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• Name: Nigel II Of Cotentin, Vicount Of St Sauveur
• Sex: M


Parents:

• Father:
  
• Nigel I Death: Before 1103

Family:
Marriage:

• Adela .^m1
  
• Adela

Children:

1. Niel Of Cotentin Death: Abt 1100
2. Roger Of Cotentin
3. William Of Cotentin
4. Emma Of Cotentin
5. Billehildis Of Cotentin
6. Matilda Of Cotentin

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

father:

[Ref: Keats-Rohan Poppa p189]

Sources with Information about marriage to Adela

names:

[Ref: Keats-Rohan Poppa p187],

child:

[Ref: Keats-Rohan Poppa p189, Keats-Rohan RobertTorigny p25, Keats-Rohan RobertTorigny p26]

Research Notes:
Vicount of Saint-Sauveur [Ref: Keats-Rohan Poppa p187]

Statham [Rev. Statham's _The Descent of the family of Statham_ (London, 1925)]
refers to a document printed in J. Horace Round's Calendar of Documents Preserved in France, no. 1166, which he says "is a charter of Nigel IV himself, dated about 1060, in which he confirms the gift of six churches in Guernsey by his lord William, count of the Normans, free from any claim on the part of him or his, to S. Martin, Marmoutier, and its monks. His wife Adela and their sons Roger, William, another William and Girard, with their sisters Emma, Bilelde and Mahildis consenting to his grant." [Ref: Paul Reed SGM 7/8/1998-A]

So at this point I believe Tait was definitely right. Nigel, father of William and Richard, of Cheshire, cannot be the Nigel de St. Sauveur to whom they are attributed. [Ref: Paul Reed SGM 7/8/1998-A]

Tait: "It is noteworthy that no attempt is made in the _Progenies_ to identify the Norman family of Nigel [father of William Fitz Nigel, Constable of Chester]. 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 names 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]



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