Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
Powys-Lybbe Forbears - Person Sheet
NameHugh de Essex 
[100, Rosie Bevan, "Essex/Valognes/Fitz John", 18 Apr 2003]
[100, Rosie Bevan, "Essex/Valognes/Fitz John", 18 Apr 2003]Birthca 1245
General1st s. Heir of his uncle Henry. Gave North Weald for life to the Bassets.
FatherHugh de Essex (-1250)
Notes for Hugh de Essex
Michael Andres-Reading established that this Hugh de Essex is the grandfather of Margaret Prayers who m. Robert Bourchier:
“For some time, I have been essaying to link Margaret Prayers, wife of
Robert, 1st Lord Bourchier (d 1349) with the main line of the de Essex
family, given that her maternal grandfather was stated to be Hugh de
Essex.
A Special Collection document in the Public Record Office (SC
8/169/8440) provides this links, as well as apparently confirming that
the male line of Baldwin de Essex was dead by the end of Edward II's
reign:
In this document, dated "circa 1327" on PROCAT, Robert Bourchier ("de
Bousser") and Margaret his wife petitioned the King for the return of
the manor of North Weald Basset, which had passed into his hands as a
result of the forfeiture of Hugh le Despencer the younger. According
to the pleading, the manor had been granted for life to Philip and
Ellen (sic) Basset by Hugh FitzHugh de Essex, who was father of
Margaret Bourchier's mother Anne. After the Bassets died, Hugh le
Despencer the younger allegedly took the manor and gave it to his son.
Margaret claimed the manor as "the next heir of Hugh de Essex in tail".
Accordingly we can place Margaret Bourchier's grandfather as Hugh de
Essex born circa 1245, whom we know from the other PRO documents cited
by Rosie granted North Weald to Philip Basset.”
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“For some time, I have been essaying to link Margaret Prayers, wife of
Robert, 1st Lord Bourchier (d 1349) with the main line of the de Essex
family, given that her maternal grandfather was stated to be Hugh de
Essex.
A Special Collection document in the Public Record Office (SC
8/169/8440) provides this links, as well as apparently confirming that
the male line of Baldwin de Essex was dead by the end of Edward II's
reign:
In this document, dated "circa 1327" on PROCAT, Robert Bourchier ("de
Bousser") and Margaret his wife petitioned the King for the return of
the manor of North Weald Basset, which had passed into his hands as a
result of the forfeiture of Hugh le Despencer the younger. According
to the pleading, the manor had been granted for life to Philip and
Ellen (sic) Basset by Hugh FitzHugh de Essex, who was father of
Margaret Bourchier's mother Anne. After the Bassets died, Hugh le
Despencer the younger allegedly took the manor and gave it to his son.
Margaret claimed the manor as "the next heir of Hugh de Essex in tail".
Accordingly we can place Margaret Bourchier's grandfather as Hugh de
Essex born circa 1245, whom we know from the other PRO documents cited
by Rosie granted North Weald to Philip Basset.”
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