Volume 13 , Issue 18

History of Luttrell Surnames

Sir Geoffrey Luttrel received several grants of land from his royal patron, but the real foundation of the future wealth of the Luttrell family was laid by his marriage with Frethesant, daughter and co-heiress of William Paganel. Although Lady Frethesant only belonged to a younger branch of the Paganel family, she received as her inheritance from him, seven knights' fees and a half, in the counties of York, Nottingham, and Lincoln.

Sir Geoffrey Luttrell appears to have died on his journey to Rome in 1216, leaving a widow and a son named Andrew. The widow married a second husband, Henry de Newmarch, Lord of Bentley, and the custody the heir was granted to Philip Marc, a manor some importance in the midland counties, who had been one of the confidential advisers of King John.

The young Andrew Luttrell was made to marry a daughter of his guardian, pertonilla by name. He had livery of seisin in 1229, when he succeeded not only to the estates of his father and mother, but also to the whole inheritance of his grandfather William Paganel, whose second daughter isabella had diddled without issue. A few months later, he unexpectedly received a considerable accession of property on the death of his third cousin, Maurice de Gaunt, the heir of the elder branch of the Paganel family.

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