Sir Thomas Hoo Knight of the Garter, 1st Baron Hoo & Hastings

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From: "Sutliff" <suthen_@redshift.com>
Subject: Re: hoo/carew/echyngham
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 15:11:10 -0700

Thomas Hoo d. 1420 was married to Eleanor de Felton and Elizabeth de Echingham. He had two sons named Thomas, one by each wife.

His son Thomas by Eleanor de Felton d. 13 Feb 1455. He was married twice (1) Elizabeth Wichingham (2) Eleanor Welles. By the second lady he was father of Eleanor Hoo who was married to James Carew of Beddington.

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Sir Thomas Hoo, of Luton-Hoo, Beds, Wartling, Sussex, Ockley, Surrey, Mulbarton, Norfolk, &c., son and heir of Sir Thomas Hoo, of the same, by his 1st wife, Eleanor, widow of Sir Robert d'Ufford, of Wrentham, Suffolk, and younger daughter and coheir of Sir Thomas de Felton, K.G., of Litcham, Norf-olk, was Esquire of the Chamber to Thomas (Beaufort), Duke of Exeter, whose will (1426) he witnessed. He was Sheriff of Beds and Bucks 10 Feb 1429/30, and on 18 Jun 1434 was in France. He took part in the operations in the Pays de Caux in 1436, returning apparently to England the same year, when, 19 May, he had a safe conduct, being in the retinue of the Earl of Suffolk.

In 1437 Sir Thomas Hoo was Bailiff of Mantes. He had letters of attornoy on setting out for France, was Captain of Verneuil in 1441. and apparently still Bailiff of Mantes. On 29 Jun 1442, for his services in the wars in France, he was granted £40 a year out of the issues of Norfolk, and on 9 Sep 1442 was nominated one of the commissioners to treat of peace with France. He had letters of attorney, 24 Mar 1443/4, on going abroad on an embassy, being one of the commissioners who negotiated a truce, 27 Jun 1444, and on 12 August following was sent with Sir Robert de Roos and Garter by the King to the Queen in France. He appears as Chancellor in France and Normandy 18 Mar 1444/5, and in July 1445 he and Sir Robert de Roos met the ambassadors of France and Spain at Rochester.

Sir Thomas Hoo was nominated K.G. 11 July, and installed 16 Aug 1445. On 19 Jul 1445 he had a grant to him, his heirs and assigns of the Castle, Lordship, Barony and Honour of Hastings. He appears again as Chancellor of Normandy in 1446, and as Chancellor of France and Captain of Mantes in 1447, and in 1448 as Chancellor of France. On 2 June 1448, for his good service in England, France and Normandy, he was created, the grant being to him and his heirs male, Lord Hoo of Hoo in the county of Bedford and of Hastings in the county of Sussex. He was summoned to Parliament 2 Jan 1448/9, 5 Sep 1450, and 20 Jan 1452/3, by writs directed Thome Hoo Chivaler.

In 1449, as Chancellor of France, Sir Thomas Hoo was sent with the Abbot of Gloucester by the Duke of Somerset, Lieutenant of France and Normandy, to inform the King and Parliament of the state of affairs in France, being also one of the commissioners appointed to deal with the French commanders touching the surrender of Rouen, Caudebec, Harfleur, &c. In 1450 he appears to have returned to England, sharing the unpopularity of the Duke of Somerset. In 1453 he was on a commission to treat in Surrey and Sussex for a loan to relieve the Earl of Shrewsbury's army in the Duchy of Aquitaine and city of Bordeaux.

Sir Thomas Hoo married, 1^stly, Elizabeth, daughter of Nicholas Wychingham, of Wychingham, Norfolk. He married, 2^ndly, Eleanor, daughter and heir of Lionel Wells, Lord Wells. He died s.p.m., 13 Feb 1454/5, when the Barony became extinct. His widow married, 2^ndly, James Lawrence, and, 3^rdly, as is stated, Hugh Hastings.

Sir Thomas Hoo immediate heir male was his brother of the half blood, Thomas Hoo, who died s.p. or s.p.m., 8 Oct 1486. His daughters and coheirs were, by the said Elizabeth [Wychingham], Anne, aged 30 and more at her father's death; and by the said Eleanor [Welles], Anne, aged 8, Eleanor, aged 6, and Elizabeth, aged 4 and more. (1) Anne married, before her father's death, Geoffrey Boleyn, citizen and alderman of London, afterwards knighted, being Lord Mayor of London. She was great-grandmother of Anne Boleyn, 2nd Queen Consort of Henry VIII. (2) Anne married Sir Roger Copley, of Roughey, by whom she had issue Roger Copley. (3) Eleanor is said to have married 1^stly, Thomas Echingham, who died s.p.. She married [2^ndly], in or before 1468, James Carew, by whom she was mother of Sir Richard Carew and grandmother of Sir Nicholas Carew. (4) Elizabeth married, 1stly, Thomas Massingberd, by whom she had a daughter and heir Anne Massingberd, and, 2ndly, Sir John Devenish, by whom she had issue Richard Devenish.

~Cokayne's The Complet Peerage, Vol. VI, pp. 561-565,

Thomas married Alianore Welles, daughter of Sir Lionel Welles Knight of the Gater, Baron de Welles and Joan Waterton.¹⁴¹ (Alianore Welles was born about 1428 in Well, Lincholnshire, England.)