Monarch Henry VHenry VI Name Henry 3rd Nationality English | Preceded by Sir Robert Leche Children Elizabeth FitzHugh | |
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Preceded by The Lord Grey of Codnor Occupation Administrator and diplomat Died January 11, 1425, Ravensworth, United Kingdom Succeeded by Ralph de Cromwell, 3rd Baron Cromwell Grandchildren Sir Thomas Parr, William Parr, 1st Baron Parr of Horton Great grandchildren Catherine Parr, Anne Parr, Countess of Pembroke, William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton Resting place Jervaulx Abbey, Yorkshire, England | ||
Henry FitzHugh, 3rd Baron FitzHugh KG (c. 1363 – 11 January 1425) of Ravensworth Castle in North Yorkshire, was an administrator and diplomat who served under Kings Henry IV and Henry V.
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Origins
FitzHugh was the first son of Hugh FitzHugh, 2nd Baron FitzHugh (A descendant of Akarius Fitz Bardolph,), by his wife Joan Scrope, daughter of Henry Scrope, 1st Baron Scrope of Masham.
Royal service
He was summoned by writ to parliament in 1388, and became active in public affairs following the succession of Henry IV to the throne. He was engaged in Anglo-Scottish diplomacy and took part in the Battle of Humbleton Hill in 1402 and in the negotiation of the surrender of his uncle, Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York, in 1405. In 1406 he travelled to Denmark as part of the escort of Princess Philippa, daughter of King Henry IV, for her marriage to Eric of Pomerania, king of Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
At the coronation of King Henry V in 1413, FitzHugh served as Lord Constable. During the reign of Henry V, he served as Chamberlain of the Household (1413–1425, and into the reign of Henry VI), and as Treasurer of England (1416–1421). He participated in the Battle of Agincourt in 1415 and subsequent diplomacy with the French, which led to the Treaty of Troyes in 1420. He travelled with the king to France, and escorted the king's remains back to England following his death in 1422. He was an executor of Henry's will and was a feoffee of various lands in the will.
He was appointed a Knight of the Garter in about 1409.
Religious foundations
During his travels to the Scandinavian Peninsula in 1406, he visited the Bridgettine Vadstena Abbey in Sweden, where he volunteered to help establish a Bridgettine community in England, and to donate for that purpose his manor of Cherry Hinton in Cambridgeshire. The result was Syon Monastery, established by Henry V in 1415 at Twickenham, Middlesex. He attended the Council of Constance in 1415.
Marriage & progeny
He married Elizabeth Grey (born c. 1363), daughter of Sir Robert de Grey (a son of John de Grey, 2nd Baron Grey de Rotherfield and his second wife the heiress Avice Marmion, a descendant of King John) by his wife Lora St Quentin. In the next generation the FitzHugh family thenceforth quartered the arms of Marmion and St Quentin, as shown later in the arms of Queen Catherine Parr and later still by Herbert, Earls of Pembroke, visible in Wilton House. By his wife he had eight sons and six daughters, including:
Death & burial
He died on 11 January 1425 and was buried in Jervaulx Abbey in Yorkshire, as he requested.