Hugh de Montaut, or Monte Alto, Montalt, Monhaut, or FitzNorman (ca. 1050 – 1130), was an English nobleman and Baron under

Hugh Lupus Hugh d'Avranches ( 1047 – 27 July 1101), nicknamed ''le Gros'' (the Large) or ''Lupus'' (the Wolf), was from 1071 the second Norman Earl of Chester and one of the great magnates of early Norman England. Early life and career Hugh d'Avra ...

during the early years of the reign of

William the Conqueror William I; ang, WillelmI (Bates ''William the Conqueror'' p. 33– 9 September 1087), usually known as William the Conqueror and sometimes William the Bastard, was the first House of Normandy, Norman List of English monarchs#House of Norman ...

Biography

Hugh was born in the mid 11th century, probably in Cheshire or Normandy. His father was

Eustace de Montaut Eustace de Montaut, or Monte Alto, Montalt, Monhaut, or FitzNorman ( 1027 – 1112), was a Breton people, Breton soldier, and later baron, who fought on the side of the Normans during the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 and for his achievement ...

, who arrived in

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at the time of the

Battle of Hastings The Battle of Hastings nrf, Batâle dé Hastings was fought on 14 October 1066 between the Norman-French army of William the Conqueror, William, the Duke of Normandy, and an English army under the Anglo-Saxons, Anglo-Saxon King Harold Godw ...

or shortly after, under the "Palatine Earl of Chester, the potent Hugh Lupus", under whom Hugh would later serve as a Steward and a Baron. Hugh is known for giving a large part of his possessions to monks: granting the lands of Gosetce and Lantrene to the monks of the Abbey of Chester. The name of Hugh's wife is now unknown, but she may have been a Suffolk heiress, and by about 1075 they had at least one son, named William. The names of any other children have not survived. Both Hugh and his wife were deceased by 1130, and Hugh was succeeded in his estates by his brother Roger, which suggests that Hugh's son predeceased him.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Montaut, Hugh De 1130 deaths Anglo-Normans 1050s births English people of Breton descent