Sir Thomas Hoo Knight

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• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
By Sir Robert de Hoo, Hawise was mother of Sir Thomas Hoo, as appears by a release to Sir Thomas Hoo and Hawise, his mother, of dower in West Hyde, Luton, 11 Mar 1330/1, and by a grant to Dame Hawise de Hoo and Thomas de Hoo, her son, 6 Jan 1328/9.

Sir Thomas de Hoo married before 16 Jun 1335, at which date she was aged 15, Isabel, daughter and heir of Sir John de St. Leger, who brought the Sussex and other estates to the family. In the Harleian Roll of Hoo deeds (quoted) appears a charter to Geoffrey de St. Leger, dated 29 Mar 1265, granting to him free warren in his manor of Wartling (Sussex), and an undated charter is a grant to him of the manor of Bucksteep by Thomas de Warbleton in free marriage with his daughter Agnes, reversion to the grantor if Agnes dsp. By a charter dated 20 Dec 1301 John, son of Geoffrey de St. Leger, and Isabel his wife, had a grant of free Warren in Wartling, Bucksteep, etc. By a fine (Hil. 16 Edward III) between Sir Thomas de Hoo and Isabel his wife and Dame Hawise the manors of Offley and Wartling were settled on Sir Thomas and Isabel and the heirs of their bodies, with remainder to Thomas, son of the said Sir Thomas, and to William his brother in tail successively, remainder to right heirs of Isabel. In 1345 there is a record of a grant to Sir Thomas de Hoo and Isabel his wife and Thomas, the son, with remainder to William and Robert, brothers of the said Thomas. Sir Thomas Hoo, who fought at Crecy and Calais, was buried with his wife at St. Albans Abbey.


Sir Robert de Hoo, as son of Sir Robert de Hoo, had a grant in Luton 30 Nov 1310, and married Hawise, apparently widow of Ralph de Goushill, and daughter of Fulk Fitz Warin. She is named as Dame Hawise de Goushill in a grant of Stopsley, and of a messuage and land in Wheathampstead in 1321, and as Hawise de Goushill, late wife of Sir Robert de Hoo, she and her heirs had a grant of the manor of Dunsby (Lincoln) in 1345, among the witnesses being Thomas de Goushill.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. VI, pp. 565-567

• Background Information. ¹²²²
Sir Thomas de Hoo, Knight, son of Robert, married Isabel, only child and heiress of John de Leger, who died in 1326. He was sheriff of Surrey and Sussex for six years, viz. 1348-1350, and again in 1356-1358. He was escheator for both these counties and represented the county of Beford in Parliament. He also had land in Hoo, Bedfordshire, for on 6 May 1372, by a feoffment there dated, he and his wife made a grant to William Nott of a messuage and three acres of land called Nottyslond in Hoo.

Sir Thomas Hoo died 18 Sep 1380, and was buried at St. Albands, leaving his wife surviving. She died 2 July 1393 and was buried with her husband.

~"The Family of Ho", Sussex Archaeological Collections, Vol. VIII, p. 105

Thomas married Isabella St. Leger, daughter of John de St. Leger and Joan ¹⁴¹.^,1222 (Isabella St. Leger was born on 25 May 1319 in Holcot, Northampshire, England ¹²²² and died on 2 Jul 1393 in England ¹²²².)