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• Name: Richard Fitz NIGEL
• Sex: M
• Death: Abt 1133 ^d


Parents:

• Father:
  
• Nigell De HALTON, Constable Of Chester

Family:
Marriage:

• Letitia .^m1
  
• Letitia

Children:

1. Robert Fitz RICHARD
2. Gilbert De MALPAS Death: Abt 1182
3. Ralph De ANNESLEY
4. William De HOUTON
5. Gervaise De BARNSTON
6. Agnes Fitz RICHARD

Bibliography

Sources for birth and parent Information

brother:

William Fitz Nigel [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p928]

William Fitz Nigel, Constable of Chester [Ref: Paul Reed SGM 7/8/1998-B]

Sources for death Information

date:

abt 1133 [Ref: StNeel SGM 7/6/1998]

Sources with Information about marriage to Letitia

child:

[Ref: StNeel SGM 7/6/1998]

Research Notes:
abt 1100: Chester tenant [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p928]

possibly the Richard fitz Nigel who held land at Tackley, Bletchingdon and Iffley under the earl of Chester [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p929]

Statham: no documents exist that show Richard mentioned as a St Sauveur, or in French records; only as brother of William in Chester. So his connection to St Sauveur hinges on Williams. Many documents show two William St Sauveurs, sons of Nigel (not in doubt). No Cheshire document calls William Fitz Nigel, the constable, a St Saveur. No French document calls William de St Sauveur Constable of Chester [Ref: Paul Reed SGM 7/8/1998-B]

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]



Pedigree of Richard Fitz NIGEL
 /-----Nigell De HALTON, Constable Of Chester
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