Hugh de Freyne

Sir Hugh de Freyne (also Hugh de Frene ) († December 1336 or January 1337 in Perth ) was an English knight.

Hugh de Freyne was a knight and came from Herefordshire . After the overthrow of Queen Isabella and her favorite Roger Mortimer in 1330, he was appointed royal knight administrator of Cardiganshire in West Wales, including the town of Cardigan and Cardigan Castle . In May 1334 he received Orleton in Herefordshire, a former estate of Mortimer, as a fief. In late 1335 or early 1336, presumably with her consent, he kidnapped the twice widowed Alice, Countess of Lincoln of Bolingbroke Castle , one of her castles in Lincolnshire . Although she was already an elderly woman, by marrying her Freyne was able to maintain the administration of her great Wittum . King Edward III was initially upset about the kidnapping and gave orders that he and Alice be arrested. Eventually he pardoned her and Freyne was able to marry Alice before March 23, 1336. He was appointed to parliament in November 1336 by the title of his wife . He then took part in a campaign to Scotland , during which he died a little later. After the death of her third husband, Alice did not remarry.

Web links

Hugh de Freyne, Baron Freyne, on thepeerage.com , accessed December 26, 2017.

Individual evidence

↑ James Bothwell: Edward III and the English Peerage. Royal patronage, social mobility and political control in fourteenth-century England . Boydell Press, Woodbridge 2004. ISBN 1-84383-047-7 , p. 70
^ Roy Martin Haines: King Edward II. His life, his reign, and its aftermath, 1284-1330 . McGill-Queen's University Press, Montréal 2003, ISBN 0-7735-3157-2 , p. 406
↑ JR Maddicott: Thomas of Lancaster, second earl of Lancaster, second earl of Leicester, and earl of Lincoln (c.1278-1322). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
↑ Linda Elizabeth Mitchell: Family life in the Middle Ages . Greenwood, Westport 2007, ISBN 978-0-313-33630-0 , p. 144

personal data
SURNAME	Hugh de Freyne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Hugh de Frene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	English knight
DATE OF BIRTH	13th century or 14th century
DATE OF DEATH	December 1336 or January 1337
Place of death	Perth , Kingdom of Scotland

[1] James Bothwell: Edward III and the English Peerage. Royal patronage, social mobility and political control in fourteenth-century England . Boydell Press, Woodbridge 2004. ISBN 1-84383-047-7 , p. 70

[2] Roy Martin Haines: King Edward II. His life, his reign, and its aftermath, 1284-1330 . McGill-Queen's University Press, Montréal 2003, ISBN 0-7735-3157-2 , p. 406

[3] JR Maddicott: Thomas of Lancaster, second earl of Lancaster, second earl of Leicester, and earl of Lincoln (c.1278-1322). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004

[4] Linda Elizabeth Mitchell: Family life in the Middle Ages . Greenwood, Westport 2007, ISBN 978-0-313-33630-0 , p. 144