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Luttrell, Hugh (1364 - 1428)

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Born / Died

Birth Date: 1364
Death Date: 1428-03-24

Notes

Esquire to John of Gaunt ca. 1379; member of Queen Anne (of Bohemia)'s household and later of the Royal Household; Lieut to Sir Peter Courtenay, Capt. of Calais, by Nov. 1399; Lieut to John Beaufort, 2nd Earl of Somerset, by June 1402--ca. 1404

Parents

Marriages/Other Unions

  1. Beaumont, Katherine ( - 1435)
    Type: marriage
    Union began: 1384
    Union ended: n.d.
    Note: Union produced 2 sons and 4 daughters

Primary Title

  • Knight

Titles

  • Knight
    Assumed: 1390
    Vacated: 1432/3-02-20

General Lands Note

Came of age 1385; inherited from mother estates purchased in reversion from Joan (d. 8 Oct. 1404), wife of John, 2nd Baron Mohun; granted full seisin Feb. 1404/5; ownership dispute settled July 1408

Details of Offices

Began Ended Notes
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Sussex 1392/3
Constable & Keeper, near Maidstone 1392/3 -2 -23 1399 -07 Appointed by the Queen to this office; appointment later confirmed by the King
Surveyor, Surrey 1397 -10 -9
Keeper, Dorset 1398/9 -2 1414 -11 Office granted in reversion 5 July 1391
Mayor, France 1404 -5 -13 1404 -10
MP, Somerset 1404 -10
Commissioner of Array, Somerset 1405
MP, Devon 1406
MP, Devon 1407
Constable, Bristol 1409/10 -3 -7 1421 Appointed 'for life' 8 Nov. 1412
Keeper, Gloucestershire 1409/10 -3 -7 1421 Appointed 'for life' 8 Nov. 1412
Keeper, Somerset 1409/10 -3 -7 1421 Appointed 'for life' 8 Nov. 1412
Steward, Queen Joan's Household, England 1409/10 -3
Constable, Gloucestershire 1412 -11 -8 1432/3 -02 -20 For life
Keeper, Gloucestershire 1412 -11 -8 1432/3 -02 -20 For life
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Devon 1413
JP, Somerset 1413/14
MP, Somerset 1414 -4
MP, Somerset 1414 -11
MP, Somerset 1415
JP, Somerset 1416
Lieut, France 1417 -6 -20 1421
Seneschal, France 1419 -7 -14 1420/1 -01 -18
JP, Somerset 1421/2 1424
JP, Devon 1421/2
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Southampton 1422
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Wiltshire 1422
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Somerset 1422
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Dorset 1422
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Devon 1422 1423
Keeper & Surveyor of Warrens, Chases & Parks of the Earldom of Devon, England 1422 -7 -7 1428 -03 -24 Held jointly; during minority of Thomas de Courtenay, 13th Earl of Devon
JP, Devon 1424
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Devon 1426/7
JP, Devon 1427
JP, Somerset 1427

Details of Properties

Residence

  • Dunster Castle, Somerset
    (Performance Venue)
    Acquired: 1404/5-02
    Divested: 1428-03
    Part of the Mohun estates

Lands

  • Devon: Chilton Luttrell Manor in Thorverton
    Acquired: 1395
    Patrimony
  • Devon: Otterton & Woolston Manors
    Acquired: 1384
    Acquired via wife
  • Dorset
  • Norfolk: Feltwell Manor
    Acquired: 1395
    Patrimony (via mother)
  • Somerset: Alfoxton, East Quantoxhead & Watchet
    Acquired: 1403
    Inherited from cousin Sir John Luttrell of East Quantoxhead (d. 1403)
  • Somerset: Carhampton Hundred and Manor, Dunster, Kilton, Minehead Manors
    Acquired: 1408
    Mohun estates; patrimony (via mother)
  • Somerset: Sampford Arundel Manor
    Acquired: 1384
    Acquired via wife
  • Suffolk: Debenham, Moulton, Waldingfield Manors
    Acquired: 1395
    Patrimony (via mother)
  • Wiltshire

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Exeter (Unknown), Exeter, Exeter (city-county) in Devon Sir Hugh Luttrell's Minstrel/s

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Sir Hugh Luttrell's Minstrel/s Luttrell, Hugh (1364 - 1428) Entertainers/Minstrels 1

Owned Venues

Venue Name County Type
Dunster Castle Somerset Private Residence

Bibliographic Sources

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  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry IV [1399–1413]. 4 vols. London: HMSO, 1903--9
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry V [1413–22]. 2 vols. London: HMSO, 1910--11
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry VI [1422--61]. 6 vols. London: HMSO, 1901--11
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Richard II [1377–99]. 7 vols. London: HMSO, 1895--1905
  • The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. 1887–98 (8 vols); 1910–59 (13 vols). 6 vols. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1982
  • Lyte, H.C. Maxwell. A History of Dunster and of the Families of Mohun & Luttrell. 2 vols. London: St Catherine P, 1909
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
  • Roskell, J.S., Linda Clark and Carole Rawcliffe, eds. The History of Parliament: The House of Commons, 1386–1421. 4 vols. Stroud: Alan Sutton Publishing for The History of Parliament Trust, 1992