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Sir Hugh Luttrell
b. d. 1521
son of Sir James Luttrell of Dunster
Sir Hugh Luttrell's father, James, died fighting for the Lancastrians, in the 2nd Battle of St Albans on 17 February 1460/1.[1][3][4] He was posthumously attainted by the regime of Edward IV in November 1461, leading to the confiscation of his estates:[1][3][4] he was named as one of those who "with grete despite and cruell violence, horrible and unmanly tyrannye" killed Richard Duke of York in the battle of Wakefield, and therefore to "stand and be convycted and attainted of high treason, and forfett to the King and his heires all the castles, maners" etc.[7][11]
Orders were given for taking James's estates into royal possession on 10 March 1460/1, 9 May 1461 and 10 August 1461.[12]
The above from https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Luttrell-23
Dunster was restored to Sir Hugh Luttrell in 1485
"The signal victory of the Lancastrian party on the field of Bosworth, in August 1485, revived the hopes of all those who had been ejected by the Yorkists. Henry the Seventh had not been on the throne many weeks before some of them were reinstated. Among them Hugh Luttrell, son and heir of Sir James Luttrell, presented a petition to the King in Parliament setting forth that his father had been attainted " for the true faith and allegiaunce which he owid unto the right famous prince of moost blessed memory, then his soveraine lord, Henry late King of England
the sixth, " and praying that the act of attainder should be repealed, and consequent letters patent made void. His petition was readily granted and the agents of the Earl of Huntingdon made way for the rightful lord of Dunster."
Hugh Luttrell of Dunster was created a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of Elizabeth of York, wife of Henry the Seventh, in November 1487. ^ A few days later, he received from his uncle Peter Courtenay, Bishop of Winchester, a grant of the office of Master of Poundsford Park, near Taunton, with an annuity of 10/. for life. ^ He was Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset for a year beginning in November 1488. * Nine years later, he took the field against Perkin Warbeck under the Duke of Buckingham. ^ When the Princess Catherine of Arragon came to England in 1501, in order to marry the Prince of Wales, Sir Hugh Luttrell was one of the seven knights and gentlemen of Somerset who were selected to escort her from Crewkerne to Sherborne.^ In 1513, we find him serving in the royal navy in the ship of Leonard Fiscaballi. '
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At Minehead, Sir Hugh Luttrell built a small pier and enlarged the harbour considerably, to the
great benefit of the little town. ^ In the reign of Henry the Seventh he was the Admiral there, and, on at least one occasion, he presided over a court of Admiralty for the decision of a maritime case. ^
Sir Hugh Luttrell was married twice. His first wife was Margaret, daughter of Robert Hill of Houndston, near Yeovil, a military tenant of the honour of Dunster, by Alice his wife, relict of William Daubeny of Barrington.* This Robert Hill was buried in Dunster
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Church, but his arms are no longer to be seen there. ^ Sir Hugh Luttrell's second wife was Walthean daughter of — Yard of Devonshire, and rehct of Walter Yorke of Exeter and John Drewe.
Church, but his arms are no longer to be seen there. ^ Sir Hugh Luttrell's second wife was Walthean daughter of — Yard of Devonshire, and rehct of Walter Yorke of Exeter and John Drewe.Sir Hugh Luttrell had issue by his first wife four children : —
Andrew, his heir.
John, sometimes called John Luttrell ' the elder ' in contradistinction to his nephew of the same name. He was the ancestor of the Luttrells of Kentsbury and Spaxton.
Elizabeth. She married Sir William Carent of Toomer, in Somerset, who died in 1564. "
Eleanor. She married Roger Yorke, Serjeant at Law, son of her step-mother Dame Walthean Luttrell. ^
It is uncertain whether Sir Hugh left any issue by his second wife. Nothing is known as to the parentage of a certain George Luttrell who is mentioned in 1580 as a 'servant' of Dame Margaret Luttrell.
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Sir Hugh Luttrell died on the i st of February 1521 , and was buried at East Quantockshead."
The above from https://archive.org/stream/historyofdunster01lyte/historyofdunster01lyte_djvu.txt
"A History Of Dunster" BY SIR H.C.MAXWELL LYTE,K.C.B. Deputy Keeper of the Records
