Henry FitzHugh, 3rd Baron FitzHugh

Henry FitzHugh
Chamberlain of the Household
Baron FitzHugh
In office 1413–1425
Monarch	Henry V Henry VI
Preceded by	The Lord Grey of Codnor
Succeeded by	The Lord Cromwell
Treasurer of England
In office 1416–1421
Monarch	Henry V
Preceded by	Sir Robert Leche
Succeeded by	William Kinwolmarsh
Personal details
Born	c. 1363
Died	14 January 1425
Resting place	Jervaulx Abbey, Yorkshire, England
Nationality	English
Occupation	Administrator and diplomat

Arms of Sir Henry FitzHugh, 3rd Baron FitzHugh, KG

Henry FitzHugh, 3rd Baron FitzHugh KG (c. 1363 – 11 January 1425) was an English administrator and diplomat who served under Henry IV and Henry V.

Royal service

Summoned to parliament in 1388, FitzHugh became active in public affairs following Henry IV's succession. He was engaged in Anglo-Scottish diplomacy, taking part in the Battle of Humbleton Hill in 1402 and negotiating the surrender of his uncle, Archbishop of York Richard le Scrope, in 1405. The next year he travelled to Denmark as part of the escort of Philippa, Henry's daughter, for her marriage to Eric of Pomerania, king of Denmark, Norway and Sweden.^[1]

At the coronation of Henry V in 1413, FitzHugh was Constable.^[2] During Henry's reign, he served as Chamberlain of the Household (1413–1425, into the reign of Henry VI), and Treasurer of England (1416–1421). He participated in the Battle of Agincourt in 1415 and subsequent diplomacy with the French, which led to the Treaty of Troyes in 1420. He travelled with the king to France, and he escorted the king's remains back to England following his death in 1422. He was an executor of Henry's will and was a feoffee of lands in the will.^[1]

He became a Knight of the Garter about 1409.^[3]

After his death on 11 January 1425, FitzHugh was buried at Jervaulx Abbey in Yorkshire at his request.^[1]

Religion

During his travels to the Scandinavian Peninsula in 1406, he visited the Bridgettine Vadstena Abbey in Sweden, where he volunteered to help establish a Bridgettine community in England, including the promise of a manor at Cherry Hinton in Cambridgeshire. An English order was established in 1415 at Twickenham with the assistance of Henry V.^[1][4] He also attended the Council of Constance in 1415.^[1]

Family

A descendant of Akarius Fitz Bardolph,^[2] FitzHugh was the first son of Hugh FitzHugh, 2nd Baron FitzHugh, and Joan, daughter of Henry Scrope, 1st Baron Scrope of Masham. He married Elizabeth Grey (born c. 1363), daughter of Sir Robert de Grey and his wife, Lora St Quentin. Robert was a son of John de Grey, 1st Baron Grey de Rotherfield and Avice Marmion (a descendant of John, King of England).^[5] They had eight sons and six daughters, including:^[5]

• William FitzHugh, 4th Baron FitzHugh, married to Margery Willoughby, daughter of William Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby de Eresby.^[5] They were parents to Henry FitzHugh, 5th Baron FitzHugh who became a brother-in-law to "Warwick, the Kingmaker" by his marriage to Lady Alice Neville; they were great-grandparents to queen consort Catherine Parr.^[5]
• Robert FitzHugh, Bishop of London^[5]
• Eleanor FitzHugh, who married firstly to Philip Darcy, 6th Lord Darcy of Knayth; they were parents to Elizabeth Darcy, wife of Sir James Strangeways. Eleanor married secondly to Thomas Tunstall and thirdly to Henry Bromflete, 1st Baron Vesci.^[5][6]
• Elizabeth FitzHugh, married firstly on 10 December 1427 to Sir Ralph Gray of Chillingham (d.17 March 1442/3) and secondly, in 1445, Sir Edmund Montfort.^[5] Her only issue was by her first husband.^[5] Elizabeth was a lady-in-waiting to queen consort Margaret of Anjou.^[5]
• Maud FitzHugh, wife of Sir William Eure of Witton.^[5]

References

1. Reeves, A. C. (January 2008). "Fitzhugh, Henry, third Baron Fitzhugh (1363?–1425)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/50151. Retrieved 5 June 2011. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
2. Burke, John (1831). A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland, extinct, dormant, and in abeyance. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. p. 202. Retrieved 30 May 2011.
3. "Knights of the Garter". leighrayment.com. 30 April 2011. Retrieved 5 June 2011.
4. "History of the Bridgettine Order in the UK". Bridgettine Order in the UK. Retrieved 5 June 2011.
5. editor, Douglas Richardson ; Kimball G. Everingham,. Plantagenet ancestry : a study in colonial and medieval families (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City, UT.: Douglas Richardson. p. 83. ISBN 9781449966348.
6. Richardson, Douglas (2011). Magna Carta ancestry : a study in colonial and medieval families, Vol II (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City, UT.: Douglas Richardson. p. 27. ISBN 9781449966386.