Thomas Hoo, Baron Hoo and Hastings
Noble person
1396 – 1455
Who was Thomas Hoo, Baron Hoo and Hastings?
Thomas Hoo, 1st Baron Hoo and Hastings KG was a Knight of the Garter and English courtier.
Thomas was the son of Sir Thomas Hoo and wife Eleanor de Felton. He succeeded his father in 1420, inheriting the family's ancestral home of Luton Hoo in Bedfordshire as well as Mulbarton, Norfolk and other estates. He fought for Henry VI of England in France, and for his services was made, first Keeper of the Seals, then Chancellor of France. In 1439, he was granted the castle, lordship and honour of Hastings, and in 1445 elected Knight of the Garter. Two years later he was created Baron of Hoo and Hastings.
Lord Hoo died 13 February 1454/5. The barony of Hoo and Hastings become extinct at his death, and his properties passed to his four daughters and his half-brother, Sir Thomas Hoo, born 1416 to his father's second wife, Elizabeth de Etchyngham. The brothers are interred together in the Dacre Tomb at Herstmonceux All Saints Church in Sussex.
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- 1396
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- Died
- 1455
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