Hugo Osbaldeston

A precise birth year for Hugo cannot be affirmed. Unless someone has a primary or two or more secondary sources to prove otherwise, I removed 1123 as the year of birth for lack of evidence.
A precise year of death for Hugo is insupportable. Thus far, the historical documents I've found only prove two things: 1. Hugo Osbaldeston existed, and 2. he was the father of Alisius. Therefore, 1205 showing as a fixed death year is now changed to "circa 1205". If a primary source or two–or more secondary sources—can confirm Alisius birth year, then a circa birth year entry would have some merit. — (Ken Shelley, 2 Sep 2022)

Sources, Quotes, and Observations

McNulty, Joseph ed. The Chartulary of the Cistercian Abbey of St Mary of Sallay in Craven, Vol. 1. New York: Cambridge University Press, 18 Apr 2013, pp. 137-8. ISBN: 9781108058797.
Note: The available Google Books preview shows an untranslated Latin text transcription without translation.
About this Source: "The abbey at Sallay (Sawley) was a Cistercian house founded in 1147/8 by the Percys, close to the Yorkshire-Lancashire border. The chartulary was compiled in the 1330s, comprising records from the foundation onwards, with a few later additions. The house remained a poor foundation, and it suffered when Whalley Abbey was founded only seven miles away in 1296. The 676 charters are arranged in twelve geographical groups, according to the proximity of the properties to Sallay. The documents are given in Latin, with English summaries of each by the editor, Joseph McNulty, who has also attempted to date the charters. Although the abbey is not as well known as other foundations, its charters provide a valuable source for the economic history of the north of England. Volume 1, published in 1933, contains the first 388 charters."
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British History Online mentions the earliest family members known of the family Osbaldeston.
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Stirnet, a fairly reliable subscription website, states the following:
“VCH [Victoria Council History] reports that "Osbaldeston and the adjoining vill of Balderston represent one of the twenty-eight Domesday manors held in 1066 by a freeman who was probably the ancestor of Ailsi son of Hugh". Hugh de Osbaldeston of Osbaldeston, Lancashire. Ainsi de Osbaldeston (d before 1217).”
Note: The unnamed relation in the above passage, of course, was not Hugo. In 1066, he was neither alive nor holding “28 Domesday manors”. The unnamed ancestor may’ve been Hugo’s grandfather.
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In what appears to be a revised and reformatted source, William A. Abram writes about the Osbaldeston family as starting in 1246/47. Neither the English narrative nor the Latin quote mentions Hugo. Only a pedigree chart shows Hugo as the father of Eilfi of Baldeston. “Eilfi” is either Alisius’ diminutive or secondary name.
Of Eilfi (Alisius), the book states:
“Osbaldeston was the property of Eilfi of Osbaldeston, a Saxon, whose son Hugh was living in 30 Henry III. [i.e., 1246/47] and from whom descended the family of Osbaldeston; while from his brother William, who assumed the surname of Balderston, descended a family, which terminated in two coheiresses, in the reign of Henry VI.” Source: Abram, William A. (1877). A History of Blackburn: Town and Parish. Heritage Publications, Blackburn, UK: J. G. & J. Toulman, 2014. pp. 342-3.
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In Abram's original publication, he stated following:
“The first member of this ancient proprietory family is Osbaldeston, of whom we have any account was Hugo de Osbaldeston, living about the beginning of the 13th century. He had a son Alisius or Eilfi de Osbaldeston. Alisius de Osbaldeston gave lands in Baldestone to Salley Monastery. By Wimara his wife, he and sons Hugh, the heir, William (de Balderstone), Barnard, John, Robert, Alexander, and Adam….”
Source: Abram, William Alexander. Parish of Blackburn, County of Lancaster A History of Blackburn, Town and Parish p. 600.
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Baines, Edward, William Robert Whatton, Brooke Herford & James Croston. (1891). The History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster, Vol. 4, p. 56.5 – Pedigree.