Hugh Fitz Baldric

  General Notes:

K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, pp. 267-268, Hugo filius Baldrici, Domesday tenant-in-chief in North but lost lands after 1086.

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ⁸⁰⁰
Hugh Fitz Baldric "held of the king," the manor of Sourth Warborough, at the time of the Domesday Survey. This manor was passed on to his daughter on her marriage to Guy de Craon, and was held in succession by his son, Alan, then grandson, Maurice and great-grandson, Guy de Croan. The manor then passed on his daughter Petronilla, was first married to William de Longchamp, secondly to Henry de Mara, and thirdly to Oliver de Vaux, and held the manor jointly with her respective husbands until her death in 1280. At the time of Petronilla's death, the manor passed on to the son of her first marriage, Henry de Longchamp.

~A History of the County of Hampshire: Volume 3, pgs. 378-382

• Background Information. ¹¹²⁴
Hugh Fitz Balderic was the Sheriff of Yorkshire in 1074, and is mentioned in the Domsday Survey.

~ A History of Northumberland, Part I, p. 201

• Background Information.
"The Sheriff, Hugh Fitz-Baldric, found cxxxvi. men residing (there): no there are sixteen less. The said Hugh, moreover, erected on the Earl's land in the new borough xxx. dwellings, which before were not, putting them in the census of the old borough.