Individual

Go to List of Family Names Go to List of People    < Previous Next >

Birth:          ABT 1232 of Whorlton in Cleveland, Yorkshire, England
Death:          Feb 1299 
Burial:         6 Feb 1299 

Notes
d BEF 27 May 1299
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I10570
BARONY OF MEINILL (I) 1295

NICHOLAS DE MEINILL, of Whorlton, co. York, apparently 2nd but 1st surviving son 
and heir. On 12 September 1257 confirmation was given to a lease for 20 years made 
to him, as son and heir of Stephen de Meinill, by John de Nevill of the manor of 
Pykehale (Pickhill), co. York. In 1268 he was a surety for Sir Walter de Fauconberg 
for his fine for the ransom of his lands. On 16 July 1269, having succeeded his father, 
he had a grant of free warren in his demesne lands in Wherlueton [Whorlton), Grenhou 
(Greenhow, parish of Ingleby Greenhow), Semere (Seamer in Cleveland), and Eston, 
and a weekly market and a yearly fair in his manor of Whorlton. At some time previous 
to 1275 he endeavoured to pass off on his ward Robert Guer or le Gower an 
illegitimate daughter of John de Stoteville his uncle. In 1275 it was complained that he 
had not allowed the wapentake pleas of Langbaurgh to be held in his lands, and had 
ploughed up a common way leading from the vill of Trenholme to the church of 
Whorlton. In 1276 he acknowledged that he owed 20 marks to John Mohaut (de 
Monte Alto), to be levied in default of payment from his lands in co. York; and in 1278 
he was pardoned by the King a debt of 100 marks due to Juette daughter of Bennet, a 
Jewess of York. In 1277 he was summoned for military service against Llewelyn, 
prince of Wales, and against the Welsh and Scots on various occasions from 1282 to 
1299, and for service in Gascony in 1294 and 1295. In 1279 he was returned as 
having held of Piers de Mauley the Second a knight's fee in Greenhow, Tunstall, and 
Great Ayton. On 9 February 1280/1 he had licence to hunt the fox and hare with his 
own hounds in the woods of Aldwark within the forest of Galtres. In 1282, as lord of 
Whorlton, he confirmed to Guisborough Priory all the lands which the Prior and 
convent held within his -fees of Cleveland. He was summoned to attend the King at 
Shrewsbury 28 June 1283. In 1285 he had a grant of free warren in his demesne lands 
in Castle Leavington, a manor which had been granted to him and Christine his wife 
and his heirs by the King for good service earlier in the same year. In the same year 
he was in possession of the manor of Tanton (parish of Stokesley), which had been 
alienated to him by William de Mowbray. He was summoned to appear with horses and 
arms at a military council at Gloucester before Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, in 1287; and 
to attend the King on urgent affairs 8 June 1294. In 1290 he was pardoned for an 
amercement of 100 shillings for a default before the justices for forest pleas in co. 
York. He was summoned to Parliament from 24 June 1295 to 6 February 1298/9, by 
writs directed Nicholao de Meynil, Meinill or Meignil, whereby he is held to have 
become LORD MEINILL.

He married Christine (k). He died before 27 May 1299. On 21 July the escheator was 
ordered to deliver to Christine his widow the manor of Castle Leavington. The King 
granted her marriage, 13 September, to Saer de Huntingfield, and on 16 November, 
with the heir's consent, she was assigned as dower the manor of Eston and lands in 
Potto (parish of Whorlton). In 1310, as widow of Nicholas de Meinill of Whorlton, she 
was granted by the Archbishop of York the marriage of Richard, son and heir of Sir 
Robert de Furneaux. She was dead before 22 January 1311/2. [Complete Peerage 
VIII:625-7, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]

(k) Charges of attempting to poison her husband and of adultery with Masters William 
de Greenfield (later Archbishop of York) and Walter de Hamerton were made against 
her. Of these she purged herself before Archbishop Romeyn on 7 Dec 1290. The 
matter appears to have been referred to Rome, as on 9 Dec she appointed Master Guy 
de Novaria as her proctor at the Roman court. From the proceedings in the case 
between her and her husband in the ecclesiastical court it appeared, as Archbishop 
Romeyn wrote to the King on 29 Jan 1292/3, that although it had been said she had 
deserted her husband and was leading a sinful life, actually he had driven her from his 
home and refused to maintain her, that she was leading a moral life, and that his 
cruelty and not her fault had been the cause of separation.

Parents
DE MEINILL Stephen (AFT Oct 1203 - BEF 16 Jul 1269)
----- ----- ()

Siblings
DE MEINILL Nicholas (ABT 1232 - Feb 1299)

Marriage To ____ Christine (ABT 1252 - BEF 22 Jan 1312)
    m.  

Notes


Children by ____ Christine ABT 1252 - BEF 22 Jan 1312
DE MEINILL Nicholas (6 Dec 1274 - 26 Apr 1322)

Produced by Fzip 1.7 6/20/2017