Hugh Waterton
| Sir Hugh Waterton | |
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| Spouse(s) | Ellen Mowbray Katherine (surname unknown) |
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| Father | William Waterton |
| Mother | Elizabeth Newmarch |
| Died | 2 July 1409 |
Sir Hugh Waterton, (born circa 1340 [before 1373] – died 2 July 1409) was a trusted servant of the House of Lancaster.
Waterton's date of birth is not known. He was the second son of William Waterton of Waterton, Lincolnshire, and Elizabeth Newmarch, the daughter of Sir Roger Newmarch of Womersley, Yorkshire, by his wife, Maud. He had an elder brother, John Waterton, and was uncle to Robert Waterton, another lifelong Lancastrian servant.
Waterton served in France in 1373 with John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster and became his attorney. By 1375 he had acquired the manor of Eaton Tregoz near Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire, which by an inquisition taken after his death was found to contain castle buildings and a deer park of 144 acres. By 1377 he was one of Gaunt's retainers, and in 1399 an executor of his will.
From the late 1370s he was also associated with Gaunt's son, Henry Bolingbroke, the future Henry IV, becoming a Privy Councillor and by 1386 was Bolingbroke's chamberlain. On 10 July 1386 he was among those who gave evidence in the celebrated case between Richard le Scrope, 1st Baron Scrope of Bolton, and Sir Robert Grosvernor as to their respective right to bear the arms Azure a bend or. In 1387 he was in charge, as Constable, of Bolingbroke's castles of Brecon and Hay. In 1391 he was chief steward of Brecon and of Bolingbroke's other Welsh estates. Both he and his nephew, Robert Waterton, were with Bolingbroke at the siege of Vilnius in 1391, and again in 1392. He also accompanied Bolingbroke on his journey to Jerusalem in the following year.
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