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Birth:          6 Dec 1274 Whorlton, Yorkshire, England
Death:          26 Apr 1322 
Burial:         24 May 1322 

Notes
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I10566
Nicholas de Meinill, b. 6 Dec 1274, 2nd Lord Meinill of Whorlton, son of Nicholas de 
Meinill and Christina. [Ancestral Roots]

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BARONY OF MEINILL (II) 1299

NICHOLAS DE MEINILL, LORD MEINILL, son and heir, born 6 December 1274. Before 
21 July 1299 he did homage for his father's lands. The rights of the Archbishop of 
Canterbury were secured by letters patent issued on 1 April 1300. On 14 January 
1299/1300 he was among the knights of the North Riding who were summoned to be 
at the exchequer at York to treat with the treasurer and others of the King's council. 
He was summoned for military service against the Scots in 1300, and in various years 
up to 1322, and to Parliament from 8 January 1312/3 to 14 March 1321/2, being in 
1318 addressed as one of the Majores Barones. His seal is appended to the Barons' 
letter to the Pope, 12 February 1300/1. In 1301 it was found that he and others had 
not disseised the Abbot of Fountains of land in Whorlton. On 6 July 1311 he had 
licence to grant the reversion of the manor of Castle Leavington after the death of 
Christine, late the wife of his father, to John de Meinill and the heirs of his body. On 3 
June 1312 he had licence to fell 200 oaks in his wood of Aldwark, forest of Galtres, 
and to sell them. In 1314 he was appointed custos of the peace in Cleveland, 
Blackhow-moor, and the wapentakes of Bulmer, Rydale and Birdforth, and in 1316 to a 
commission of array in the East and North Ridings. In 1314 he settled a great part of 
his property on Nicholas, his illegitimate son by Lucy, daughter and heir of Robert de 
Thweng, of Kilton, elder brother of Marmaduke, 1st Lord Thweng. In December of the 
same year the Archbishop of York issued a mandate ordering certain clergy, whom 
Nicholas de Meinill had summoned to meet him with horses and arms to start for the 
Scottish Marches, to neglect the summons, regarding it as a breach of ecclesiastical 
liberty and in April of the following year the Archbishop summoned him with fifty other 
knights to attend a council of war at Doncaster to provide for the safety of the North 
against the Scots. On 24 May 1315 he was appointed sheriff of co. York, but was 
superseded on 20 October. In 1315 he bought the reversion of a moiety of the manors 
of Wooler, Hethpool Heatherslaw, Lowick, and Belford Northumberland, on the death 
of Mary (widow of Nicholas de Graham) to hold to him and the heirs of his body, and 
failing such issue to Nicholas son of Lucy daughter of Robert de Thweng and the 
heirs of his body, with remainder to his own right heirs. In 1316 he surrendered the 
manor of Great Broughton to Rievaulx Abbey. In 131? he was commissioned to raise 
his men and tenants in co. York for the King's expedition against the Scots. In 1319 
he complained that Robert de Colville had enclosed a wood bordering on his chace at 
Whorlton, and had made a salt-leap into which his own deer entered and did not 
return. In 1320-21 John son of William de Rosels conveyed the manor of Aislaby to 
him for life, with remainder to Nicholas his son by Lucy de Thweng. In 1321 he was 
ordered to abstain from attending the meeting of the "Good Peers" convened by 
Thomas, Earl of Lancaster; and in 1322 to raise men-at-arms and foot soldiers and be 
ready to march with them to the King. He died 26 April 1322, apparently unmarried. 
[Complete Peerage VIII:627-30, XIV:472, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

Parents
DE MEINILL Nicholas (ABT 1232 - Feb 1299)
____ Christine (ABT 1252 - BEF 22 Jan 1312)

Siblings
DE MEINILL Nicholas (6 Dec 1274 - 26 Apr 1322)

Marriage To DE THWENG Lucy (24 Mar 1279 - 8 Jan 1347)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
DE THWENG Robert (1255 - BEF 1284)
HANSARD Maud (Matilda) (ABT 1258 - AFT 1284)

Children by DE THWENG Lucy 24 Mar 1279 - 8 Jan 1347
DE MEINILL Nicholas (ABT 1303 - BEF 20 Nov 1341)

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