Sir
Hugh
de Swynford
formerly Swynford
Born about in Lincolnshire, England
Ancestors 
Son of Thomas (Swynford) de Swynford
and Nichola (De Arderne) Swynford
[uncertain]
Brother of
John Swynford [half]
Husband of
Katherine (Roet) Swynford
— married
about 1362 in St Clement Danes, Westminster, Middlesex, England
Descendants 
Died
at about age 31
[location unknown]
Profile last modified
| Created 22 Sep 2010
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Biography
He was a knight in the service of John of Gaunt where he met his wife, Katherine de Roet.
He died at a battlefield in France of dysentery. It is also suggested that he was poisoned by one of John of Gaunt's retainers.
Hugh was born by 1340 as his father's inquisition post mortem in 1361 stated he was 21 years or more.[1]
Sources
- ↑ Weir, Alison. Katherine Swynford : The Story of John of Gaunt and His Scandalous Duchess. London: Vintage Books, 2008, p.59.
- Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), Vol. IV page 503 Footnote 22
Footnote: Edward Grimston, Esq., married (2nd) 26 Sept. 1459 Mary Drury, daughter of William Drury, Knt., by Katherine, daughter of Thomas Swynford, Knt. Mary Drury's great grandmother was Katherine de Roet, wife successively of Hugh de Swynford, Knt., and John of Gaunt, Duke of Aquitaine and Lancaster.
- Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Families: The Complete Genealogy (London, U.K.: The Bodley Head, 1999), p. 102.
- Royal Ancestry 2013 D. Richardson Vol. III p. 492-500
Acknowledgments
Thank you to Lomond Handley for creating Swynford-34 on 26 Nov 13.
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Mags Gaulden
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Catherine and Mindy, I will be cleaning up the biography a bit more. Mags
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