Richard de Hoghton

- Abt 1337

• Name	Richard de Hoghton  [1, 2, 3, 4]
  Birth	of Hoghton, Lancashire, England   [5, 6, 7]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Abt 1337  [8]
  Alternate death	1340  [1, 5, 9]
  Alternate death	Abt 1341  [7]
  Alternate death	1349  [6]
  Person ID	I8440	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	12 Sep 2021

  
  

  Father	Richard de Hoghton,   b. of Hoghton, Lancashire, England d. Aft 1312
  Mother	Christiana
  Family ID	F3726	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Sybil de Lea,   b. of Mollington Banastre, Cheshire, England d. Bef 1334
  Marriage	1309  [6]
  Children	+ 1. Katherine de Hoghton,   b. of Houghton, Lancashire, England d. Aft Nov 1367 + 2. Adam de Hoghton,   b. of Hoghton, Lancashire, England d. 1385
  Family ID	F911	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	12 Sep 2021

  
  

• Notes

  A knight be 1321. Commissioner of array for Lancashire to lead 3000 men to Carlisle against the Scots, 1322, and to lead 1000 footmen to Newcastle against the Scots, 1323. Knight of the shire for Lancaster, 1322, 1326 and 1327. ***** The following nonsense is from "The Pedigree of de Hoghton of Hoghton Tower", Visitors Information Brochure: General Statement of Hoghton family pedigree: The de Hoghtons are of ancient lineage, descended from Harvey de Walter, one of the companions of William the Conqueror, and through the female line from the Lady Godiva of Coventry, wife of Leofric III the Great, Earl of Mercia. After the third generation from the Norman Conquest, Richard and William de Hoghton first assumed the family name around 1150. The great-grandson, Sir Adam de Hoghton, was knighted and died in 1290. Sir Richard de Hoghton 1316-1345, Knight of the shire in the Parliaments of 1322-27-37. Married Sybilla de Lea, direct descendant of the Lady Godiva, whose lands in Lea still form part of the Hoghton Estates. Warden of the Ports, knighted by Edward III in 1336 and given permission to empark in 1327. It was from Lea Hall (his private residence), that Thomas Hoghton went into exile in 1569, having rebuilt Hoghton Tower 1560-1565. [Needless to say, "Harvey de Walter" is not one of the fifteen proven companions of William the Conqueror. And any connection to the mostly-mythical "Lady Godiva" is unknown to us. --PNH]

  
  

• Sources

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