Sir Hugh Meynell Knight

   Another name for Hugh was Sir Hugh de Meinel Knight.

  General Notes:

Pedigree from The Topographer and Genealogists, Vol. I, pp. 357

Geoffrey le Savage had a half a knights fee in Hints, co. Stafford
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Geoffrey le Savage = Letitia, daughter of Seward de Arderne son of Turketil Earl of Warwick.
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Geoffrey le Savage, of Bagginton Castle, Warwick, Lord of Hintes, ob. 1221 = Petronilla, daughter of Hugh le Despencer
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Geoffrey le Savage, ob. 1221
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Philippa who married Hugh de Meignell of Langley Meignell, Knight, 1251
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William de Meignell, of Langley Meignell, Lord of Hints, ob. 1313
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Hugo de Meignell = Alice (step)daughter of Ralph Lord Bassest of Drayton. ⁸³²

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
The Meinills of Langely Meinill were descended from Hugh de Meinill, living circa 1251, steward of William de Ferrers, Earl of Derby, and his descendant, Sir Hugh de Meinill was summoned for military service to Newcastle-upon-Tyne in Apr 1327 [Nichols, Top. & Gen. v.i, p. 357; Nichols, Leicestershire, vol.ii, p. 532]

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. VII, p. 319, footnote (b)

Hugh married Alice Audley, daughter of Nicholas de Audley Lord Audley and Joan Martin, before 4 Mar 1343.¹⁴¹