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s. and h. of Sir Robert Hilton (d.c.1400) of Swine and Winestead, by his 1st w. Isabel (d. by 1395); e. bro. of Sir Godfrey. m. Joan (d.1432), da. of Sir Robert Constable, 2da. Kntd. by Mar. 1401.CCR, 1399-1402, p. 310; CPR, 1399-1401, p. 461; Test. Ebor. ii. 16-17, 23-25, G. Poulson, Holderness, ii. 197-8, states that Sir Robert Hilton the elder was at some point married to a Joan Constable, but he has obviously confused father and son. Sir Robert’s first wife was called Isabel (CP25(1)143/145), while his second, whom he married in, or just before, 1395, was Constance, daughter of Thomas, 3rd Lord Sutton, and widow of both Peter, 4th Lord Mauley (d.1383), and Sir John Godard (CPR, 1391-6, pp. 654-5, where her name is mistakenly given as Margaret, hence some of the confusion). Poulson is also wrong in describing Denise and Maud Hilton as the MP’s aunts: they were in fact his sisters. It is important to distinguish Hilton from his distant kinsman and namesake, Sir Robert Hilton of Hilton near Wearmouth (c.1386-1448), de jure 6th Lord Hilton. When necessary, contemporaries referred to the latter as ’the younger’ (CFR, xiii. 186, 218; CPR, 1408-13, p. 318).
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J.p. Yorks (liberty of Beverley) 4 Mar. 1401 – June 1407, 12 Feb. 1408 – d., (East Riding) 16 May 1401 – July 1424, (West Riding) 16 Jan. 1414 – July 1415, Yorks. (generally) 5 July 1419–23.

Commr. of inquiry, Yorks. (East Riding) Mar. 1401 (water supply of Kingston-upon-Hull), Mar. 1402 (confiscation of goods at Hull), June 1406 (concealments and evasions), July 1406 (breach of the statute against forestallers), Feb. 1419 (treasons and evasions), May 1425 (idiocy of John Thymelby); to determine an appeal against a judgement in the ct. of chivalry Sept. 1401; proclaim the King’s intention to rule justly, Yorks. (East Riding) May 1402; of array July, Aug., Sept. 1403, July 1410, May 1415, Oct. 1417, Mar. 1419, Mar 1427; oyer and terminer Aug. 1403 (trespasses), July 1418 (assault on the provost of Beverley); to raise a royal loan June 1406, Nov. 1419.

Collector of a tax, Yorks. (East Riding) Mar. 1404, a royal loan Jan. 1420.

Sheriff, Lincs. 10 Nov. 1414 – 1 Dec. 1415, Yorks. 16 Nov. 1417 – 4 Nov. 1418, 13 Nov. 1423 – 6 Nov. 1424, 7 Nov. 1427–4 Nov. 1428.

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HILTON, Sir Robert
Main residences: Swine; Winestead in Holderness, Yorks.
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C.R.
Volume
Commons 1386-1421
Web Title

HILTON, Sir Robert (-d. c.1431)

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