♂ Thomas Hoo
1396 - 1455
1st Baron of Hoo, Bedford, and Hastings, Knight of the Garter, Keeper of the Seals
Thomas Hoo - Wikipedia
Thomas, Baron of Hoo and Hastings:
Thomas Hoo, 1st Baron Hoo and Hastings KG (ca. 1396-1455) was a Knight of the Garter and English courtier.
Tho mas was the son of Sir Thomas Hoo (ca.1370 -Luton Hoo, Bedfordshire, 23 August 1420) and wife Eleanor de Felton (litcham, Norfolk, 1378 - 8 August 1400). 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 service 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.
Lor d Hoo died 13 February 1454/5. The barony of Hoo and Hastings became extinct at his death, and his properties were 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.
Marraiges and issue:
Hoo married firstly, before 1 July 1428, Elizabeth Wythingham, daughter of Nicholas Wychingham, esquire, of Wichingham, Norfolk, by whom he had one daughter, Anne Hoo, (born c.1448) who married Sir Geoffrey Boleyn, merver and Lord Mayor of London.
He married secondly, before 1445, Eleanor Welles, daughter of Lionel de Welles, 6th Baron Welles, and his first wife, Joan Waterton, by whom he had three daughters.
-Anne Hoo
-Eleanor Hoo
-Elizabet h Hoo
From Wikipedia, with a long list of References.
* Keeper of the Seals of France was an office in the French monarchy. It's principal function was to supplement or assist the Chancellor of France.