Hugh de Kilpeck

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Philip Marmion married, 1stly, Joan, younger daughter of Hugh de Kilpeck.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. VIII, p. 512

• Web Reference: Kilpeck Castle and Church.

• Background Information. ¹²⁴⁸
By Julian, John left Hugh de Kilpeck, who was a ward to William de Cantelupe, a great border baron. At this time the king visited Kilpeck occasionally, being there 1211, 11th March, in his way from Hereford to Abergavenny, no doubt at both places as Cantelupe's guest. Also in 1213, 27th and 28th November, he was here between Hereford and St. Briavels, and finally 18th and 19th December, 1214, while going from Monmouth to Hereford.

Hugh de Kilpeck, when of age, inherited the keepership of the royal forests in Herefordshire, and in 1248 he held Little Taynton, in Gloucestershire, by the serjeantry of keeping Haywood forest, also an hereditary charge. The forests of Hay, Kilpeck, and Acornbury seem, from the patent rolls, to have been in his hands 3rd Henry III. 1231, 16th Henry III, Hugh de Kilpeck and William Fitz Warine were two of the eight lords employed to negociate a truce with Llewelyn. This seems positive; but Dugdale says he died about 1207. There is an inquisition upon him 28th Henry III, 1243-4; but it appears from the fine rolls that he died before this. He married Egidia, who married, says Dugdale, William Fitz Warine. He left two daughters, co-heirs, Isabella and Joan. Joan, the younger, aged 17 at her father's death, was the first wife of Philip de Marmion. She held half the barony of Kilpeck, and left three daughters, co-heirs. Philip, who was champion of England and a great supporter of Henry III, left by a second wife a fourth daughter. Each had a quarter of the barony of Marmion, and the elder three had each a third of that of Kilpeck. The Frevilles of Tamworth sprang from Mazera, the second child, and the Ludlows and Dymokes, champions, from Joan, the fourth.

~Archaeologia Cambrensis, Vol. IV, 4^th series, pp. 54-57

Hugh married Egidia.¹²⁴⁸