The Hussey family

The Hussey family, after 1066, settled in Dorsetshire, ("Directory of Ancestral Heads of New England Families, 1620-1700": Frank P. Holmes), but were also found in Berkshire, Wiltshire and Somerset, according to "Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire" (Charles Thornton Libby). In medieval England the name of Hussey was generally spelt as 'Hose' evolving into Hoese, Huse, Husee to Hussey and in Latin was first known as Hosatus.

The title granted to Henry, lord Hoese expired upon the death of Henry, second lord Hoese, 21 July 1349.

An Henry Hoese is found on the list of Lord Wardens of the Cinque Ports for a period between 1236-1241, this date would indicate he was nether the first nor second lord, but an ancestor of the same.

Henry Hussey 1st lord Hoese

Henry Hussey 1st lord Hoese, and father of henry second lord Hoese was described in 1309 as "the son of the elder sister of Florence, widow of Walter de Insular [de L'Isle] and co-parencer with her, of Pulburough manor, Sussex".

Henry Hussey was married about 1290, wife's name was Isabel. He was summoned to Parliament on the 24th of June, 1295 and was returned for the following 30 years. He was known as Lord Hussey from 1295.

He was summoned for military service by King Edward I on July 16, 1294 in the putting down of a rebellion in Gascony and "to attend the king wherever he might be", appointed sheriff of Surrey and Sussex in 1320, he continued his military service into the reign of Edward II, until 10th of October, 1325.

Henry, 1st lord Hoese voluntered his service for the defense of the coast in 1296 as a knight of Chichester. He thereafter engaged in military service against Scotland in 1297, 1299, 1301. Overlord of Knygttone Paynell manor in Wiltshire 1317, he was ordered "to remain in the North during the winter campaign" in the war against Scotland in 1315, and occasionally returned to service until 1323.

Lord Hoese was summoned as a knight of Gloucestershire and Sussex to the Great Council at Westminster (9th May, 1324). He was ordered to military service in Gascony on December the 21st, 1324.

Henry Hussey died in February 1331-32 at age 66 "on Friday before St. Peter in cathedra, leaving widow, Isabel, and son and heir," (Knights of Edward I).

Henry 2nd lord Hussey

Henry Hussey, son of Henry Hussey and Isabel Hussey, was born about 1292. "Sir Henry Huse, knight," was returned as Knight of the Shire for Dorsetshire October 11, 1311, according to "Knights of Edward I." He was married about 1314, to Maud but she appears to have died about 1316. On their wedding day Henry 1st lord Hoese gave the bride and groom an estate in Kent. A son was born to Henry Hussey by Maud named Mark Hussey born in about 1316.

About 1317 Henry Hussey was remarried to Katherine FitzAlan, daughter of Edmund FitzAlan, Earl of Arundel. Katherine was sister to Richard FitzAlan, later Earl of Arundel.

The children born to Henry Hussey by Katherine FitzAlan-Hussey were Elizabeth Hussey (b abt 1318), Henry Hussey (b abt 1320), and Richard Hussey (b abt 1323). Katherine died in 1375, according to "History of Gloucestershire." Her will was proved in 1376.

In "Easter week, 1345" in Risley, Gloucestershire an inquisition determined that Henry Hussey held a moiety of Saperton manor and a moeity of Rusyndene manor in Gloucestershire, from the king by a knight's service. According to the "Patent Records" in 1348 Henry Hussey (with others) was commissioned "to determine whether a wall on a river flowing near the border of Kent and Sussex, near Knellesflote, should be dismantled."

Henry Hussey died July 21, 1349, according to "Complete Peerage." He left property in Gloucestershire, Sussex, Southampton, Surrey, Kent and Wiltshire.

Henry Hussey, his grandson and son of Mark Hussey, was named as his next heir and stated to be aged six. His widow Katherine FitzAlan- Hussey later married Sir Andrew Peverell.