Family and Education
yr. s. of Sir Robert Hilton (d.c.1400) of Swine and Winestead in Holderness, Yorks. by his 1st w. Isabel (d. by 1395); bro. of Sir Robert. m. (1) by May 1416, Hawise (d. 24 Mar. 1422), da. of Sir Andrew Luttrell (d.1389/90) of Irnham and Hooton Paynell, sis. and h. of Sir Geoffrey Luttrell (d.s.p. 1419), wid. of Sir Thomas Beelsby (d. Sept. 1415) of Beelsby, Lincs., 1s. 1da.; (2) by June 1433, Eleanor, da. of John, 5th Lord Welles (1352-1421) by his 1st w. Eleanor, da. of John, 4th Lord Mowbray (1340-68), and wid. of Sir Hugh Poynings (d.v.p. 1426) of Chawton, Hants. Kntd. by 31 Mar. 1421.C1/10/1; C138/31/14, 63/25B; C139/7/57, 45/35; Lincs. AO, Reg. Buckingham, xii. f. 374; CPR, 1391-5, pp. 654-5; CFR, xiv. 156, 202; CCR, 1454-61, pp. 374-5; A.C. Sinclair, Beelsby, ped. facing p. 26; CP, ix. 383-4; xi. 329-30; xii (2), 441-3.
Offices Held
J.p. Hants 4 Jan. 1442 – Dec. 1458, Lincs. (Kesteven) 3 Apr. 1446-Nov. 1458.
Commr. of array, Hants Oct. 1449, May 1454, Aug. 1456, Sept. 1457, Feb. 1459; inquiry May 1456 (evasions of customs); to assign archers Dec. 1457; make arrests Jan. 1458 (robbers).
Collector of a tax, Hants Aug. 1450.
Main residences: Irnham, Lincs.; Hooton Pagnell, Yorks.
Hylton
Volume
Commons 1386-1421
Web Title
HILTON, Sir Godfrey (-d.1459)
Will
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Oxford 1644
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