Hugh Wrottesley, Esq.

• 'Collections for a history of Staffordshire, Volume 1 By Staffordshire Record Society, William Salt Archaeological Society
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  • Sir John Gresley, Kt.
  • (occ. 1410: d.1449.)
• Sir John only survived his father for about five years, and so we naturally do not find much recorded of him. He probably married in 1409 or 1410, or in II Hen. 4 some trustees grant to him and 'Elizabeth Clarell' (see below) a rent at Colton. In 1415 he shared in the French wars with his father (see p. 52), and was a Knight as early as 1413, . . . .
• Pg. 55
• . . John died on Jan. 17, 1448/9, according to an Inquisition post mortem which states he held no lands of the King in Nottinghamshire or Derbyshire.
• Sir John's wife was Elizabeth (not Margaret) daughter of Sir Thomas Clarell of Aldwark, Yorkshire, by Matilda daughter of Sir Nicholas Montgomery. Her Christian name cannot be doubted in view of Gresely Charter 387, which appears to be a marriage settlement of the two, though Elizabeth is not expressly called the wife of John: the date is 1409-10. Elizabeth's name is also given in pedigrees in Brit. Mus. MSS. Harl. 4630 (p.94) and Add. 5530 (pp.xxvii, cii), and she had a sister Margaret.
• Of Sir John's children it may be assumed that all were by his first wife, from considerations of date. Their names were:--
  • ' 4. Thomasine ? This lady is very difficult to place with certainty. She was certainly married to Hugh Wrottesley, who was born on Sept. 14, 1400: and the marriage was before 1421, for in that year she occurs in Katherine Walsh's Will as 'Thomasine Wrottesley.' Hugh died in 1464 and Thomasine on Dec. 25, 1480. Thomasine is definitely affirmed to be the daughter of Sir John Gresley, but was she daughter of this Sir John or of his great-grandfather whose second wife died in 1393?
  • ' If she is daughter of the present Sir John, the difficutly is that we have seen above that he was probably married in 1409 (not before Sept. 30) or 1410, so that Thomasine could not have been born before 1410 and would have married before the age of twelve. Also it is odd that Katherine Walsh should have singled out this one great-grandchild and child-wife for remembrance in her will, the only other Gresley mentioned being her daughter.
  • ' If she is daughter of the elder Sir John, there are no less difficulties. He was married before 1347 and seems to be holding property in 1328 and so was probably born not later than the latter year: if so Thomasine who died in 1480 would be a child of his old age. But we know of no issue of Sir John's second wife Joan, and if there was we must suppose Joan to have had two daughters by different husbands each named Thomasine. And how can we account for Joan making to mention of this Thomasine in her will?
  • ' On the whole I believe that Thomasine was daughter of the second Sir John and married when very young, as is not unparalleled. If the authorities had shown any varition of her father's name, one might have inclined to believe her the daughter of Sir Nicholas or Sir Thomas.
  • ' For Thomasin's children see the Wrottesley Pedigree, which is given at greater length than usual on account of its long unbroken male line and also of its certitude, the latter quality being the result of the researches of Major-General the Hon. George Wrottesley.
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• 'Wrottesley 1: Wrottesley of Wrottesley
• http://www.multiwords.de/genealogy/wrottesley1.htm
• (i) Sir Hugh de Wrottesley of Wrottesley (d 1381)
• m1. Elizabeth Hampton (dau of Sir John de Hampton of Elderstoke)
• m2. Mabel (dau of Sir Philip ap Rees of Talgarth)
• m3. Isabella Arderne (dau of Sir John Arderne of Aldford)
  • (b) John de Wrottesley of Wrottesley (b 29.09.1379, d 07.09.1402)
  • m. Elizabeth Standish (dau of Sir Robert de Standish)
    • ' ((1)) Hugh Wrottesley of Wrottesley (b 14.09.1400, d 1464)
    • ' m. Thomasine Gresley (d 25.12.1480, dau of Sir John Gresley of Drakelowe)
      • ((A)) Sir Walter Wrottesley of Wrottesley (d 1473)
      • m. Jane Baron (dau of William Baron of Reading)
      • ((B)) Isabel Wrottesley or Wriothesley (a 1467)
      • m1. (before 1437-8) Sir William Armine of Osgodby (d 1447-8)
      • m2. Thomas Meeres the younger
      • ((C)) Elizabeth Wrottesley probably of this generation
      • m. William Stafford of Bishop's Frome (d before 1487)
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• 'Full text of "History of the family of Wrottesley of Wrottesley, co. Stafford"
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• 'History of the family of Wrottesley of Wrottesley, co. Stafford
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• http://www.archive.org/stream/historyoffamilyo00wrot#page/184/mode/1up
• John de Wrottesley, A.D. 1400 to A.D. 1402.
• According to the Inquisition on his mother's death, John de Wrottesley came of age on the 29th September 1400. He is shown to be son of Sir Hugh by this Inquisition, by another Inquisition on his own death, by two writs on the Chester Recognizance Roll1 of 3-4 Henry IV, and by a suit on the Chester Plea Roll of 10 Henry IV. He had been married to his wife, Elizabeth Standish, when six years of age, and his 'eldest son Hugh' was born just a fortnight before John attained his majority.
• http://www.archive.org/stream/historyoffamilyo00wrot#page/201/mode/1up
  • ' Hugh Wrottesley, A.D. 1421 — 1464.
  • ' With the advent of this Hugh to his estate, the French prefix "de" was omitted from the family name, and was never afterwards resumed. He is shewn to be son of John de Wrottesley by the Inquisition on his father's death, by the writ on the Chester Recognizance Roll of 4 Henry IV, by the Inquisition on the death of Sir John Arderne, in 9 Henry IV, and by the proceedings on the Chester Plea Roll of 10 Henry IV, which have been already recounted.
  • ' In the same year that he completed his majority we find him married to his wife, Thomasine, for an abstract of the will of Katherine, widow of Sir Thomas Walshe, Kt., of Wanlip, co. Leicester, dated 8 Henry V, contains a bequest to Thomasine
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  • 'Wrottesley. According to the Heralds' Visitations, Thomasine was daughter of Sir John Gresley, of Drakelowe.1 At this date she could not have been more than eleven years of age, for Sir John Gresley married his first wife, Elizabeth Clarell, in 1409.2
  • ' When Hugh married Thomasine, it was probably made a condition of the contract that on the consummation of the marriage he should be invested with the Wrottesley estates, but he appears to have held them in the first instance as tenant only under his mother, for he is not found dealing with the property as legal owner before 1441. By a deed dated from Wrottesley on the Tuesday before the Feast of SS. Simon and Jude, 20 Henry VI (24 Oct. 1441), Hugh Wrottesley conveyed Wrottesley and Butterton and the three water mills to trustees, who reconveyed them two days afterwards to Hugh and his wife, Thomasine, and to the heirs of their bodies, with remainder to the right heirs of Hugh for ever. The year 1441 may be therefore assumed as the date of his mother's death ; her husband, Lord Ferrers of Groby, died in 1445.
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  • ' In 3 Edward IV (1463) he made a new disposition of his estates, for having enfeoffed in the manor of Wrottesley, Thomas Asteley, Henry Wrottesley, and Thomas Everdon, the above trustees reconveyed it to Hugh and Thomasine, his wife, for their lives with remainder to Walter Wrottesley, Kt., and Jane, his wife, and the heirs of their bodies, and failing such to remain to the right heirs of Hugh. This is the latest appearance of Hugh Wrottesley. On the Court Roll of 5th October 1464, Walter Wrottesley, Kt., is described as "dominus de Wrottesley." Hugh, therefore, died in the interval between the 14th June 1463 and 5th October 1464. At this date he would be sixty-four years of age.
  • ' He left two sons, Walter, who has been already named, and who had been knighted in his father's lifetime, and Henry, who, though a younger son, is always styled armiger, and had been probably brought up to the profession of arms. In addition to these, a John Wrottesley, who is named in a Salop Fine of 36 Henry VI, and a Hugh Wrottesley, who occurs in 8 Edward IV, were probably sons of this Hugh. By the above Fine John Wrottesley and Joan, his wife, conveyed the manor of Stevynton, co. Salop, to certain trustees named in it, and on the De Banco Roll of Trinity 8 Edward IV, Hugh Wrottesley sued John Flemyng, late of Tettenhale, for breaking into his close at Tettenhale, depasturing cattle on his corn and grass, and so threatening his servants that for fear of their lives, they were afraid to leave the enclosure of his house.1
  • ' Besides these children, an old parchment pedigree, formerly at Wrottesley, in the handwriting of the Tudor period, named a daughter Elizabeth, married to Sir William Stafford, and some county histories and Herald's Visitations name another daughter Isabella, married to Sir William Airmyn, of Osgodby, co. Lincoln.
  • http://www.archive.org/stream/historyoffamilyo00wrot#page/216/mode/1up
    • Sir Walter Wrottesley, 1464 — 1473.
    • Although Sir Walter Wrottesley is named as lord of Wrottesley on the Manor Roll of 1464, it must have been done under some misapprehension by the Steward of the Manor, for his mother 'Thomasine had been jointly enfeoffed in the manor with her husband Hugh, and therefore would hold the manor for her life'. As a matter of fact, Walter never was lord of Wrottesley, for he died in the lifetime of his mother.
    • He is shewn to be 'son of Hugh, by the Inquisition on Thomasine Wrottesley, which was taken at her death in 1481', and by the suits respecting the Arderne inheritance on the Cheshire Plea Rolls of 22 Edward IV and 16 Henry VII.
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References

1. George Wrottesley. (1903) History of the family of Wrottesley of Wrottesley, co. Stafford. Page 207. < Archive.Org > Besides these children, an old paichment pedigree, formerly at Wrottesley, in the handwriting of the Tudor period, named a daughter Elizabeth, married to Sir William Stafford, and some county histories and Heralds Visitations name another daughter Isabella, married to Sir William Airmyn, of Osgodby, co. Lincoln.
2. https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p4878.htm... cites:
   1. [S40] RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project.
   2. [S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. IV, p. 275.
   3. [S6] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry: 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 272.
   4. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 370.
   5. [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. V, p. 265.