Hamo Pincerna

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁶⁸⁸
Hamo Pincerna, married Maud, daughter of Richard Bussel. Second Baron of Penwortham, in Lancashire. At this marriage her father gave Hamo the Manor of Hocton. It was this township of Hocton that came into the possession of the Hocton or Houghton family, as it was afterward spelled. Some genealogists trace the descent back through Maud, wife of Hamo Pincerna, to her father, Richard Bussell. Others give it as Warren Bussell, and her grandfather Roger de Busti (Bussell), joint Lord of Blackburn in the time of William the Conquerquer, 1066. The manor of Hocton, from which the family took its name, came into possession in the third generation from the coming of the original progenitor into England.

children of Hamon and Maud were:

William de Hocton, who married in 1140, the widow of Geoffry de Favarre, and gave ten marks of gold that he might have the use of her lands, and the custody of her son until he might be knighted and afterward he might hold the land of said son, William.
Richard, No further records.
Roger, married a daughter of Hugh Bussell.


~The Houghton Genealogy, pp. 20-21

• Background Information. ¹⁸⁵
"In the reign of William Rufus, the manor of Houghton was given by Warin Bussel with a daughter in marriage to Hamo Pincerna; after whose death his wife gave it to their second son, Richard. The son of Richard Fitz Hamo was Adam, who in the reign of Henry II. styled himself Adam de Horton, or Adam Dominus de Horton."-Bailie's Lancashire.

Hoghton Tower, "rising in isolated pre-eminence from the rocky banks of Darwen," crowns the summit of a lofty hill, and was ruined in the Civil War, "when the gate-house was accidentally blown up with gun-powder, and one Captain Starkey, with two hundred soldiers, were killed in that blast most woefully. This stately fabric is invironed with a most spacious park" (Richard de Hoghton, 9 Richard II., obtained from his Earl, John of Gaunt, license to add sevenscore acres to his park): "which in former times was so full of tymber that a man passing through it could scarce have seen the sun shine at middle of day; but of late dayes most of it has been destroyed. It was much replenished with wild beasts, as with boars and bulls of a white and spangled colour, and red deer in great plentie."-Dr. Kuerden.

James I. spent three days at Hoghton Tower, "in the midst of the most splendid festivities," on his progress from Edinburgh to London in 1617. "There is a laughable tradition still generally current in Lancashire that our knight-making monarch, finding, it is presumed, no undubbed man worthy of the honour, knighted at the banquet in Hoghton Tower, in the warmth of his liberality, a loin of beef, the part ever since called sir-loin. Those who would credit this story have the authority of Dr. Johnson to support them; among whose explanations of the word sir in his Dictionary is:-"a title given to a loin of beef, which one of our kings knighted in a fit of good humour."-Baines.

~The Battle Abbey Roll, Vol. I, pp. 92-93

• Background Information. ¹³⁸⁶
"Hoghton, is a place is of considerable antiquity. In the reign of William Rufus, the manor was given by Warin Bussel with a daughter in marriage to Hamo Pincerna, after whose death his wife gave it to their second son, "Ricardus, filius Hamonis Pincernæ." The son of Richard Fitz-Hamo was Adam, who, in the reign of Henry II., styled himself Adam de "Hocton," or Adam dominus de "Hocton." From him descended Richard de "Hocton," to whom was granted free warren in Hoghton and Whitenhull, with liberty to inclose a park.

~Topical Dictionary of England, pp. 524-527

• Background Information. ⁸²⁷
The early connexion of this family with Hoghton is obscure. The earliest ancestor known is one Hamon or Hamlet le Boteler, to whom Warine Bussel gave two plough-lands in Heaton in Lonsdale and Elston, in free marriage with his daughter. [Lancs. Inq. and Extents, i, 30; Adam de Hoghton held the plough-land in Heaton in 1212] Hamlet had two sons, Richard and William, [Ibid. William son of Hamon in 1212 held three plough-lands in Golborne in Winwick; ibid. i, 74. This estate seems also to have come to Hoghton of Hoghton] and Richard's son Adam had some land or lordship in Hoghton, for in 1203 he was known as Adam de Hoghton. [Farrer, op. cit. 179] He did not hold directly of the Fittons, for it is clear from what follows that Hoghton was parted between two mesne lords, one surnamed Hoghton and the other Ollerton. Adam had successors of the same name, and in the latter part of the century a Sir Adam de Hoghton becomes prominent. [De Banco R. 89, m. 13 d.]

~A History of the County of Lancaster Volume VI, pp. 36-47

Hamo married Maud Brussel, daughter of Richard Brussel Baron of Penwortham and Unknown ^185,688.^,827