Nichola de la Haye

  Information about this person:

• Background Information. ⁹⁷²
Robert de la Haye was likely living in 1131 and 1135. Robert was a Norman with estates in Normandy. Richard was the son of Robert. Richard's maternal uncle was named Picot and his maternal grandfather was Colswein. Both Picot and Colswein were native to England, and their families lived there before the conquest.

Richard died in during the life of Henry II, and left three daughter and co-heiress. His Norman estates passed to his two youngest daughters, with he English inheritance going to his eldest daughter Nocholaa, who was married to Gerard de Camville. Henry II died in July 1189, and before his successor, Richard was crowned king, Nicholaa and Gerard obtained a charter from Richard confirming their inheritance, which included the constableship of Lincoln Castle, which was held by Nichollaa's father Richard and her grandfather Robert.

Gerard de Camville died before 15 Jan 1215, and his son by Nicholaa, Richard de Camville, died soon after Feb 1217. Nicholaa had charge of the castle in 12226, and died sometime shortly before 20 Nov 1230. [Farrer, Honors & Knight's Fees, II, 221]

Richard, son of Nicholaa de la Haye and Gerard de Camvile married Eustachia, daughter and heiress of Gilbert Basset, and had by her a daughter Idonea, who married William Longespee, son of William Longespess, earl of Salisbury. Idonea and William had a granddaughter, Margaret Longespee, who brought the contableship of Lincoln Castle to the earldom of Lincoln by her marriage to Earl Henry de Lacy.

~ Medieval Lincoln, pp. 87-89

• Background Information. ⁵⁸¹
Richard de Camville held 1 knight's fee in Oxfordshire in 1166, of which Godington no doubt formed part, for Richard and his brother Roger granted lands in Godington to Missenden Abbey (Bucks.) about that time. Richard died in 1176.

Richard's eldest son Gerard married Nichole, daughter and heiress of Richard de la Hay, hereditary Sheriff of Lincolnshire and Constable of Lincoln castle, and held these offices in his wife's right. Gerard supported Count John against King Richard and so lost his lands, and in 1194 had to pay 2,000 marks for their recovery.

Gerard died about the end of 1214, leaving his son Richard, the husband of a daughter of Gilbert Basset, as his heir. Unlike his mother Nichole, Richard seems to have sided with the barons in the civil war, and suffered for his opposition. He recovered some of his confiscated manors early in 1217, but died a few years later.

Richard's heir was his daughter Idoine, and the right to arrange for her marriage had been given to William Longespée, Earl of Salisbury, in 1216.

~A History of the County of Oxford, Vol. VI, pp. 146-152

Nichola married Gerald de Camville, son of Richard de Camville Lord of Stanton and Milicent de Rethel, after 1178.⁹⁷² (Gerald de Camville was born about 1148 and died before 15 Jan 1215 in Lincoln Castle, Lincolnshire, England ⁹⁷².)