Hugh served William fitzEmpress, the brother of King Henry II of England from the mid 1150s.
[4] After William's death in 1164, Hugh passed into royal service,[3] while also serving as seneschal to the new Earl of Surrey, Hamelin,[4] the illegitimate half-brother of King Henry II.
[1] In 1167 Hugh paid a fine that is recorded in the pipe rolls for the custody of his nephew's lands at Tickhill.
[4] Also in 1176, Henry II summoned Roger as a Serjeant-at-law, one of the first identifiable members of that order in the historical record.
[4] Hugh married Margaret,[1] one of the daughters and heiresses of William de Chesney, the founder of Sibton Abbey.
[15] Towards the end of his life, sometime between 1186 and 1189, Hugh gave a church at Cressy to the priory at St Lo in Rouen.
[4] Margaret survived Hugh and married Robert fitzRoger and lived until at least 1214, when she paid a fine to the king for the right to her inheritance after the death of her second husband.