Hugh first appears in the historical record around 1067 when he was the witness to a charter of Gerold de Roumara.
[1] Hugh's tenure of the estate at Cottingham in Yorkshire is considered to mean that he was a feudal baron.
[2] One of Hugh's holdings included the village of Bossall in the hundred of Bulford (now in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire).
[4][5] It is possible that the Hugh fitz Baldric who witnessed a charter of Robert Curthose's in 1089 is the same person as the former sheriff.
[1] The Domesday Book records that Walter de Rivere and Guy of Croan were sons-in-law of Hugh.