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 Abt 1460 - 01.02.1520/21
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| Name |
Luttrell, Hugh |
| Born |
Abt 1460 |
Of Dunster, Somersetshire, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Buried |
01.02.1520/21 |
East Quanstockshead, Somerset, England |
| Person ID |
I04903 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
20 Oct 2017 |
| Family 1 |
Hill, Margaret, b. Abt 1468, England , d. Bef 1508, Of East Quanstockhead, Somerset, England (Age ~ 40 years) |
| Married |
Abt 1490 |
England |
| Children |
| | 1. Luttrell, John [Natural] |
| | 2. Luttrell, Elizabeth [Natural] |
| + | 3. Luttrell, Andrew, b. Abt 1495, Of East Quanstockhead, Somerset, England , bur. 5 May 1538, East Quanstockhead, Somerset, England (Age ~ 43 years) |
| + | 4. Luttrell, Eleanor, b. Abt 1495, Of Dunster, Somerset, England , d. Bef 1531, England (Age ~ 36 years) |
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| Family ID |
F01534 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- A History of Dunster and of the Families of Mohun & Luttrell by Sir H.C. Maxwell, KCB
Deputy Keeper of the Records.
PART I
Illustrated London. The St. Catherine Press Ltd.
8 York Buildings, Adelphi. 1908.
....Hugh Luttrell of Dunster was created a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Elizabeth of York, wife of Henry the Seventh, in November 1487. A few days later, he received from his uncle Peter Courtenay, Bishop of Winchester, a grant of the office of Master of Poundsford Park, near Taunton, with an annuity of 10/. for life. He was Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset for a year beginning in November 1488. Nine years later, he took the field against Perkin Warbeck under the Duke of Buckingham. When the Princess Catherine of Arragon came to England in 1501, in order to marry the Prince of Wales, Sir Hugh Luttrell was one of the seven knights and gentlemen of Somerset who were selected to escort her from Crewkerne to Sherborne. In 1513, we find him serving in the royal navy in the ship of Leonard Fiscaballi...
CH. IV. A History of Dunster. 133
.....Church, but his arms are no longer to be seen there. Sir Hugh Luttrell's second wife was Walthean daughter of .. Yard of Devonshire, and relict of Walter Yorke of Exeter and John Drewe. Her third marriage must have taken place in or before January 1508, when Sir Hugh Luttrell settled the manor of East Quantockshead on her in jointure. By subsequent arrangements, she also obtained from him the manors of Kilton, Iveton and Vexford for her life. In consideration of some services or payments unspecified, the abbot and convent of Athelney, in 1510, admitted Sir Hugh Luttrell and his wife to their fraternity and sisterhood, promising to them all the benefits of their common prayers, and undertaking to celebrate mass for their souls after death...
Sir Hugh Luttrell had issue by his first wife four children :
Andrew, his heir.
John, sometimes called John Luttrell 'the elder' in contradistinction to his nephew of the same name. He was the ancestor of the Luttrells of Kentsbury and Spaxton.
Elizabeth, She married Sir William Carent of Toomer, in Somerset, who died in 1564.
Eleanor, She married Roger Yorke, Serjeant at Law, son of her step-mother Dame Walthean Luttrell.
It is uncertain whether Sir Hugh left any issue by his second wife. Nothing is known as to the parentage of a certain George Luttrell who is mentioned in 1580 as a 'servant' of Dame Margaret Luttrell.
Inq. post mortem, E. H. 909 ; MS. C. 22. f. 393.
D CM. II. 5.
134 A History of Dunster. Ch.iv
....He had a son John, baptized at East Quantockshead in 1571. Ten years later, he was married there to Cecily Smyth. He died in 1593, and she survived until 1613.
Sir Hugh Luttrell died on the 1 st of February 1521, and was buried at East Quantockshead.
Andrew Luttrell succeeded. He had been married some years. On the 31st of March 1514, Sir Hugh Luttrell of Dunster entered into an agreement with Sir Thomas Wyndham of Felbrigg in Norfolk, the first provision of which runs as follows :
" Andrew Luttrell, sonn and heire apparant of the saied Sir Hugh, by the grace of God, shall mary and take to his wiefe Margaret one of the doughters of the saied Sir Thomas, or any other of the doughters of the said Sir Thomas suche as the saied Androwe shall best lieke byfore the Wonysdaie next after Lowe Soundaie next commynge after the date of this presentes, after the cosdom and lawe of holye churche, if the said Margaret or such of her sisters as the said Androwe shall best lieke therunto will agree and the lawe of holye churche it wyll permytt and suifer."
The time specified was certainly not over-long, as there were only four weeks between the date of the agreement and the last day allowed for the solemnization of the marriage. It was nevertheless stipulated that if Andrew Luttrell should die during that brief interval, his next brother, John, should, in his stead, marry one of the daughters of Sir Thomas Wyndham before Whitsuntide. Another clause runs :
" The said Sir Hugh, at his proper costes and charges, shall apparell the said Androwe or John that shall happen to mary with one of the doughters of the said Sir Thomas at the saied daie of maryage as shalbe convenyent for his degree.
Sir Thomas Wyndham on his side undertook to "apparell" his daughter for the wedding, and to pay one half of the charges of the dinner and other expenses connected therewith. The bride's portion, seven hundred marks (466/. 13^. 4^/.), was to be paid to Sir Hugh Luttrell in instalments, he settling 40/. a year on the young couple and giving a guarantee that his son should eventually inherit the bulk of his landed property. As both the parties to the intended marriage were minors, the bride's father was to have "the rule and governance" of them and their property until the husband should come of age.
A legal settlement in pursuance of this agreement was made in May, shortly after the marriage of Andrew and Margaret on the 22nd of April. The bride belonged to a family which afterwards acquired considerable property near Dunster. In 1537, she received from her mother's sister, Elizabeth, Countess of Oxford, a legacy of a tablet of gold.
It was perhaps natural that Andrew Luttrell should quarrel with his step-mother Dame Walthean, who kept him out of part of his inheritance. In reply to a bill filed against her in the Star Chamber, she stated that after the death of her husband, Andrew Luttrell "in Lent last past, of his wilfull and cruell mynde, without any cause resonable, took her goodes and catalles, not levyng her dische, pott, nother panne," and that she and her children and servants had "stood in daily perell of their lyves," until she went up to London, leaving only a certain Lewis Griffyth and an "impotent, power" almsman, eighty years of age, to look after her interests at East Quantockshead. She professed, moreover, to have instructed her agent to offer no resistance if Andrew Luttrell or any one on his behalf should attempt to eject him from the manor house. In such an event, she intended to have her remedy at law. A serious affray, however, occurred in her absence. Two versions of it have been preserved.
One of Andrew Luttrell's servants, John Gay by name, complained to the King's Council that, on the 7th of June, 1521, Lewis Griffyth and several other evil-disposed persons assaulted him at East Quantockshead, shot eleven arrows at him, one of which pierced him through the left arm, while others "grevosly strake hym in dyvers places of hys body, so that and yff socoure of trees hadde nott byn, they hadde kylled and murdered hym oute of hand." He also said that he had received "a grette wonde in the shilder" with a forest bill.
Griffyth's account of the matter is much more detailed. He being in Quantock Park, "with his bowe and his shaffes under his gyrdell, going abought to recover a dere, being hurte, in a place called Blakwell," met Gay and two other men. Gay was armed with "a longe peked staff" seven feet long, and his companions carried great axes. They said that they had come, by command of their master, to take sixty trees for posts, but he told them that this could not be done without warrant from Dame Walthean, who held the manor for her life. Furthermore, he, "to fere the said John Gay and his felowes, shot an arrowe wyde of them." When Gay asked him "to holde his hand," he "took his cap in his hand and desyered and tenderly prayed them to departe. This they did, but they "wente into a place withyn the said towne and there harnyssed them, and called to them two idell persons," and so returned, "two of them havyng forest billes, the said Gay havyng the said longe pyked staff, a hanger and a shorte dager, and the residewe of them havyng grete axes in their hands. "By hewing" an olde lying tree "within sound of the manor-house, they made Griffyth believe that they were felling trees, and when he came out, they attacked him and "a chylde" of sixteen who was with him. Gay may have been hurt in the fight, but Griffyth was knocked down and injured with a forest bill on the head and hand. Finally he and the boy were taken three miles to the house of Lord Fitzwarren, who caused them to be "fetered" and put for two hours or more in his porter's lodge, whence they were released only on payment of a fee to the porter.
It is impossible to say whether Gay's version or Griffyth's was the more truthful.
Andrew Luttrell was knighted in or before 1527. He was appointed Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset in November 1528. Some five years later, he was a servitor at the coronation of Anne Boleyn.
Inq. post mortem, E. II. 943, no. 5.
...This Sir Hugh Luttrell was one of the knights of the hath at the coronation of Henry Vllth's queen. He married two wives, first, Margaret, daughter of Robert Hill, sister by the mother to Lord Daubeny, chamberlain to King Henry VII. and secondly, Walthera, widow of Thomas Drelne, and afterward of Walter Yorke, merchant of the Stannaries. By his first wife he had Andrew his son, and several other children. In the thirteenth of Henry VII. this Sir Hugh attended the king into the west in the expedition against Perkin Warbeck. He seems to have been a very devout person; for in the second of King Henry VIII. he was, together with his wife Walthera, admitted into the fraternity of the abbey of Athelney, and the same year into that of the abbey of Walsingham, in Norfolk, becoming thereby entitled to the benefit of all the masses, prayers, alms, &c. belonging to the said monasteries.
By an inquisition taken on the death of this Sir Hugh Luttrell, he was found to hold the castle and borough of Dunster, the manor and Hundred of Carhampton, the manors of Minebead and Kilveton, ninety-five acres of land in Heathfield-Durborough, the mauor and advowsonof the church of East-Quantockshead, the manor of Sampford-Arundel, with various manors and rents in the counties of Dorset, Devon, Norfolk, and Suffolk.
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