Sir Hugh de Plessis Knight
- Born: Abt 1237, Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, England 141
- Marriage: Isabel Bisett 141
- Died: 7 Aug 1292, Kidlington, Ploughley, Oxfordshire, England about age 55 141
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• Background Information. 141
Sir Hugh du Plessiss, son and heir by 1st wife, was aged 24-26 at his father's death (*1). He received gifts of timber from the King in 1265 and 1270; does were given to his (unnamed) wife (jacenti in puerperio) in Jan 1269/70 and in November following. In Jul 1273 he went to France to meet King Edward on his return from the Holy Land. He was summoned for service in Wales 1277 and 1282.
Hugh married, 1stly, as a child, before Oct 1249, Isabel, 3rd and youngest daughter and coheir of John Biset (died 1241), by Alice Basset (*2). The date of Isabel's death is uncertain. He married, 2ndly, in or before Jan 1278/9, Joan, widow of John de Soleham, of Hempton, Oxon, and daughter of Hugh de Hoyvill. Hugh died shortly before 7 Jul 1292.
(*1) His father's IPM. The King had remitted rights in wardship of Hugh to his father, Feb 1252/3. In 1255 John was trying to obtain an aid from his tenants for the knighting of this son (who would not be Earl of Warick). On his father's death the Earldom passed to William Mauduit of Hanslope--See Warwick. Hugh's inheritance as son of John du Plessis by Christian de Sanford consisted chiefly of his mother's 1/2 fee in Great Missenden, Bucks, and land in North Moreton, Berks, with the manor of Stottesdon, Salop. The steps by which Hook Norton and Kidlington were deflected from the rightful heirs may be seen from grants to John. Bradenham, part of the same (D'Oilly) inheritance, was quitclaimed by Hugh, on his father's death, to its then rightful heir, though he took the opportunity of the later disturbances to seize it back again.
(*2) Alice Basset was 3rd dau. and coheir of Thomas Basset, of Hedington, Oxon (d. 1220), by Philippe, eldest dau. and coheir of William Malbank, lord of Wich Malbank, Cheshire. His 1st marriage brought him the manor of Headingto and property in Wich Malbank.
(*3) His dau. Christian, to whom he gave Stottesdon, m. John de Segrave, afterwards Lord Segrave.
~Cokayne's The Complet Peerage, Vol. X, pp. 548-549
Hugh married Isabel Bisett, daughter of John Bisett and Alice Basset.141 (Isabel Bisett was born about 1237 in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England and died before 1277 in Hook Norton, Oxfordshire, England.)
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