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Name: Nicholas De GRESLEI
Sex: M

Parents:

Father:
Nigel De STAFFORD Death: Before 1130

Mother:

Matilda De LIMESY

Family:
Marriage:

Eva on 1 .^m1
Eva

Children:

(Unk) De GRESELEIA

Marriage:

Margaret De LANGFORD on Before 1129 .^m2
Margaret De LANGFORD

Children:

Bibliography

Keats-Rohan, K.S.B., Domesday Descendants, A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166. Vol II: Pipe Rolls to Cartae Baronum. Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 2002. NYPL ARF 03-4178 vol 2. Corrections at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~prosop/domesday-descendants-corrigenda.pdf Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p[0-9]*].
Keats-Rohan, K.S.B., Domesday People, A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066-1166. Vol I: Domesday Book. Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk: Boydell Press, 1999. NYPL ARF 03-4178 vol 1. Corrections in Volume II (Domesday Descendants) pp 4-5. Further corrections at http://users.ox.ac.uk/~prosop/domesday-people-corrigenda.pdf Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p[0-9]*].
Madan, Falconer, The Gresleys of Drakelowe: An Account of the Family, and Notes of its connexions by Marriage and Descent from the Norman Conquest, Oxford: author, 1899. Available at https://archive.org/details/The_Gresleys_of_Drakelowe. Partially (mainly illustrations) at https://archive.org/details/gri_33125007789320. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Madan Gresleys p[0-9]*].

Sources for birth and parent Information

father:: [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p487, Keats-Rohan DP p302, Madan Gresleys p223, Madan Gresleys p279],
brother:: William of Greasley [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p487]

Sources with Information about marriage to Eva

date:: first marriage of Nicholas [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p487],
names:: [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p301, Keats-Rohan DP p302]; Nicholas fitz Nigel of Stafford & sister of Abbot Geoffrey of Burton [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p312, Keats-Rohan DD p487],
child:: [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p312, Keats-Rohan DD p487]

Sources with Information about marriage to Margaret De LANGFORD

date:: before 1120s, as second marriage of Nicholas [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p487]; before abt 1122-29 [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p302],
child:: [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p487, Madan Gresleys p279]

Research Notes:
one-time ward of Geoffrey de Clinton [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p487]

1086: occurs in the Staffordshire Domesday in a context suggesting he was then sheriff [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p300]

named in precepts of Henry I concerning a dispute with the abbot of Burton over the manor of Coton-in-the-Elms; according to the Burton Cartulary, Abbot Geoffrey was deposed in 1094 for his alienation of Coton which he gave to Nicholas in marriage with his sister Eda of Eva [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p487]

1101-23: Sheriff of Staffordshire [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p487]

abt 1109: successor as sheriff was Robert de Piro [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p301]

abt 1125/30: founded a cell of Geoffrey de Clinton's foundation, Kenilworth Abbey, at Calwich [Ref: Keats-Rohan DD p487]

c1122-9: benefactor of Kenilworth [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p302]

ancestor of Stephen be Bellocampo, but he cannot have been his father; the relationship was probably through females [Ref: Keats-Rohan DP p301]

Pedigree of Nicholas De GRESLEI
/-----Nigel De STAFFORD
Nicholas De GRESLEI
| /-----Ralph De LIMESY, Baron Of Cavendish
\-----Matilda De LIMESY
\-----(Unk)

Descendants of Nicholas De GRESLEI

1. Nicholas De GRESLEI m1. Eva m2. Margaret De LANGFORD

m. Eva father: (Unk)

2+ (Unk) De GRESELEIA m. Richard De BEAUCHAMP

m. Margaret De LANGFORD

3 Simon De GRESLEI

4+ Nigel De BABINTON m. Cecilia De HATHERSEDGE

5 William De GRESLEI

6 Felicia De GRESLEI m. Rogerus DUREDENT

2nd generation

2. (Unk) De GRESELEIA m. Richard De BEAUCHAMP

m. Richard De BEAUCHAMP

7+ Stephen De BEAUCHAMP m. Isilia De FERRERS