Hugh de Paduinan

Biography

Sir Hugh was born in 1140 of Anglo-Norman ancestry. He is believed to have married a Scottish lord's daughter, and his heir was his son Reginald. He was a follower of Sir Walter Fitzalan.

During the reign of Malcolm IV of Scotland Sir Hugh was granted the lands of Kilpeter, around the modern parish of Houston and Killellan in the west-central Lowlands of Scotland county of Renfrewshire, by Baldwin of Biggar, the Sheriff of Lanark. Baldwin may have been Sir Hugh's father in law. He established the Templar Chapel on the site of Chapel Farm just outside the village of Houston. His descendants remained the Lairds of Houston until 1740, where the lands were sold to Alexander Speirs of Elderslie, a Glasgow tobacco lord. The main village in the area now bears the name Houston.

Both Sir Hugh and his descendants often arise as signatories of deeds, particularly pertaining to Scottish churches. Sir Hugh died in 1189 in the Holy Land, possibly amongst the Templars who were killed at the Battle of Hattin.

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5. "Descriptions of the Sheriffdoms of Lanark and Renfrew", William Hamilton , pp. 99–100