Henry FitzHugh, 3rd Baron FitzHugh

Henry FitzHugh, 3rd Baron FitzHugh KG (c. 1363 – 11 January 1425) was an English administrator and diplomat who served under Henry IV and Henry V.

Royal service

Summoned to parliament in 1388, FitzHugh became active in public affairs following Henry IV's succession. He was engaged in Anglo-Scottish diplomacy, taking part in the Battle of Humbleton Hill in 1402 and negotiating the surrender of his uncle, Archbishop of York Richard le Scrope, in 1405. The next year he travelled to Denmark as part of the escort of Philippa, Henry's daughter, for her marriage to Eric of Pomerania, king of Denmark, Norway and Sweden.^[1]

At the coronation of Henry V in 1413, FitzHugh was Constable.^[2] During Henry's reign, he served as Chamberlain of the Household (1413–1425, into the reign of Henry VI), and 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 he 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 lands in the will.^[1]

He became a Knight of the Garter about 1409.^[3]

After his death on 11 January 1425, FitzHugh was buried at Jervaulx Abbey in Yorkshire at his request.^[1]

Religion

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, including the promise of a manor at Cherry Hinton in Cambridgeshire. An English order was established in 1415 at Twickenham with the assistance of Henry V.^[1][4] He was also attended the Council of Constance in 1415.^[1]

Family

A descendant of Akarius Fitz Bardolph,^[2] FitzHugh was the first son of Hugh FitzHugh, 2nd Baron FitzHugh, and Joan, daughter of Henry Scrope, 1st Baron Scrope of Masham. He married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert Grey and his wife, Lora St Quentin. They had eight sons and six daughters, including: William, who succeeded as fourth Baron; Robert, Bishop of London; and Eleanor, wife of Philip Darcy, 6th Baron Darcy de Knayth and Henry Bromflete, 1st Baron Vesci.^[5]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} Reeves, A. C. (January 2008). "Fitzhugh, Henry, third Baron Fitzhugh (1363?–1425)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/50151. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/50151. Retrieved 5 June 2011.  Subscription or UK public library membership required
2. ^ ^{a b} Burke, John (1831). A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland, extinct, dormant, and in abeyance. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. p. 202. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=aB0IAAAAQAAJ. Retrieved 30 May 2011. 
3. ^ "Knights of the Garter". leighrayment.com. 30 April 2011. http://www.leighrayment.com/orders/garter.htm. Retrieved 5 June 2011. 
4. ^ "History of the Bridgettine Order in the UK". Bridgettine Order in the UK. http://www.bridgettine.org/group.asp?page=73. Retrieved 5 June 2011. 
5. ^ "FitzHugh, Baron (created 1321 - abeyant 1513)". Cracroft's Peerage. Heraldic Media. http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/online/content/FitzHugh1321.htm. Retrieved 5 June 2011.