Robert de
Hotham, presumably the son of Durand de Hotham married Agnes daughter of
William Arundel and co-heiress of her brothers William and Master Roger
Arundel.
The evidence
of their marriage is contained in a case in the common pleas of 8 January 1291.
Denise de Munchesney (de Monte Caniso)
brought an assize of darrein presentment to the church of Foston on the Wolds
against the archbishop of York, William the Constable, Robert Ughtred, John de
Driffield and John de Hotham. Denise said that a certain William de Arundel,
her great-great grandfather (abavus)
whose heir she was, presented in the time of King John, a certain Roger Arundel
his clerk. Robert Ughtred said that William de Arundel died without an heir of
his body, and to whom succeeded his sisters Maud and Agnes, that Maud had two
daughters Eufemia, the great-grandmother (proava)
of William the constable, and Alice the ancestress of Denise, and that Agnes
had a son Thomas, the ancestor of John de Hotham and the father of Robert de
Hotham who enfeoffed John de Driffield of land in Foston and the portion of the
advowson pertaining to him. Denise gave her line of descent from Cecily an
elder sister of Maud, although William the Constable disputed this [1].
Robert de
Hothum was a witness to undated gifts of land to Watton Priory [2].
Between 1175
and 1195, Robertus de Hothum, and
Walramus frater ejus were witnesses to a grant by William Fossard II to
Roger de Lockinton, his clerk, of a bovate of land in Lockington [3].
In a deed
said to be dated between 1210 and 1220, Nicholas de Stuteville gave to the
abbey of Meaux, the homage and service of Robert de Hothom for two bovates of
land in Cranswick [4].
[1] TNA: CP 40/88 m. 149 as cited
in Charles T. Clay, ed., Early Yorkshire Charters, Vol. 11: The Percy Fee,
Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Extra Series 9, 1963, 198.
[2]
Lancashire Record Office: Hornby Catholic Mission Papers (St Mary's Church)
Watton Priory, RCHY 3/5/8, 3/5/25.
[3] Dodsw. MS. vii, f. 279 as cited
in Farrer, Early Yorkshire Charters, 3:414.
[4] Edward A. Bond, ed., Chronica
Monasterii de Melsa, a Fundatione Usque Ad Annum 1396, Auctore Thoma de Burton,
Abbate. Accedit Continuatio Ad Annum 1406 a Monacho Quodam Ipsius Domus,
vol. 1, Rolls Series 43 (London, 1866), 376.
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