lordship m. Eve, dau. of Sir John Bulmer, Knt., and had, besides the dau. already mentioned, a son, Henry, who d.v.p., leaving issue by his wife, Joane, dau. of Sir Richard Fourneys, and sister and heiress of William Fourneys, a son, Hugh, m. Isabel, dau. of Ralph, Lord Nevill, and d. s. p.; and Henry, who s. his grandfather. Lord Fitz-Hugh d. in 1356 and was s. by his grandson, Henry Fitz-Hugh. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 207, FitzHugh, Barons FitzHugh]