[5] At the time of the Domesday Book he held 43 manors in Bedfordshire and additional landholdings in Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire.
[6] The core of Hugh's lands were those held before the Conquest by Eskil of Ware and men sworn to Eskil, with additional lands coming from thegns and sokemen in the county.
[9] Frank Barlow also assigns that office to Hugh in the early part of the reign of King William II.
[6] Hugh in March 1101 was also a surety for Henry in a treaty between the new king and Robert II, Count of Flanders.
She was probably the daughter and heiress of Ralf Tallebosc (or Ralph Taillebois), who was sheriff of Buckinghamshire before Hugh.