William Fitz Nigel Baron of Halton

  General Notes:

~The Register Book of Inglebye, Pedigree taken from Foster's Pedigrees, pg. VI, William fitz Nigell, baron of Halton, died 1134. ⁷⁹⁷

~The Aristocracy of Norman England, pp. 75, 216, William Fitz Nigel, Lord of Oswestry, at Chester, held lands to the west and east of the river Mersey, with castles at Halton and Widnes. ¹⁹⁰

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ⁷²⁶
William Fitz Nigell, Baron of Halton, constable of Chester, Lord of Flamborough, founder of the Abbey of Norton, and who died in 1153. He married the daughter and con-heir of Yarfrid, Baron of Widness.

~Fenwick Allied Ancestry, pg. 37

• Background Information. ¹¹²⁷
William Fitz Nigel, son of Nigel and grandson of Ivo, Viscount of Cotentin, was Constable of Chester and Lord of Flamborough and died in 1153. His daughter, Agnes, married, Eustace Fitz John, son of John Monoculus, Lord of Knaresborough. Their son, Richard Fitz Eustace, married Albreda de Lizours, the daughter and heiress of Robert de Lizours by Albreda, sister and heiress of the last Robert de Lacy, Lord of Ponterfract.

~Transactions of the East Riding Antiquarian Society, Vol. VIII, p.15

• Background Information. ⁸⁵²
William Fitz Nigel or Fitz Neale, is named among the commissioners appointed in 1170 to examine into abuses of the sheriffs, &c., whom Dugdale erronesously calls justices itinerant. he was sheriff of King in 1184, 30 Henry II, and in the certificate returned by the Bishop of Chinchester for the aid on marrying the king's daughter in 12 Henry II, 1166, he mentioned William Fitz Neale as holding one knight's fee under that church.

~Biographia juridica, p. 263-264

• Background Information. ⁷¹³
William, son of Nigell, was the second baron of Halton and constable of Cheshire. In the Doomsday book of 1086, William is shown holding towns in Cheshiire under Hygh earl of Chester. William Fitz-NIgell founded a priory at Tuncorne in 1133 (33 Hen. I). William died at the end of Henry I's reign in 1133 and was buried in Chester. He had issue William, constable, Agnes, married to Eustace Fitz John, a great baron of the realm; and Maud, married to Aubert de Greeley.

~Ormerod's History of Cheshire, Vol. I, pp. 690-691

William married Adeliza de Gand, daughter of Gilbert de Gaunt 1st Earl of Lincoln and Alicia de Montfort ^713,726.^,797