Hugh de Plessis

Hugh de Plessis (* between 1234 and 1242; † 1292 ) was an English nobleman.

Hugh de Plessis was the eldest son of John de Plessis and his first wife Christina, the daughter and heiress of Hugh of Sandford , a Berkshire landowner . His father was a knight of the royal household, presumably from France, who was led by King Henry III. was appointed guardian of his mother and she married in 1234. After his mother's death before 1242, his father had married Margaret de Beaumont, Countess of Warwick , with which he could claim the title of Earl of Warwick . Contrary to the valid inheritance law, his father had agreed with Margaret de Beaumont's relatives that if his wife died prematurely , he could keep the barony of Hook Norton in Oxfordshire , which Margaret de Beaumont had inherited from her mother, for life. When Margaret de Beaumont died in 1253, John de Plessis, with the support of the king, managed to get Hook Norton as a hereditary fiefdom.

After the death of his father in 1263, Hugh de Plessis therefore inherited Hook Norton. For the salvation of his late father, he donated land to Osney Abbey . During the Second War of the Barons , like his father, he sided with King Henry III. During the war he attempted to occupy Bradenham Manor in Buckinghamshire that his father had already claimed from Thomas de Ferrers as part of his wife's estate .

Plessis married Isabel Biset († 1280), the youngest daughter of John Biset and Alice Basset, a daughter of Thomas Basset . His wife was co-heir to Headington in Oxfordshire. Plessis acquired the inheritance shares from the other co-heirs and thus became sole master of the Headington estate. After the death of his wife, he sold Headington to King Edward I and in return acquired the estate of Compton .

His heir became his son of the same name Hugh († 1301), after whose death another Hugh de Plessis followed, who died childless in 1337.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nicholas Vincent: Plessis, John de, seventh earl of Warwick (d. 1263). 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
2. ^ David A. Carpenter: The reign of Henry III . Hambledon, London 1996. ISBN 1-85285-137-6 , p. 34
3. ^ Headington History: Lords of the Manor 1 (1086-1613). Retrieved April 3, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Helen M. Cam: Liberties and Communities in Medieval England . Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2014. ISBN 978-1-107-45277-0 , p. 113