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Project status: individual pre-1500 documentary subject; architecture reviewed 29 August 2026. This is a free-space research page, not a WikiTree person profile.
Biography
Hugh de Glasgw witnessed a lay quitclaim concerning three perticates of land in Glasgow's Rottenrow. The act is assigned to about 1283 rather than internally dated.[1]
The same 1283 property dossier separately identifies Alexander, son of the late Richard the messenger of Glasgow and Alexander, son of Richard the former constable of Glasgow.[2] They are associated people in a compact burgage network, not proved relatives of Hugh or proved hereditary Glasgow bearers.
Because the instrument already identifies Glasgow as the venue yet still distinguishes Hugh personally as `de Glasgw`, the phrase has strong personal-byname function. The source does not call him a burgess, landholder, neighbour or officeholder.
Research Notes
The text survives through the later Paisley cartulary, not an autograph thirteenth-century instrument. No family relationship to another bearer is stated. Hugh's deed also identifies Peter de Castro as son of the deceased Alexander de Castro; that relationship belongs to the de Castro family and supplies no parentage for Hugh or either Alexander son of Richard.
Sources
Source references
- Registrum Monasterii de Passelet, no. 341; DEEDS 06190339.
- Registrum Monasterii de Passelet, pp. 383–385; DEEDS 06190338 and DEEDS 06190340.
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