Family:
Children:
- William FITZ NIGEL, Constable Of Chester Death: Before 1130
- Richard Fitz NIGEL Death: Abt 1133
Bibliography
Sources with Information about marriage to unknown
- child:
- [Ref: John Ravilious SGM 1/14/2008-164418, Watney WALLOP #738]
Research Notes:
made Constable of Chester by Hugh 'Lupus,' Earl of Chester [Ref: Watney WALLOP
#738]
Tait discusses the genealogical account [in][Dugdale's Monasticon Anglianum
vi. 315 and Ormerod i, 689-90]. ... He states that "Neel(Latinized Nigellus"
"seems to be entirely absent from contemporary record." The account of the
predecessors of those who made the donations for the foundations of the
abbeys, etc., is referred to as the priory _Progenies_. The account of the
father of Wililam FitzNigel was that Neel "is said to have come to England
with earl Hugh of Chester accompanied by five brothers: Hudardus, Edwardus,
Wolmerus, Horswinus and Wolftatus." The earl made Nigel constable and
established him at Halton. Then Tait emphasizes:
"The untrustworthiness of these monastic pedigrees in their early steps is
notrious and though Hudard, more correctly Odard, was a historical person, a
knight of the constable and ancestor of the Dutton family, there is no
evidence that he was uncle of William FitzNigel and THE OTHER NAMES in
themselves REFUTE THE STORY for they are English not Norman and apparently
imaginary [emphasis mine]." [Ref: Paul Reed SGM 7/8/1998-B]
"It is noteworthy that no attempt is made in the _Progenies_ to identify the
Norman family of Nigel. It was not until the sixteenth century that
unscrupulous heralds linked him up with the vicomtes of the Cotentin whose
seat was at Sait-Sauveur near Valognes.... Nigel is there said to have been
son of Ivo, viscount of Cotentin, by a sister of a (misnamed) count of
Brittany.... [T]here was no vicomte of the Cotentin named Ivo in the eleventh
century, there were actually two Neels, the younger of whom held the office
from 1042 to 1092. He was, of course, hailed as the father of William
fitzNigel and as the first baron of Halton and constable of Chester. But as
the great French scholar, Leopold Delisle, pointed out in 1867, there is no
evidence, other than Wace's "Romman de Rou" and a list of the followers of the
Conqueror drawn up to exalt the Mohuns of Dunster Castle, that Nigel the
vicomte took part in the Conquest of England. Had he been the first baron of
Halton and constable of Chester, as the Cheshire historians have assumed, he
would have held these positions in 1086 when Domesday Book was drawn up, for
he lived six years longer, but William fitzNigel held both at that date."
[Ref: Paul Reed SGM 7/8/1998-B]
Pedigree of Nigell De HALTON, Constable Of Chester
Nigell De HALTON, Constable Of Chester
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