Sir Thomas of Hoo, Lord of Luton Hoo

• Sir Thomas de Hoo, Sheriff of Surrey & Sussex1,2
• M, #16124, d. 18 September 1380
• Father Sir Robert de Hoo3 d. 1 Nov 1311
• Mother Hawise FitzWarin3 b. c 1275, d. 2 Sep 1344
• Sir Thomas de Hoo, Sheriff of Surrey & Sussex was born at of Lutton Hoo and Stopsley, Bedfordshire, England. He married Isabel de St. Leger, daughter of Sir John de St. Leger, before 16 June 1335; They had 3 sons (Thomas; Sir William; & John).2 Sir Thomas de Hoo, Sheriff of Surrey & Sussex died on 18 September 1380; Buried in the church of St. Albans, Hertfordshire.2
• Family Isabel de St. Leger b. 16 Jun 1320, d. 22 Jul 1393
• Children
  • John Hoo
  • Sir William Hoo, Captain of Hammes in Pas-de-Calais and of Oye Castle in Picardy+2 b. c 1335, d. 22 Nov 1410
  • Joan de Hoo b. c 1340
• Citations
• [S4543] Unknown author, The Complete Peerage, by Cokayne, Vol. V, p. 352/3; Plantagenet Ancestry of 17th Century Colonists, by David Faris, p. 63.
• [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 303-304.
• [S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 303.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p537.htm#i... __________________
• Isabel De St. LEGER
• Born: 16 Jun 1321, Holcote, Northamptonshire, England
• Died: 12 Jul 1393
• Buried: St. Albans Cathedral, Hertfordshire, England
• Father: John De St. LEGER (Sir Knight)
• Mother: Jeanne ?
• Married: Thomas De HOO (Sir) (b. ABT 1318) BEF 16 Jun 1335
  • Children:
  • 1. William De HOO (Sir) (m. Alice De St. Omer)
  • 2. Joan De HOO (b. ABT 1358 - d. 30 May 1394) (m. Henry Ferrers, 4° B. Ferrers of Groby)
  • 3. Thomas De HOO (Sir)
  • 4. John De HOO
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/STLEGER.htm#Isabel De St. LEGER1 ____________________
• Sir Thomas Hoo
• Birth: unknown
• Death: Sep. 28, 1380
• Family links:
• Parents:
• Robert Hoo (____ - 1340)
• Hawise FitzWarine Hoo (____ - 1344)
• Spouse:
• Isabella Saint Leger Hoo (1320 - 1393)*
• Children:
  • William Hoo (1342 - 1410)*
• Burial: Saint Albans Cathedral, St Albans, St Albans District, Hertfordshire, England
• Plot: Nave
• Find A Grave Memorial# 139620008
• From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=139620008 ________________
• Sussex Archaeological Collections Relating to the History and ..., Volume 8
• https://books.google.com/books?id=5F5LAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA131&lpg=PA131&d...
• Pg.130
• .... etc.
• Sir Thomas Hoo, Knt.; ob. 18 Sept. 1380; bu. at St. Albans. = Isabel, da. and heiress of John St. Leger; bo. 25 May, 1319; m. 9 Ed. 3, 1335; ob. 22 July, 1393; bu. at St. Albans. ; ch: (Pg.131 Sir William (m. Alice St. Omer & Eleanor Wingfield), John Hoo)
• Pg.131
  • John Hoo, of Knebworth; ob. S.P. (Clutterbuck, Herts. Vol. iii, p. 71.)
  • Sir William Hoo, Knt.; ob. 22 Nov. 1410, aet. 75; bu. at Mulbarton, co. Norfolk. = Alice, da. and coheiress of Thomas de St. Omer, and on the side of her mother, Petronilla, d. & coheiress of Nicholas, Lord de Malmaynes; will dated 1375; bu. at Mulbarton; 1st wife. ; ch: Sir Thomas (m. Eleanor Felton & Elizabeth Echingham), John (living 1428; ob. S.P.), Margaret (m. Thomas St. Clere) Hoo ; = Eleanor, d. of Sir John Wingfield. 2d wife. ; ch: Thomas (m. Dorothy Norwood) Hoo
    • Margaret, ob. ante Oct. 1486 = Thomas St. Clere; ob. 6 May, 13 Hen. VI.
    • Sir Thomas Hoo, Knt.; ob. 23 Aug. 1420. = Eleanor, da. & heiress of Thomas Felton, of co. Huntingdon; ob. 8 Aug. 1400. 1st wife. ; ch: Thomas (m. Elizabeth Wychingham & Eleanor Welles) Hoo ; = Elizabeth, da. and coheiress of Wm. de Echingham. Re-mar. Sir Thos. Lewknor, of Bradhurst. 2d wife. ; ch: Thomas (m. Alicia Urrey) Hoo
      • Thomas Hoo, created Lord Hoo and Hastings, Kt. of Garter; he ob. 13 Feb. 1455; Inq. p.m., 33 Hen. VI. Sussex and Suffolk. = Elizabeth d. of Nicholas Wychingham; Inq. 33 H. VI. 1st wife. ; ch: Anne (m. Geoffry Bulleyne) Hoo ; = Eleanor, da. and heiress of Lionel, Lord Welles; Inq. 33 H. VI. She remar. Jas. Lawrence, and then, 3dly, Hugh Hastings. 2d wife. ; ch: Anna (m. Sir Roger Copley), Eleanor (m. Thos. Echingham & Sir James Carew), Elizabeth (m. Sir Thos. Massingberg & John Devenish) Hoo
      • Thomas Hoo; ob. 28 Oct. 1486. S.P. Inq. p.m. Herts & Beds. Nov., 2 Hen. VII, leaving the descendants of his aunt Margaret his heirs. = Alicia, da. of Walter Urrey. (Batt. Abb. Records.)
    • Thomas Hoo, of Herts; ob. 1480. (Clutterbuck makes him son of Alice, and give the descendants till the heiress mar. Sir Jon. Keate, vol. iii, p.73.) = Dorothy, da. and heiress of . . . . Norwood. ________________
• The visitations of Hertfordshire, made by Robert Cooke, esq.,Clarencieux, in 1572 .... etc.
• https://archive.org/details/visitationshert00britgoog
• http://archive.org/stream/visitationshert00britgoog#page/n22/mode/1up
• Pg.12
  • Hoo of Paul's Walden.
• Sir Thomas Hoo, Kt. = Isabel, da. and heir of Sir John St. Leger, Kt. ; ch: Sir William (m. Alison St. Omer) Hoo
  • Sir William Hoo, Kt. = Alison [? Ellenor], da. and heir to the Lord St. Omer, and by her mother, heir to Sir Nicholas Malmaynes. ; ch: A (Pg.13 Thomas (m. Dorothey Norwood) Hoo)
    • http://archive.org/stream/visitationshert00britgoog#page/n23/mode/1up
    • Pg.13
    • A : Thomas Hoo of Hoo, co. Hertf., 2 son. = Dorothey, da. and heir of . . . . Norwood. ; ch: Thomas (m. Maud Bardolfe) Hoo
      • Thomas Hoo of Paul's Walden. = Maud, da. of . . . . Bardolfe. ; ch: Thomas (m. . . . . Newman) Hoo
        • Thomas Hoo of Hoo. = da. and coheir of . . . . Newman. ; ch: Thomas (m. Lucy Brockett) Hoo
          • Thomas Hoo of Paul's Walden. = Lucy, da. of . . . . Brockett. ; ch: Thomas, 2. Nicholas, Grace (m. Francis Markham), Margaret (m. George Elsden), Thomasin, Jane.
            • Thomas Hoo of Hoo, son and heir.
            • Grace, ux. Francis Markham.
            • Margaret. = George Elsden of . . . . ; ch: 1. John, 2. Thomas, 3. George, 4. Richard, 5 Edward, Lucy, Elizabeth Elsden ______________________
• The Gentleman's magazine, Volume 198
• http://books.google.com/books?id=w9URAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA183&lpg=PA183&dq...
• Pg.182
• .... The family subsequently spread into other countries, and temp. Edw. II. were found in Sussex, where Sir Thomas Hoo was escheator and for six years sheriff temp. Edw. III. and had grant of a market in Wartling, and fair in other manors, and also free warren, which grants were confirmed to his widow, Isabel, in 1390.
• Sir William Hoo, son of Sir Thomas and Isabel, was a man of importance during the reigns of Edw. III Rich. II. and Hen. Iv. He was a legatee under the will of Sir
• Pg.183
• Thomas Wingfield, of the Suffolk family, from which he took his second wife, bearing date 17th July, 1378; he was Governor of the castle of Oye in Picardy, and by Henry IV. was engaged in matters of great trust, particularly in his transactions with Burgundy. He died 22nd Nov. 1410, and was succeeded by his son, Thomas Hoo, who married twice, and by each wife had a son, both named Thomas.
• Sir Thomas Hoo, whose monument is at Horsham, was the son by the first wife. Camden calls him the "noble Baron Hoo," and he rendered great and important services to his sovereign, alike as soldier and a lawyer. .... etc.
• On the 6th June 1448, he was created a baron by the title of Baron Hoo, of Hoo, co. Bedford, and of Hastings, in Sussex. .... Dugdale did not know the date of his death, but referred only to his will as dated 12th Feb. 1455. A copy, or rather perhaps full extracts from that will are among the MSS. at the College of Arms. By an inquisition taken at Battle, on 28th April, 33 Hen. VI. it was found that he died on 13th Feb. 1455, the day after the date of his will, leaving one daughter (by his first wife, Anne, the heiress of Sir Nicholas Wychingham), aged thirty years at her father's death, then married to Geoffrey Bulleyn, and who so became ancestor to Queen Elizabeth; and three daughters (by his second wife Eleanor, daughter and co-heiress of Lionel Lord Welles), viz. 1. Another Anna, aged seven years on her father's death, who married Sir Roger Copley, of Roughey, in which chantry the monument is: 2. Eleanor, five years old, who married Thomas Etchingham, and then Sir Richard Carew of Beddington: and 3, Elizabeth, four years old, who married Sir Thomas Massingberd, and then Sir John Devenish. .... etc.
• The half-brother, Thomas Hoo, represented Sussex county in parliament in 1446 and 1448, and Horsham in 1472. .... He married Alice, daughter of Walter Urrey, and died without issue 23 Nov. 1486. From the inquisition taken (after his death) at Lindfield, on 28th Oct. 3 Hen. VII. (1487), he seems to have been rather a turbulent friend of the Browns, .... On this inquistion his cousin of the half blood, Sir Wm. Bulleyn was found to be his heir; but by an inquisition taken at Dunstable in Nov. 1486, it appears that the true date of the death was 8th Oct. and not 23rd Nov. 1486, and that his cousin William Boleyn succeeded to the estates, not as heir general, but under a settlement dated 10 Dec. 13 Edw. IV. under which the heirs of Anne Boleyn, mother of William, took in default of heirs of the body of Thomas Hoo; and it was found that his heirs were the descendants of Margaret Hoo, (the sister of Sir Thomas Hoo, knt. father of both Lord Hoo and his half-brother,) who married a St. Clere. .... etc. _________________________
• The history and antiquities of Horsham By Dorothea E. Hurst
• http://books.google.com/books?id=pPQVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA63&lpg=PA63&dq=T...
• Pg.61
• .... We have nothing to relate of the next heir, Sir Thomas; but his son William, marrying Alice, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas de St. Omer, became Lord of Hoo, of Offley, of Monkbarton in Norfolk, and other manors, and was a man of considerable importance during the reigns of Edward III., Richard II., and Henry IV. .... etc.
• Pg.62
• .... He was, nevertheless, from time to time occupied by this new Sovereign in matters of great trust till the year 1410, when he received his last appointment, which he was unable to fulfill; his strength was failing him, and the knight, who for forty years had faithfully served three Sovereigns, died on the 22nd November, at the age of seventy-five years, and was buried in the chancel of the church at Mulbarton, which he had rebuilt, ornamenting the windows with portraits of his first wife, Alice, who had been buried there, and of himself kneeling in armour with his sword by his side. She was the mother of their son Thomas, who succeeded to the estates, and had been knighted in his father's lifetime; he was present and fought at the battle of Agincourt, 25th October, 1514, being the only knight in the retinue of Thomas, Lord Camoys, .... etc.
• Pg.63
• Sir Thomas Hoo died 23rd August, 1420, leaving two sons by different wives, both named Thomas, .... an indisputable fact, as appears by the testament of the elder brother, which commences thus; " I, Thomas Hoo, Knight, Lord of Hoo and Hastings, the xij. daye of February the yere of King Henry the sixt the xxxiij., .... , he proceeds to make bequests, to "my brother Thomas and his eyrys," and also leaves his daughters to be "rulyed, gouvernyd, and maryed, by the discecion of my wyffe, and Thomas Hoo my brother." .... etc.
• Pg.64
• He died February 3, 1455, the day after the date of his will. He was twice married; by his first wife he had one daughter named Anne, who married during her father's lifetime, Sir Geoffrey Bulleyne, Knight, ancestor of Queen Elizabeth. By his second wife he had three daughters, the eldest called Anna in some manuscripts—but by Dugdale, Jane—was aged seven at her father's death. She married Sir Roger Copley of Roughey. The names of the others were Eleanor and Elizabeth. Eleanor married first Thomas Etchingham, and then Sir James Carew of Beddington. Elizabeth married Sir Thomas Massingberg, citizen and mercer of London, and afterwards John Devenish of Hellingly.
• We must now turn to the immediate object of our present notice, Thomas, half-brother of the above, who succeeded to the greater part of the family estates. His mother was Elizabeth, daughter of William Etchingham; he married early, Alice, daughter of Walter Urrey of Rusper. The mother of this Alice was one of the daughters of Sir Thomas Burcester, .... etc.
• Pg.67
• He died, leaving no children, on the 8th October 1486. .... etc. _______________

Sir Thomas Hoo

Born: 1311, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England

Marriage: Isabel De St. Leger Bef 16 Jun 1335, England

Died: Sep 1380, at age 69

 General Notes: 

Burial: St. Albans Abbey, St. Albans, Hertfordshire, England

Sir Thomas de Hoo married before 16 June 1335 at which date she was aged 15, Isabel daughter and heir of Sir John de St. Ledger, who brought the Sussex and other estates to the family. In the Harleian Roll of Hoo deeds appears a charter to Geoffrey de St. Ledger dated 29 March 1265 granting to him free warren in his manor of Wartling (Sussex) and an undated charter is a grant to him of the manor of Bucksteep by Thomas de Warbleton in free marriage with his daughter Agnes, reversion to the grantor if Agnes d.s.p.

By a charter dated 20 December 1301, John son of Geoffrey de St. Ledger and Isabel his wife had a grant of free warren in Wartling, Bucksteep.

By a fine between Sir Thomas de Hoo and Isabel his wife and Dame Hawise the manor of Offley and Wartling were settled on Sir Thomas and to William his brother in tail successively rem. to right heirs of Isabel.

In 1345 there is record of a grant to Sir Thomas de Hoo and Isabel his wife and Thomas the son with rem. to William and Robert, brothers of said Thomas.

Sir Thomas Hoo who fought at Crecy and Calais is buried with his wife at St. Albans Abbey.

He was succeeded by his 2nd and eldest surviving son Sir William Hoo whose 1st wife Alice was daughter and heir of Nicholas Malmayns of Ockley, Surry.

Thomas married Isabel De St. Leger, daughter of John De St. Leger and Unknown, before 16 Jun 1335 in England.

Sources:

1. Clutterbuck's Herts III, page 72, page 94.

2. The Complete Peerage by G. E. Cokaynes,

Vol. VI, page 566 (Hoo, lines 1-20)

published 1982 by Sutton

Reprinted 2000 by Sutton

Pitman Periodicals Limited

ISBN: 0-904387-82-8

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• 'Hoo1'
• This top section comes from Visitation. We have doubts about its reliabilty and so show it in italics.
• Robert, lord of Hoo (d 26.10.1000)
• m. Anne (dau of John, Lord Griffth of Wales)
  • 1. Thomas, lord of Hoo (d 1042)
  • m. Agnes (d 19.10.1048, dau of Sir William Wawton)
    • A. Robert, lord of Hoo (d 23.02.1129)
    • m. Wilmott (d 24.11.1148,dau of John Malmaynes of Normandy)
      • i. Robert, lord of Hoo (d 01.08.1166)
      • m. Rosamond (d 1191, dau of Thomas, Lord Chelron)
        • a. Alexander, lord of Hoo
        • m. Darnell (dau of Alexander, King of Scots)
          • (1) Robert, lord of Hoo
            • (A) Robert, lord of Hoo (d 09.05.1310)
            • m. Beatrix (d 28.05.1314, dau of Alexander, lord of Andevill in Normandy)
            • BE1883 starts with the following Robert albeit without identifying the wives of the next 2 generations. TCP (Hoo) supports the following descent.
              • (i) Robert de Hoo of Hoo, Knebbeworth, etc. - continued below
              • m. Hawise FitzWarin (d 02.09.1344, dau of Sir Fulk FitzWarin)
• Robert de Hoo of Hoo, Knebbeworth, etc. (d by 1339 (1342?), possibly 01.11.1311) - continued above
• m. Hawise FitzWarin (d 02.09.1344, dau of Sir Fulk FitzWarin)
  • 1. Sir Thomas Hoo of Hoo (d 28.09.1380)
  • m. (before 16.06.1335) Isabel (or Elizabeth) St. Leger (b c1320, d 22.07.1393, dau of Sir John St.Leger)
    • A. Sir William Hoo of Hoo (d 22.11.1410, 2nd son)
    • m. Alice St. Maur (d 10.10.1456, dau of Sir Thomas St. Maur, or St. Omer, by Pernel (Jane), dau of Nicholas Malmayns of Ockley)
    • BE1883 shows that Thomas, son of Sir William and Alice, was the Thomas who became Lord of Hoo and Hastings and married Elizabeth Felton then Elizabeth Wichingham. TCP and Visitation show that that was his grandson Thomas, providing an intervening generation ...
      • i. Sir Thomas Hoo of Luton Hoo, etc. (d 23.08.1420)
      • m1. (by 02.1394/5) Eleanor Felton (dau of Sir Thomas de Felton)
      • Visitation appears to confuse the marriages over this and the next generation. Except as noted below, we follow TCP.
        • a. Sir Thomas Hoo of Luton Hoo, etc., Lord Hoo of Hoo and Hastings (d 13.02.1454/5)
        • m1. Elizabeth Wychingham (dau of Nicholas Wynchingham of Wynchingham)
          • (1) Anne Hoo (b by 1425)
          • m. Geoffrey Boleyn, Lord Mayor of London (d 1471)
        • m2. Eleanor Welles (dau of Lionel Welles, Lord Welles)
          • (2) Anne Hoo (b c1446)
          • m. Sir Roger Copley
          • (3) Eleanor Hoo (b c1448)
          • m1. Thomas Echingham (dsp)
          • m2. (by 1468) Sir James Carew of Beddington
          • (4) Elizabeth Hoo (b c1450)
          • m1. Thomas Massingberd
          • m2. Sir John Devenish of Hellingleigh
      • m2. Elizabeth Etchingham (dau of William de Etchingham)
        • b. Thomas Hoo (dsp or dspm 08.10.1486)
        • TCP reports that this Thomas either dsp or dspm. However, Visitation (which reports that he died in 1480) shows him with the following family. Some caution with this connection is recommended. It is possible that it is not exact but 'not far off': for example, it is possible that Thomas had a daughter whose husband or son took the name Hoo and was one of the undermentioned Thomases.
        • m. _ Norwood
          • (1) Thomas Hoo of Hoo (d 20.03.1516)
          • m. Maude Bardolph (dau of Edmond Bardolph)
            • (A) Thomas Hoo of Hoo (d 11.06.1551)
            • m. _ Newnham (dau of John Newman or Newnham of Hatfield)
              • (i) Thomas Hoo of Hoo
              • m. Lucy Brockett (sister of Sir John Brockett)
                • (a) Thomas (or Nicholas) Hoo (of Hoo)
                • Visitation ends with this generation. It is a presumption that Thomas (or his younger brother Nicholas) was father of the following William whose family details come from BEB1841 (Bickley of Attleborough).
                  • ((1)) William Hoo of the Hoo possibly of this generation
                  • m. Mary Bickley (dau of Sir Francis Bickley, 1st Bart of Attleburgh)
                    • ((A)) Thomas Hoo of the Hoo (dsp)
                    • ((B)) Susannah Hoo (bpt 26.12.1639, d 11.06.1673)
                    • m. (01.05.1655) Sir Jonathan Keate, 1st Bart of The Hoo (d 1700)
                    • BEB1841 reports that Susannah was "in a direct line from the Lord of Hastings and Hoo, of whose famiy she was the heir general, and the sole inheritrix of those ancient posessions that remained to the barony; the Lord, her ancestor ...". Note that we do not show Susannah as a direct descendant of Lord Hoo but of his half-brother.
                • (b) Margaret Hoo
                • m. George Asden
                • (c) Grace Hoo
                • m. Francis Markham
                • (d)+ other issue - Nicholas (or Thomas), Jane, Thomasin
              • (ii) Anne Hoo (bur 30.10.1575)
              • m. Thomas Reade of Abingdon (bur 27.04.1556)
              • (iii) Dorothy Hoo
              • m. William Cater of Uffington
              • (iii) Margaret Hoo
              • m. Nicholas Brockett
    • B. Joan Hoo (d 30.05.1394) possibly of this generation
    • m. (before 27.04.1371) Henry Ferrers, 4th Lord of Groby (b 16.02.1355/6, d 03.02.1387/8)
    • C.+ other issue - Thomas (dvp?), Robert
  • 2. Cecily Hoo probably of this generation
  • m. John Bacon of Hessett
• Main source(s): Visitation (Berkshire, 1532+1566+1623+1665-6, Reade of Barton), TCP (Hoo), BE1883 (Hoo of Hoo and Hastings)
• From: Stirnet.com
• http://www.stirnet.com/genie/data/british/hh4bz/hoo1.php www.findagrave.com

Sir Thomas Hoo
BIRTH 1312
Hertfordshire, England
DEATH 28 Sep 1380 (aged 67–68)
Offley, North Hertfordshire District, Hertfordshire, England
BURIAL
Saint Alban's Cathedral
St Albans, St Albans District, Hertfordshire, England
PLOT
Nave
MEMORIAL ID 139620008 ·

Family Members
Parents
Robert Hoo
unknown–1340
Hawise FitzWarine Hoo
1277–1344

Spouse
Isabella Saint Leger Hoo
1320–1393

Children
William Hoo
1342–1410