Odard Udard de Dutton

• Preferred Name: Odard Udard de Dutton
  
• Gender: M
  
• FSID: GHDH-BCD
  
• Death: 1096 in Dutton, Cheshire, England at LATI: N3.3089 LONG: E2.6395
  
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• Birth: 1046 in Cotentin, Manche, Duchy of Normandy, France at LATI: N9.5 LONG: E1.5
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  Odard de Dutton, 1st Lord of Dutton
  Birthdate: circa 1046
  Birthplace: Normandel, Orne, Basse-Normandie, France
  Death: circa 1086 (31-48)
  Dutton, Runcorn, Cheshire, England
  Immediate Family:
  Son of Yvo "Bellomontensis" de Cotentin, [NOT de Beaumont or Vicomte/Viscount] and Emme de Bretagne
  Husband of Alice Dutton
  Father of Hugh FItzodard de Dutton, 2nd Lord of Dutton and Gilbert Fitzodard
  Brother of Jean de Hatton; Niel /Nigel de Cotentin, Lord of Halton, Constable of Chester; Wolfrid, Lord of Hatton; Walter de Hatton, Lord de Hatton; Edard, Lord of Heswall and 3 others
  Occupation: Lord of Dutton, born in Cotentin, Manche, Low Normandy, 1ST LORD
  , or Udard, sometimes also written Hodard and Hudard, came into England with William the Conquerer, and seated himself at Dutton, a good part whereof Hugh Lupis, earl of Chester, gave unto him, as before you have heard out of Doomseday-book.
  
  The ancient roll of the barons of Halton saith, that with Hugh earl of Chester came on Nigell, a nobleman; and with |Nigell came five brethren, to wit, Hudard, Edard, Woimere, Horsewyne, and Wolfaith, a priest, to whom Nigell gave the church of Runcorne; and unto Hudard the same Nigell gave West and Great Aston, now divided into two townships, Aston Grange and Aston juxta Sutton pro uno feodo militis; and from this Hudard came all the Duttons. Lib. C. fol. 84, 85 et Monasticon Anglicanum, 2 pars. pag. 187. And in the record of Doomsday, Odard held Aston under William Fitz-Nigell, baron of Halton; and also Odard and Brictric held Weston under the said William, anno Domini 1086. Whether those five brethren aforenamed were brethren to Nigell, is a doubt; for then, methinks, he should have said-Quinque fratres sui; whereas, he says onely- Cum isto Nigello vencrunt quinque fratres; and so names them.
  
  This Hudard's of Odard's sword, is at this day (1665) in the custody of the lady Elinour, viscountess Kilmorey, sole daughter and heir of Thomas Dutton, late of Dutton esquire, deceased; which sword hath for many ages past, been preserved, and passed over from heir to heir as an heir-loom by the name of Hudard's sword, and so at this day it is by tradition receieved and called. Lib. C. fol. 163. dd." --The History of the County Palatine and City of Chester: Comp. from Original Evidences in Public Offices, the Harleian and Cottonian Mss., Parochial Registers, Private Muniments, Unpublished Ms. Collections of Successive Cheshire Antiquaries, and a Personal Survey of Every Township in the County; Incorporated with a Republication of King's Vale Royal and Leycester's Cheshire Antiquities, Volume 1 by George Ormerod, Daniel King, William Smith, William Webb (sheriff.), Sir Peter Leyceste
  
  === [[Category: Dutton, Cheshire]] [[Categor ===
  [[Category: Dutton, Cheshire]] [[Category: Dutton of Dutton, English Pedigrees]]
  {{Succession box
  | title = Odard
  1st Dutton of Dutton
  | years = 1086 - ?
  | preceded-text = Preceded by
  | before = Raven
  | succeeded-text = Succeeded by
  | after = [[Dutton-402|Hugh I Dutton]]
  }}
  
  == Biography ==The ''Domesday Book'' says in 1066 the free men, Edward and Raven, held Dutton (Duntune, meaning town on a hill) inCheshire, and by 1086 earl Hugh held it and it had been split betweenthree subtenants: Osbern fitzTezzo (Osberne son of Tezzon, ancestor of the Boydells of Dodleston[[#OrmerodI|Ormerod,Vol I, 1819]] [https://archive.org/stream/historyofcountyp00orme#page/474/mode/2up p 475], quoting Leycester, Peter. ''Historical Antiquities, in Two Books: The First Treating in General of Great-Brettain and Ireland : the Second Containing Particular Remarks Concerning Cheshire''. London: Printed by W.L. for Robert Clavell, 1673.); William fitzNigel; and Odard who held the part formerly held by Raven.{{EE citation|author=King's College London|title="Domesday"|website=The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE)|publication-place=UK|year=2010|accessdate=8 December 2015|url=[http://domesday.pase.ac.uk/?SearchField_1=Vill&Text_1=dutton&TenantType_1=&SearchField_2=&Text_2=&grouping=&sizeGroup=Default&qr=1&tab=tbl&col=c1 vill=Dutton]}} Odard, also at times written as Udard, Hodard and Hudard, was one of five brothers (the others were Edard, Wolmere, Horswyne and Wolfath, a priest) recorded on the roll of the barons of Halton, who accompanied Nigell, a nobleman, when he came into England with William the Conqueror. Nigell gave the church of Runcorne to Wolfaith, and to Hudard he gave Weston and Great Aston (later divided into Aston Grange and Astonjuxta Sutton).[[#OrmerodI|Ormerod, Vol I, 1819]] [https://archive.org/stream/historyofcountyp00orme#page/476/mode/2up p 476], quoting Leycester, Peter. ''Historical Antiquities, in Two Books: The First Treating in General of Great-Brettain and Ireland : the Second Containing Particular Remarks Concerning Cheshire''. London: Printed by W.L. for Robert Clavell, 1673.
  Hodard may have married the heiress of Dutton.{{EE citation|title="The visitation of Cheshire in the year 1580 made by Robert Glover, Somerset Herald, for William Flower, Norroy king of arms, with numerous additions and continuations, including those from the visitation of Cheshire made in the year 1566, by the same herald. With an appendix, containing the Visitation of a part of Cheshire in the year 1533, made by William Fellows, Lancaster Herald, for Thomas Benolte, Clarenceux king of arms. And a fragment of the Visitation of theCity of Chester in the year 1591, made by Thomas Chaloner, deputy to the Office of arms"|editor1-last=Rylands|editor1-first=John Paul|journal=The Publications of the Harleian Society|year=1882|volume=XVIII|publication-place=London|publisher=Harleian Society|accessdate=22 December 2015.|repository=Archive.org|url=https://archive.org/stream/visitationofches00glov#page/88/mode/2up|pages=88}} https://archive.org/stream/magnabrittanicab02lyso#page/522/mode/2up p523
  
  Hodard had children:#Hugh, died at Kekwick, to whom Randle II, earl of Chester known as Gernoniis, confirmed the lands he inherited from his father that were held in capite, or immediately of the earl of Chester, circa the end of the reign of King Henry I of England, (reigned 1100-1135);#Gilbert, who with his brother Hugh, gave a mill at Walton, between Keckwick and Warrington, to the Augustinian canons at the priory of St. Mary at Runcorn which William FitzNeal founded in 1115 and was moved to Norton in 1134;A P Baggs, Ann J Kettle, S J Lander, A T Thackerand David Wardle, 'House of Augustinian canons: The abbey of Norton',in A History of the County of Chester: Volume 3, ed. C R Elrington and B E Harris (London, 1980), pp. 165-171 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/ches/vol3/pp165-171 [accessed 8 December 2015].#Rafe le Dispensator, the ancestor of the Despensers, was recorded in some pedigrees as another son of Odard and brother of Hugh;[[#HelsbyOrmerodI|Ormerod ed Helsby, Vol I, 1882]] p 643.
  William Fitz-Nigell, the second baron of Halton, gave Newton near Chester to the monastery of St. Werburge in Chester, together with the service of Hugh son of Hudard (that was Hugh de Dutton) in 1119.
  
  ===Legacy===From Hudard all the Duttons of Dutton, the Warburtons of Arley, the Chedills, the Ashleys and the Duttons of Hatton nigh Warton in Cheshire are descended. Odard's son, Hugh, assumed thesurname Dutton from the place of his residence.
  
  ===Odard's Disputed Brothers and Ancestry===
  '''Chester's Pentice Cartulary copied in 1576'''
  In 1576 documents, dated from 1175, important to the city of Chester because they recorded the rights and customs of the city of Chester andset legal precedents, both of content and form, were copied from the Pentice Cartulary, into the ''Black Book'' of which another copy was made during Mayor Henry Gee's term in 1539-40. Gee's book was again copied during Mayor Henry Hardware's second term in 1576. In Hardware's book, in the margin on folio 67, is written:The National Archives Website: Discovery: ZCHB/2, Chester City Council Records, CITY OF CHESTER CARTULARIES,PENTICE CARTULARY; THE PENTICE CARTULARY C.1175-1212 [EXTRACT], http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/rd/5c74ed0c-476e-4675-abfb-83a8f032a9fd#, accessed 23 December 2015.

  "The names of the foure bretherne which came with William Conqueror."
  
  #Neele Lord of Halton, constable of Cheshire.
  
  #Hodard Lord of Dutton, Marshall of Cheshire.
  
  #Edward Lord of Hawarden, Steward of Cheshire.
  
  #Gebard Lord of Doneham, Chamberlain of Cheshire.
  

  
  
  '''Leycester published 1673'''
  Leycester in ''Historical Antiquities'' quotes from the ''Monasticon Anglicanum'', 2 pars, page 187:[[#OrmerodI|Ormerod, Vol I, 1819]] [https://archive.org/stream/historyofcountyp00orme#page/506/mode/2up p 506-7], quoting Leycester, Peter. ''Historical Antiquities, in Two Books: The First Treating in General of Great-Brettainand Ireland : the Second Containing Particular Remarks Concerning Cheshire''. London: Printed by W.L. for Robert Clavell, 1673.

  ''Cum Hugone comite venit quidam nobilis, nomine Nigellus ; et cum isto Nigello venerunt quinque fratres, videlicet, Hudardus, Edardus, Wolmerus, Horswine, et Wolfaith : dictus vero comes Cestriae dedit praefato Nigello baroniam de Halton, ad quara pertinent novem feoda militum, et dimidium, et quarta pars unius feodi, et quinta pars unius feodi, nomine constabularii Cestrias ; et fecit eum mareschallum suum, ita quod quando dictus Hugo comes exercitum suum mitteret in Walliam, dictus Nigellus et haeredes sui in eundo praecederent, et in redeundo ciim exercitu ultiuii remanerent, lib. C. fol. 84, et ob hanc causam dedit praefatus Hugo comes dicto Nigello duo feoda militum in Englefeld citra Rothland ; et illam terram tenuerunt praefatus Nigellus ethaeredes sui usque ad tempus Rogeri Hell.''

  
  Leycester then says "This Nigell, if we may believe Pecham in his ''Compleat Gentleman'', pag. 189 (Peacham, Henry, and George S. Gordon. ''Compleat Gentleman'' 1634. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1906. [https://archive.org/stream/cu31924093830358#page/n237/mode/2up p 195]) was the son of Ivo (vice-comes or governor of Constantia in Normandy) by Emme, sister to Adam earl of Bretagne. ''Sed quaere'' (but query). Leycester also says ''Quaere'' if [Nigell is] of this family. He also says Odard and his brothers are probably not Nigell's brothers because then it would have been written "''Quinque fratres sui''" (his five brothers).
  Sir Peter Leycester gives an abstract (p. 476) of a charter which confirms the earliest descents of the Dutton pedigree, which was In the possession of lady Kilmorey in 1649:

  ''Hoc sciant Franci e. Angli, e. o'nes Cristiani, q'od egoWill'm. fili. Nigelli, Ranulfi comitis co'stabilari, e. Will'm. parit. fili, meus, i. die illa q'a visitavim. Hugone. filiu. Hodardi i. infirmitate sua apud Kekwic, reddidim. filio ej. Hugoni tota. terra, patris sui, qua'cunq. de me tenu't unqu'm ut illud de me e. filio meo firmit. co'cessu. teneret. Dedit mi. ipse Hugo fili. Hodardi lorica sua. e. suu. dextrariu ..... e. q' — da. e. filiu. ej. Hugo filio meo Will'mo palefridum quendam dedit e. nisum. e. huic rei testes ..... d fili. Unfridi, Will'm. Capellan. Radulf. del Voil, Will'm. dapifer. Rob't. fili. ..... Condi et fr's ej. Rob't. fil. Picoti, Rannulfus Venator,Ricardus fil. ej', Rob't. ..... fili. Pet', Rob't. Burell, Walter fil. Wacelini, Gaufrid. Ulsari, Gilleb'L fili. m' ..... el, Tomas fili. Pagani de Vilers, Ledolf. de Crocstun, Radulf. de Breartun, Oever de R.....a, Roger dapifer. de Barua, Will'm. filiu. ej. W'lgrim, Pad. de Neuton, Ascherill de P'stun, Ricard. de Mora, e. cet'i q'i aderant.''

  
  
  '''Lysons published 1810'''
  Lyson says in ''Magna Britannia'' Vol II that Odard was the son of Yvron, viscount of Constantine without providing a source.{{EE citation|title=''Magna Britannia; being a Concise Topographical Account of the Several Counties of Great Britain''|first1=Daniel|last1=Lysons|first2=Samuel|last2=Lysons|year=1810|volume=II containing Cambridgeshire, and the County Palatine of Chester|publication-place=London|publisher=Printed for T Cadell and W Davies|accessdate=22 December 2015.|repository=Archive.org|url=https://archive.org/stream/magnabrittanicab02lyso#page/522/mode/2up|
  
  === THE DUTTONS OF DUTTON ===
  THE DUTTONS OF DUTTON
  
  The earliest progenitor of the Dutton family in this country (England) was Odard, the eldest or first- named of five brothers, who came over together, one of them as a priest, from Avranches (the birthplace of Lanfranc, their contemporary), in Normandy, at the time of the conquest.
  
  Odard could scarcely have chosen, if he did himself choose it, a more beautiful situation for his descendants than the site of Dutton Hall, with its magnificent prospect stretching away across the valley of the river Weaver, which winds through the view to the distant wooded hills beyond.
  
  It embraces a considerable expanse of scenery which, we are told, obtained for the county the name of the Vale Royal of England, and from which Edward I is said to have named the abbey of Vale Royal, which he founded on the banks of the Weaver a few miles
  from Dutton. (The name Dutton (Duntune) is derived from the Saxon dun, a hill or down, and means a tov n upon a hill or down (Omerod, i. 642). There are four other townships named Dutton in England; one on the fells in the parish of Ribchester in Lancashire, and and three in the parish of Holt in Denbighshire: in each the name is used in the same way.)
  
  The portion now (1901) remaining of Dutton Hall, the home of Odard’s descendants for six centuries, is an interesting half-timbered structure, standing back from - though within sight of the main road from Northwich to Runcorn, and distant about midway between these places, with its roofed or “weather end” towards the highway. It is supposed to have formed the east side
  of a quadrangle, and comprises the hall as built by Sir Piers Dutton and his lady in 1539-42, for the purpose of connecting the adjacent chapel with the house; but the chapel has since disappeared.
  
  === TITLE: Lord of Dutton NOTE: Emigration t ===
  TITLE: Lord of Dutton NOTE: Emigration to ENGLAND abt. 1066 from Avranches, Normandy, FRANCE
  
  === Part 2 CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF INCIDENTS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DUTTON FAMILY, A. D. 1611-1784 ===
  1611. Death of Elizabeth Dutton, “a wife, a widow and a maid”
  [Oct. 2], aged sixteen. Buried in the chancel of St. Martin’s-
  in-the-fields, London.
  
  1613. William Dutton, of Sherborne, purchased the manor of Stand- ish, in Gloucestershire, from the Winston family.
  
  1614. Death of Thomas Dutton, the last of the Duttons of Dutton [Dec. 28], aged fourty-six. Twentieth in direct descent from Odard. Funeral sermon preached in Great Budworth and
  afterward printed.
  
  1618. Death of William Dutton, the second family owner of Sherborne [Nov. 10], aged fifty-seven.
  
  1624. [Sir] Ralph Dutton of Standish, gentleman of the privy
  chamber, knighted by James I, at Woodstock [Aug.].
  
  1639. Marriage of Lucy Dutton and the earle of Downe, at Sherborne [Nov. 26]. John Dutton, her father, had purchased the wardship and marriage of the earl, to whom he married her.
  
  1640. John Dutton, of Sherborne, sat in the “Long Parliament,
  and went to Oxford with the king, and is said to have drafted
  the articles upon the surrender of that city to the parliament.
  
  In 1642, offered to lend Charles I 50,000 pounds [Lord Mon¬
  tagu’s correspondence]. Paid 5,216 pounds composition as a
  royalist for his estates. Afterwards as an admirer and person¬
  al friend of Oliver Cromwell’s, whose daughter, Frances, he
  arranged for his nephew and heir to marry. In his will he ap¬
  points Cromwell as guardian of his nephew, and alludes to the
  proposed marriage “which I much desire and if it takes ef¬
  fect, shall account it as a blessing from God". It did not take
  place.
  
  1643. Charles I entertained by Lucy [Dutton], countess of Downe, at the Dutton manor-house at Coberly [Sept. 6.], and again in 1644 [July 11].
  
  c. 1646. Death of Ralph Dutton, of Standish, a royalist officer, said to have been wrecked and cast ashore on Burntisland in 1646. Upon the outbreak of the civil w’ar he raised a regiment for the king, which was the second raised, “and came into his
  Majesty complete 800 with filing colours at the setting up of
  his royal standard at Nottingham”. He also compiled a manual of prayers for its use.
  
  1653. William Dutton, the heir to Sherborne, sent by Oliver Cromwell, his guardian, to Eton with the poet Marvell.
  
  1656. Death of Lucy [Dutton], countess of Downe, at Coberly
  [Easter Day], aged thirty-two. According to the parish register, “she fasted from eating and drinking before her death
  ten days”.
  
  1656-57. Death of John Dutton of Sherborne [Feb. 18], aged sixty- three. “He was a learned and a prudent man; and as one of the richest so one of the meekest men in England” [Anthony
  Wood], Oliver Cromwell wrote a letter of condolence to Mrs.
  Dutton of Sherborne, alluding to the “great loss of your noble
  husband, and my very good friend”.
  
  1657. The Colt-Dutton lawsuit for the Sherborne estates between John Dutton’s son-in-law and his nephew [verdict, Nov. 4]. “The greatest discourse of the town for this term hath been the issue between Mr. Colt and young Dutton for the Dutton estate of Sherborne, which was tried yesterday in the Upper bench; and held the court from nine in the morning to nine at night, much gentry being present of both sexes, but it
  went with Mr. Dutton” [Francis Newport to sir R. Leveson,
  Nov. 5, 1657].
  
  1665-66. Death of Eleanor, then viscountess Kilmorey [the Dutton heiress], at Dutton [March 12]. Buried at Great Budworth.
  
  1675. Death of William Dutton of Sherborne, formerly Oliver
  Cromwell’s ward [bur. April 5].
  
  1678. Ralph Dutton, of Sherborne, created a baronet by Charles II [June 20]. Represented Gloucestershire in parliament 1678-79,
  
  1688-90, and 1695. His favorite pastime was greyhound coursing. In 1691, he was described in a news-letter, as “one of thechief men of England for that sport”.
  
  DUTTON CHAPEL, PARISH CHURCH
  GREAT BUDWORTH
  
  1680. Sir Richard Dutton appointed governor of Barbados [Oct. 22].
  Originally of Chester, left the law at the age of seventeen for
  the army, served as a royalist officer throughout the civil
  war; and was twice imprisoned in the Tower. Became an officer in the duke of York’s guards, and knighted by Charles
  II.
  Arrived at Barbados in March, 1681. Twice thanked by
  Charles II for his vigorous administration of the colony, but
  eventually made enemies.
  Returned in 1685. “I hope Sir Richard’s home-coming will be for his honour and advantage what endeavours soever have been used to lessen him there. Sir Richard has been known to be more a soldier than a lawyer, which I presume is the reason he committed the jurisdiction of the court of grand sessions to those that were better skilled in the laws than himself” [Letter to Pepys. 1685]. Made his will in 1702-3, “being of great age,” and died shortly afterwards. [His elder daughter was a legatee under the will of lady Dutton, of Sherborne, in 1721. who described her as her cousin.]
  
  1683. Birth of John, son of Sir Ralph Dutton of Sherborne, whom he succeeded in the baronetcy.
  
  1711. Duke of. Hamilton created Baron of Dutton [Sept. 5]. Killed in a duel with lord Mohun the following year. [Nov. 15].
  
  1728. Marriage of sir John Dutton, bart., with his second wife,
  Mary Keck, at Hampstead [Junel] by bishop of Ely.
  
  1730. Elizabeth Dutton’s monumental effigy removed to Little
  Little Gaddesden church, Herts, by the duke of Bridgewater.
  
  1742-43. Death of sir John Dutton, the second and last baronet of Sherborne. Buried at midnight [Feb. 4]. He kept a minute account of all his personal expenses.
  
  1748. A remarkable run by “Lord Chedworth and Mr. Dutton of
  Sherborne’s confederate pack of hounds for five hours over
  the finest country in England” [Dec. 5].
  
  1784. Creation of James Dutton, of Sherborne, esquire, as Lord
  Sherborne, Baron of Sherborne, in Gloucestire, in the peerage
  of Great Britain, by George III [May 20].
  
  BIBLIOGRAPHY
  (Dutton Genealogy)
  
  Archives of Pennsylvania.
  
  Cope’s Genealogy of Duttons of Pennsylvania
  
  Deleware County Historical Society, Chester, Pa.
  
  Egle’s History of Pennsylvania.
  
  Henry Graham Ashmead’s History of Deleware County,
  Pa., 1884.
  
  Martin’s History of Chester Pennsylvania.
  
  Smith’s History of Deleware County, Pa., 1862.
  
  Young’s History of Pennsylvania (vol. 1. List of passengers on the “Welcome.” (London Gazette, Sept. 4,
  1682, “Last day of August the good ship “Welcome”
  left the mouth of the Thames “Robert Greenway,
  Master.”) The ship was two months on the trip. It arrived October 24 at the mouth of the Deleware River
  and at Upland (Chester) October 29, 1682.
  Andrews History of Ohio, p. 275.
  
  Duttons of Dutton, England.
  
  Duttons of Aurelius Township, Washington County,
  Ohio.
  
  History of Washington County (Ohio), published by
  H. Z. Williams, 1881.
  
  “The Passengers of the Welcome” by E. B. Cowgill, placed in the Kansas State Historical Society, Jan. 19,
  1897.
  
  https://archive.org/stream/duttonsofduttone00dutt/duttonsofduttone00dutt_djvu.txt
  
  === Odard or Hudard came into England with W ===
  Odard or Hudard came into England with William the Conqueror and wasseated at Dutton, a greater part of which Hugh Lupus, 1st Earl ofChester, gave to him. This Hudard's sword has been preserved and passedover from heirs as an heirloom by name of Hodard's sword. The town ofDutton, Cheshire Co., Eng., is mentioned three times in the DomesdayBook, written Duntyne, as held by three persons, of whom one Odard orHudard seemed to own the greatest part, and the other parts at last cameto the posterity of Odard. Dun in the Saxon language signifies hill, forwhich the English now use down, so that Duntune signified a town on ahill, now Dutton. From this town did the ancient family of Dutton assumetheir surname and the posterity of Odard have continued to the present. Sources: Ormerod's History of Cheshire County, England, Vol. 1, pp. 426-430, 475-477 and 398. Sir Peter Leycester's Antiquities of Cheshire (quoted in Ormerod). Collins Peerage of England, Vol. 8.
  
  === Part 1 CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF INCIDENTS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DUTTON FAMILY, A. D. 1066-1610 ===
  
  CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
  OF INCIDENTS IN CONNECTION WITH
  THE DUTTON FAMILY, A. D. 1066-1784
  
  DUTTON HALL
  
  1066. Odard, the Norman ancestor, with his five brothers, came
  over from Avranches in Normandy, in the army of William
  the Conqueror.
  
  1086. Odard established at Dutton [Duntune], in Cheshire, where he owned a third part of the township at the time of the
  Domesday Survey. The remaining portions were acquired by
  his descendents in 1341 and 1354.
  
  1187-89. Sir Goeffrey de Dutton served upon the second or third crusade to the Holy Land. [Ancestor of the Warburtons of
  Warburton and Arley.]
  
  c. 1216. Hugh de Dutton granted the jurisdiction over the Cheshire minstrels by the constable of Chester.
  
  c. 1236. Hugh de Dutton built Poosey chapel within the demesne of Dutton.
  
  c. 1272. Sir Thomas de Dutton, the first knight of the family, added the chapel at Dutton.
  
  1276. Birth of Hugh de Dutton [Dec. 81, baptized at Great
  Budworth the following day. In 1315 he sued the prior of
  Norton for not providing a chaplain and lamp at Poosey chapel.
  
  1293. [Sir] Peter de Dutton knighted by Edward I [Jan. 1.]
  
  1300. Siege of Caerlaverock [Julyll]. Hugh le Despencer,present
  at the siege, bore the Dutton arms differenced with a bend
  [Roll of Caerlaverock.]
  
  1309. Robert de Dutton represented Staffordshire in parliament;and again in 1314, 1319, 1321, 1328, 1329 and
  1333. [ARobert de Dutton is mentioned in the military accounts
  as in the retinue of lord Audley. He may have been the Dutton who is said to have been one of the four esquires who fought beside lord Audley at Poictiers.]
  
  1314. John de Dutton and Robert de Dutton, summoned to
  perform military service in person against the Scotch [June
  30]. to muster at Newcastle-on-Tyne on August 15 following. [Scotch Roll, 8 Edw. II.]
  
  1356. Battle of Poictiers [Sept. 19.] A member of this family is
  said to have been one of the four squires who, according to
  Froissart, fought beside lord Audley in the battle. The “fret” in
  the Dutton arms is traditionally, but improbably, said to have
  been adopted by desire of lord Audley, being his own arms or
  badge in memory of that occasion.
  
  1359. Letters of protection granted to Thomas de Dutton while
  absent beyond sea in the retinue of the Prince of Wales, the “Black Prince” [Dec. 16].
  
  1397. Sir Thomas de Dutton founded a chantry at Warrington
  with a priest to pray for his soul and for the souls of his two
  wives and of his family and of his wives’ relations yearly
  forever, and their names to be entered in the convent’s
  martyrology.
  
  1379. Agnes de Dutton elected prioress of the Benedictine
  nunnery of St. Mary’s, Chester. Died 1386.
  
  1381. Death of Sir Thomas de Dutton [May 1].
  
  c. 1390. Hugh Dutton, second son of Edmund de Dutton,
  became lord of Hatton, near Chester, in the right of his wife,the
  Vernon co-heiress. [From Hatton later, the family branches to
  Chester, Holt in Denbighshire, Cloughton in Yorkshire and
  Sherborne in Gloustershire.]
  
  1403. Sir Peter de Dutton, pardoned for taking part with Henry Percy, surnamed Hotspur [Nov. 3.]
  
  1403-4. Sir Peter de Dutton ordered by writ from the Prince of
  Wales to hasten and take up abode on the marches of Wales,
  and there to make defence against the invasion of Owen
  Glendower [Jan. 11].
  
  1405. Hugh de Dutton commissioned to conduct men-at-arms
  to the marches.
  
  1410. Sir Peter de Dutton had license to empark the manor of
  Dutton.
  
  1415. Eattle of Agincourt [Oct. 25]. Sir Thomas Dutton, with 10
  men-at-arms and 30 mounted archers in the retinue of Henry
  V, and Laurence Dutton, in the retinue of the earl of Huntingdon, present at the battle. Sir Thomas received as
  security for the payment of wages, a tablet of gold, with the
  Trinity on the top and beneath their feet the Virgin Mary; on
  the foot of the table were the three kings of Cologne. It was
  garnished with 27 large pearls, seven of them worth five marks
  each, and the other twenty worth 30d. each, weighing 5 lb.1oz., which had been given to the city of London to Richard
  II, in 1392, then valued at 800 pounds. It was redeemed by
  the Crown 4, Henry VI.
  
  1417. [April 6] Sir Thomas de Dutton obliged to set aside 60
  pounds yearly, for three years, to defray the debts which had
  been incurred upon the voyage with the king to Harfleur.[Chester Recognizance Rolls.] The siege and capture of Harfluer
  in the month preceding the battle of Agincourt.
  
  1459. Sir Thomas de Dutton, with his brother John Dutton, and his eldest son Peter Dutton, killed at the battle of Blore heath, in Cheshire [Sunday, Sept. 23], during the War of the Roses.
  
  1462. [June 18] Grant to John Dutton, of Hatton, of the
  frithmote of the forest of Mara and Mondrem, until he should
  have satisfied himself out of the issues of the same, for 100
  pounds, expended by him in attending at the king’s command at Chester with certain men [Chester Recognizance Rolls.]
  
  1476. Dutton archives [Jan. 22]. Warrant for the conveyance to the Exchequer at Chester of two chests containing charters, etc., of all the possessions of Roger Dutton, esq., deceased, which were then in the earl of Chester’s hands, by the minority
  of Laurence Dutton, the son and heir, with note of their delivery. [Chester Recognizance Rolls.]
  
  1481. Peter Dutton, of Hatton, father of sir Piers Dutton,
  outlawed for a raid.
  
  1496. Peter Dutton, Lieutenant-Governor of the Isle of Man.
  
  1499. The Crown challenged the rights of the Duttons’
  jurisdiction over the minstrels and vagrants of Cheshire and
  admitted it.
  
  1500. Lady Strangways, then of York [formerly Mrs. Dutton of Dutton], bequeathed her red velvet bonnet to her daughter
  in-law at Dutton to pray for her soul.
  
  c. 1507. Birth of Thomas Dutton, descendant from the Duttons
  of Hatton and Dutton, founder of the Sherborne branch of the family. Graduated at Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1523. [Aged 74 at his death in 1581.]
  
  1527. Death of Laurence Dutton, of Dutton, without male heir,
  by which the Dutton property passed to sir Piers Dutton of
  Hatton, whose right was contested by the heirs-general of Sir Hugh Dutton.
  
  1533. [Dec. 14] The abbot, prior and monks of Winchcombe
  abbey, in Gloustershire, leased the manor of Sherborne in that
  county to sir John Alleyn, knight, for ninety-nine years at a
  peppercorn rent, while secretely receiving a large sum of money for the same, in view of the approaching dissolution of monasteries. [Original lease signed by the abbot, prior and twenty three monks at Sherborne house.]
  
  1534. Termination of the Dutton lawsuit, by award of HenryVIII
  [May 16], by which sir Piers Dutton of Hatton became owner of Dutton, confirmed by Act of Parliament in 1536.
  
  1536. Suppression of monasteries. Sir Piers Dutton appointed
  one of the commissioners for the abbey of Vale Royal. Quelled
  an insurrection at Norton abbey and arrested the prior and
  cannons. Thanked by Henry VIII.
  
  1539. Sir Piers Dutton and dame Julian, his second wife,
  commenced the new hall at Dutton. Completed in 1542.
  
  1545. Death of sir Piers Dutton, of Hatton and Dutton,[Aug.17].
  
  1551. Thomas Dutton acquired the manor of Sherborne, in
  Gloustershire, from sir Christopher Alleyn, having previously
  been established there.
  
  1567. Richard Dutton, Mayor of Chester. “He kept house at' the White Friars, and in all the twelve days of Christmas kept open
  house for meat and drink at meal-time for any that came. All
  the Christmas-time there was a lord of misrule’' [MS, Mayors of
  Chester].
  
  1571-74. John Bruen, afterwards the noted puritan layman,
  brought up at his uncle Dutton’s at Dutton, “where by occasion
  of musicians and a chest of viols kept in the house, he was
  drawn by desire and delight into the dancing-school, where he
  profited so well in that kind of youthful activity that he did not only please himself too much, but his parents also more than
  was meet with those tricks of vanity” [John Bruen’s Life].
  
  1572. Sir Christopher Hatton, Queen Elizabeth’s dancing lord chancellor, claimed kindred with the Duttons of Hatton.
  
  1574. Queen Elizabeth entertained by Thomas Dutton for six
  days at Sherborne.
  
  1574. Richard Dutton, mayor of Chester, in conflict with the
  lords of the council respecting the city charter.
  
  1581. Thomas Dutton died at Sherborne [Oct. 24], aged 74. In
  his will he desired the “arms of the house of Dutton in
  Cheshire, out of which house I came and descended,” be placed
  over his tomb.
  
  1588. Approach of the Armada. John Dutton and Rowland
  Dutton, of Chester, esqs.; and William Dutton, of Sherborne,
  esq., each subscribed 25 pounds for the defense of the country.
  
  1592. Queen Elizabeth entertained by William Dutton for six
  days at Sherborne [Sept.].
  
  1593. Death of Peter Dutton, eldest son of John Dutton of
  Dutton [May 30]. In 1583, on his return from his travels, sir
  Christopher Hatton wrote of him that the Queen was assured
  he would prove “a man meet to be hereafter employed in
  service to the benefit of his country.”
  
  1594. Birth of John Dutton [son of William Dutton], who
  eventually succeeded to Sherborne. Born hunchbacked; known
  as “Crump Dutton.” Became one of the richest men in England.” Rebuilt Sherborne house from designs by sir Inigo Jones.
  Erected by the brothers Strong.
  
  1603. [Sir] Thomas Dutton, of Chester, knighted by James I.
  Became a captain in the low countries. In 1606, lord Salisbury wrote in favor of him that he “is well-esteemed of by his Majesty.” The earl of Suffolk and lord chancellor Ellesmere were amongst his friends at court. Temporarily lost royal favor by killing sir Hatton Cheke in a duel in 1610.
  
  1608-9. John Dutton, the sole male heir-apparent of Dutton,
  killed [according to tradition] on his wedding-day [Feb. 9].
  Buried at Tarvin in Cheshire, February 11, 1608-9, aged
  fourteen.
  
  1610. Duel between sir Hatton Cheke and sir Thomas Dutton fought on Calais sands, in which sir Hatton Cheke was killed
  [Dec.].