General Notes

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]