Robert Fitz Hugh

• Name	Robert Fitz Hugh  [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Person ID	I3750	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	6 Jan 2018

  
  

  Father	Hugh "Lupus" d'Avranches,   b. Abt 1047   d. 27 Jul 1101, Abbey of St. Werburg, Chester, Cheshire, England (Age ~ 54 years)
  Mother	(Unknown mistress of Hugh d'Avranches)
  Family ID	F3657	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Children	+ 1. Mabel Fitz Hugh
  Family ID	F5418	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	18 Jan 2025

  
  

• Notes

  "Within the limits of the parish of Malpas, and comprehended in the original barony, is the township of Egerton. When the Saxon counties had been formed, this part of Chesire, as we learned from the Domesday Book, belonged to Edwin, Earl of Mercia, a grandson of Earl Leofric and Lady Godiva. After the battle of Hastings, the Saxon rights were transferred by the victorious Norman to his sister's son, Hugh d'Avranches, surnamed Lupus, the pious profligate whom he had created Palatine Earl of Chester. Malpas was selected by him as the site of one of the numerous fortresses with which, at regular intervals, he strenghthened his Welsh border, and was given by him, with other estates from the forfeited lands of Earl Edwin, to his natural son Robert Fitz-Hugh, whom he created Baron of Malpas, and who was one of the eight barons of his Parliament." [County Families of Lancashire and Cheshire, citation details below.]

  
  

• Sources

  [S1117] County Families of Lancashire and Cheshire by James Croston. London: John Heywood, 1887. [S77] The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester by George Ormerod. Second edition, revised and enlarged by Thomas Helsby. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1882. [S1016] Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell by Carl Boyer III. Santa Clarita, California, 2001.