Sir Hugh Wrottesley,
KG (
fl.
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1334 - d. 23 January 1381), was a founder member and 18th Knight of the
Order of the Garter
The Most Noble Order of the Garter is an order of chivalry founded by Edward III of England in 1348. The most senior order of knighthood in the Orders, decorations, and medals of the United Kingdom, British honours system, it is outranked in ...
in 1348.
Life
He was the son of Sir William Wrottesley, and lord of
Wrottesley in
Staffordshire
Staffordshire (; postal abbreviation ''Staffs''.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England. It borders Cheshire to the north-west, Derbyshire and Leicestershire to the east, ...
. He participated in King Edward III's expedition to the Low Countries in 1338–1339.
Sir Hugh's descendants by the second wife Isabel and son John became peers
Baronets and Barons Wrottesley after several generations.
His armorials were described as follows by
George Wrottesley, in his ''History of the family of Wrottesley of Wrottesley, co. Stafford'':
"The Radcliffes of Ordsall, co. Lancaster, held Moberley
and Sandbach, under the Ardernes of Aldford, and Sir Hugh Wrottesley, after his marriage with Isabella, appears to have assumed the Arms of Radcliffe with a change of tincture, for these Arms, viz , " Or, a bend engrailed Gules," have been ascribed to him by Ashmole, in his "History of the Garter", on the authority of an Armorial in the College of Arms".
References
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George Frederick Beltz
George Frederick Beltz, KH (9 August 1774 – 23 October 1841) was an English genealogist, appointed Lancaster Herald in 1822.
Life
Beltz was the second of seven children of George Nicholas Beltz of St George's, Bloomsbury, a coal merchant, and ...
, ''Memorials of the most noble Order of the Garter'' (1841)
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Garter Knights appointed by Edward III
Medieval English knights