Nicholas de Moels

• Preferred Name: Nicholas de Moels^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• investigated+complaint+: 22 JAN 1251 in Gascogne, France at LATI: N3.977 LONG: E0.176 with note: Description: against Simon de Montfort "Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 38, Moels, Nicholas de," by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford "on the complaint of the Gascons against Simon de Montfort, he was despatched with Drogo de Barentin to investigate the truth of the charges; the general tenor of their report was favourable to the earl"
  
• Occupation: Sheriff and customsBET 1228 AND 1232 in Hampshire, England at LATI: N1.0786 LONG: E1.317 with note: "Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 38, Moels, Nicholas de," by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford
  
• Birth: ABT 1195
  
• conservator+of+the+truce: JUN 1252 in Gascogne, France at LATI: N3.977 LONG: E0.176 with note: Description: with Rocelin de Fos "Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 38, Moels, Nicholas de," by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford. edited
  
• Occupation: Sheriff of Hampshire and custos of Winchester CastleBET 1228 AND 1232
  
• MilitaryService: engaged in the Welsh war1257 with note: "Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 38, Moels, Nicholas de," by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford
  
• messenger: AUG 1226 with note: Description: to Earl Richard, in Poitou "Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 38, Moels, Nicholas de," by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford "despatched as messenger to the king's brother, Earl Richard, in Poitou"
  
• Residence: in Watlington, Henley, Oxfordshire, England at LATI: N1.6451 LONG: E1.0103 with note: Location prior to standardizing
  
• Death: BET 1264 AND 1271
  
• http://familysearch.org/v1/TitleOfNobility: Sir
  
• royal+service: MAR 1217 with note: "Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 38, Moels, Nicholas de," by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford
  
• Occupation: Seneschal of Gascony with note: "Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 38, Moels, Nicholas de," by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford
  
• MilitaryService: siege of GramontAUG 1243 in Gramont, Côtes-d'Armor, Brittany, France at LATI: N8.4283 LONG: E2.0079 with note: "Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 38, Moels, Nicholas de," by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford "seneschal of Gascony"
  
• royal+service: SEP 1215 with note: "Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 38, Moels, Nicholas de," by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford "first mentioned as being in the royal service
  
• Residence: ABT 1195 in Cadbury Manor, Cadbury, Somerset, England at LATI: N1.1197 LONG: E2.9 with note: Actual research location Cadbury Manor, Cadbury, Somerset, England Prior to standardizing
  
• MilitaryService: defeated King Thibaut of Navarreautumn 1244 with note: "Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 38, Moels, Nicholas de," by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford
  
• FSID: LVKZ-N2K
  
• Occupation: guardian of the bishopric1241 in Durham, England at LATI: N4.7643 LONG: E1.571 with note: "Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 38, Moels, Nicholas de," by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford "during a vacancy"
  
• LdsEndowment: 3 FEB 1966 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Occupation: Seneschal of Gasconyabout midsummer 1243 in Gascogne, France at LATI: N3.977 LONG: E0.176 with note: "Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 38, Moels, Nicholas de," by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford "King Henry appointed him"
  
• LdsBaptism: 23 NOV 1965 with note: GEDCOM data
  
• Occupation: had charge of of Corfe Castle1263 with note: "Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 38, Moels, Nicholas de," by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford
  
• royal+service: JAN 1224 with note: Description: aboard "Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 38, Moels, Nicholas de," by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford "said to have been going abroad on the royal service"
  
• Occupation: Sheriff of YorkshireBET 1239 AND 1241 with note: "Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 38, Moels, Nicholas de," by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford
  
• king's+mission: MAY 1230 with note: Description: to Queen Isabella "Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 38, Moels, Nicholas de," by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford "he was with the king in Brittany, and was sent by him on a mission to Hugh, count of Marche, and his wife, Queen Isabella, the king's mother
  
• Occupation: governor of castlesmid-to-late 1245 in Wales at LATI: N2.3302 LONG: E3.7664 with note: "Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 38, Moels, Nicholas de," by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford "Cardigan and Caermarthen castles"
  
• Gascony: MAR 1227 in Gascogne, France at LATI: N3.977 LONG: E0.176 with note: "Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 38, Moels, Nicholas de," by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford
  
• Occupation: Warden of Oxford Castle1254 in Oxford, Oxfordshire, England at LATI: N1.7504 LONG: E1.2601 with note: "Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 38, Moels, Nicholas de," by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford "Warden of Oxford Castle; gave to Henry de Hanna, the provincial of the Carmelites, a house in Oxford, which was the first establishment of that order in the university"
  
• Occupation: Sheriff1234 in Hampshire, England at LATI: N1.0786 LONG: E1.317 with note: "Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 38, Moels, Nicholas de," by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford "charge of the Channel Islands"
  
• accompanied+the+king: 1242 in Poitou, France at LATI: N6.6486 LONG: E0.2478 with note: Description: mission to Louis IX "Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 38, Moels, Nicholas de," by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford "with Ralph FitzNicholas on an unsuccessful mission to Louis IX at Frontenay, for the purpose of arranging a truce
  
• Occupation: SheriffMAR 1258 in Kent, England with note: "Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 38, Moels, Nicholas de," by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford "made Sheriff of Kent, with the charge of the castles of Rochester and Canterbury (after the parliament of Oxford, as a supporter of the king, he was removed from his office as warden, but retained the castles of Rochester and Canterbury)
  
• returned+to+England+: early 1245 with note: Description: from Gascony "Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 38, Moels, Nicholas de," by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford
  
• Occupation: Constable and Warden of the Cinque PortsJAN 1258 in Dover, Kent, England at LATI: N1.1274 LONG: E0.312 with note: "Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 38, Moels, Nicholas de," by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford "Warden of the Cinque Ports"
  
• royal+messenger: 1225 in Cologne, Auch, Gers, Midi-Pyrénées, France at LATI: N3.6962 LONG: E0.9753 with note: Description: with Walter Mauclerk "Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 38, Moels, Nicholas de," by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford "sent as a royal messenger to Cologne, in connection with the mission of Walter Mauclerk
  
• Occupation: had charge of Sherborne Castle1261 with note: "Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 38, Moels, Nicholas de," by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford
  
• His+parentage+is+unknown: with note: Description: name origin "Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 38, Moels, Nicholas de," by Charles Lethbridge Kingsford & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_de_Moels "; but a Roger de Molis occurs in the reign of King Stephen"
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  BIRTH: Year of birth is an estimate. He received land from King Henry III as early as 1217 (Vicary Gibbs, et al., Complete
  Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, 2d ed., vol. 9 (London: St. Catherine Press, 19136), 2.
  MAR: Gibbs, Complete Peerage, 9:4.
  DEATH: Ibid.
  OCC/TITLES: He was from an early age in the court of King John and was actively employed in the king's service. In 1223 he was an ambassador of Henry III in Poitou. During the same year, he accompanied the king on an expedition to Wales and in the following year at the siege of Bedford. In 1227 he was in the king's service in Gascony and was a joint ambassador to the Court of Flanders. He was sheriff of Hampshire and keeper of Winchester Castle from 1228 to 1232., sheriff of Devon 1234-1236 and of York 1239-1241 and of Kent to 1258. He was granted custody of the Channel Islands in 1234. At the coronation of Queen Eleanor in 1236, he and Richard Siward carried the two royal scepters. He was ambassador to the King of France in 1242. The following year he was appointed seneschal of Gascony. He served in the Welsh wars in 1246
  
  Sheriff of Kent, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
  Nicholas de Moels c 1195-1264/72
  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_de_Moels
  
  Arms of Nichol de Moels, from the Glover Roll: "d'argent od deux barres de gules ovec trois moeles de gules en le chief" (Argent, two bars gules in chief three torteaux)
  
  Nicholas de Moels was a medieval Norman administrator in Somerset.
  
  Life
  He was born about 1195. He married, as her second husband, Hawise de Newmarch, younger daughter & co-heiress of James de Newmarch feudal baron of North Cadbury, Somerset, in about 1224.[1][2] In 1230 he was granted the royal demesne manors of Kingskerswell and Diptford in Devon.[3]
  
  De Moels served as High Sheriff of Hampshire (1228-1232), High Sheriff of Devon (1234), and High Sheriff of Yorkshire (1239-1242) ; and Constable of Winchester Castle, Pembroke Castle, Haverfordwest Castle, Cilgerran Castle, Tenby Castle, Rochester Castle (1247), Canterbury Castle (1247) and Corfe Castle. He was also governor of the Channel Islands.[4]
  
  In 1244 he won a victory over French forces at Navarre, returned to fight in the Welsh wars and was made governor of the castles of Caernarvon and Cardigan. In 1246 he was then made Constable of Dover Castle, High Sheriff of Kent in 1247 and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports in 1258. [4]
  
  He died sometime after 1264 but sometime before 1272.[5]
  
  Children by Hawise de Newmarch
  Agnes de Moels was born about 1230 at Cadbury. She became the second wife of William de Braose, Lord of Bramber and Gower;[6]
  
  Roger de Moels was born about 1233/1237. He was appointed Marshal of the Army. Roger was also a governor of the castle of Lampsdervour in Ceredigion. He died in 1294;[6] His second son by his wife Alice de Preux (1236-1272) was John de Moels, 1st Baron Moels (d. 1310).
  
  James de Moels was born about 1254 either at Cadbury or at Chidecot, Lew, Exbourne, Devonshire, England;[6] He predeceased his father.
  
  Maud de Moels was born about 1258 at Chidecot. She married Richard de Lorti,[6] heir to the barony of Stoke Trister, Somerset.
  
  Sources
  Sanders, I.J. English Baronies, A Study of their Origin & Descent 1086-1327, Oxford, 1960, p. 68, "North Cadbury"
  
  Notes
  1 Sanders (1960), op.cit.
  
  2 "Nicholas de Moels". The Peerage.com. Retrieved 2009-08-19.
  
  3 Henry Summerson, 'Moels , Sir Nicholas de (d. 1268/9)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004. Online here (subscription required). Retrieved 2010-06-23.
  
  4 a b Kingsford 1894.
  
  5 "Sir Nicholas de Moels". DeLoria - Hurst Family Tree. Retrieved 2009-08-19.
  
  6 a b c d "Nicholas de MOELS / Hawise de NEWMARCHE". Genealogy. Retrieved 2009-08-19.
  
  References
  Kingsford, Charles Lethbridge (1894). "Moels, Nicholas de". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography. 38. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  Nicholas de Moels, Seneschal of Gascony, led the English force that had a signal victory over King Theobald I "the Troubadour" of Navarre in 1244.
  
  Nicholas appears to have been from an early age in the court of King John. He was granted the manor of Watlington "for his sustenance in the king's service" in 1217. He was made Sheriff of Hampshire, and governor of the castle of Winchester, and he continued in this office for four years after 1220.
  
  After 1220 Nicholas possessed in right of Hawise, his wife, the lordships of Cadebury, Saperton, and other manors in Somerset and the neighboring counties, thus becoming one of the greater landowners before September 1231. He also had the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Serke, and Aureny (Alderney) committed to his care after 1220.
  
  He was appointed a second time as Sheriff of Hampshire.
  
  He was sent to Poitou on an embassy from the King in April 1223. He served in the King's expedition into Wales circa July 1223. He served at the siege of Bedford in 1224.
  
  He was again sent to Poitou on an embassy from the King in January 1223/24.
  
  He was sent to Cologne as an ambassador to treat of a proposed marriage between King Henry III and a daughter of Leopold VI, Duke of Austria, in January 1224/25.
  
  Nicholas was granted the land of Little Berkhampstead in July 1226.
  
  He was on the King's service in 1227 at Gascony, France. He was charged with negotiations as to the truce with France in March 1228.
  
  Nicholas was a plenipotentiary, as miles noster familias, to treat of peace with Louis IX of France in April 1229.
  
  Nicholas was pardoned the 8 marks yearly due from him for debts of his father-in-law, James de Newmarch in September 1231.
  
  Nicholas was at the Coronation of Queen Eleanor, and along with Richard Siward, he carried the two royal sceptres.
  
  Nicholas held the office of Sheriff of Yorkshire before 1240.
  
  He was deputed with Ralph FitzNicholas, ambassador to France, for the purpose of denouncing war against the king of that realm in 1241.
  
  He was appointed seneschal of Gascony circa 1242 in France.
  
  Following the action in Navarre, Nicholas participated in the Welsh wars in 1245. He was constituted governor of the castles of Caermarthen and Cardigan circa 1246.
  
  Nicholas was appointed constable of Dover Castle and warden of the Cinque Ports after 1246 in Kent. He was made Sheriff of Kent, and governor of the castles of Rochester and Canterbury in March 1247.
  
  Nicholas was our ancestor through two distinct descent lines--through his daughter Maud and through his son Roger, each of whom was independently our ancestor,
  
  De Moels served as High Sheriff of Hampshire (1228–1232), High Sheriff of Devon (1234), and High Sheriff of Yorkshire (1239–1242) ; and Constable of Winchester Castle, Pembroke Castle, Haverfordwest Castle, Cilgerran Castle, Tenby Castle, Rochester Castle (1247), Canterbury Castle (1247) and Corffe Castle. He was also governor of the Channel Islands.[4]
  
  In 1244 he won a victory over French forces at Navarre, returned to fight in the Welsh wars and was made governor of the castles of Caernarvon and Cardigan. In 1246 he was then made Constable of Dover Castle, High Sheriff of Kent in 1247 and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports in 1258. [4]
  
  He died sometime after 1264 but sometime before 1272.[5]
  
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  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingskerswell
  
  "The first written record of Kingskerswell is in the Domesday Book where it is called Carsewelle. Before the Norman Conquest it was held by Edward the Confessor as part of the royal demesne; afterwards it continued in royal ownership under William the Conqueror and his descendants (in contrast to the nearby village of Abbotskerswell).[9] The first part of the village's name represents this royal ownership. The Saxon word carse probably means watercress, a plant that still grows freely in the local streams; and the last part of the name most likely refers to the wells and springs in the vicinity, though an alternative theory proposes that it derives from the Latin villa, indicating a Roman origin.[9]
  
  After being granted to several lords, but always escheating to the king due to the lack of any heirs,[9] the manor was given to Nicholas de Moels in 1230.[10] In 1268 his son, Roger de Molis, was granted the right to hold a weekly market on Tuesdays and an annual fair on 1 September.[11] The manor remained in the de Molis family until some time between 1349 and 1362 when it passed to the Courtenays for a short time until 1369 when it again escheated to the king...."
  
  Notes
  
  9. Walker, Hilda H. (1972), "Presidential Address 1972-The History of Kingskerswell, a Medieval Market Town", Devon Archaeological Society, 30: 195-215
  10. Henry Summerson, 'Moels , Sir Nicholas de (d. 1268/9)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004. Online here (subscription required). Retrieved 23 June 2010. 11. Letters, Samantha. "Online Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England & Wales to 1516: Devon". Centre for Metropolitan History. Retrieved 4 July 2010.
  
  Nicholas de Moels was usually recorded in Latin records as de MOLIS, as were ancestors and succeeding land holders of estates in Devon held by Roger de Molis by Domesday, subtenant of Baldwin de Meulles/Molis, alia Baldwin le Viscount, Fitzgibert, de Brionne, de Exiter and Baldwin the Sheriff. Estates in Domesday were Exbourne, High Hampton, Leuw Trenchard.
  
  The most celebrated lineage descended from Roger were the MULES. Other surnames which evolved from Molis in the immediate area of MULES estates between 1269 and into 1500s include Mulles, Mullis and Mullies in Cornwall County in Tintagel, Altarnun, Michaelstow and neighboring parishes.
  
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  Nicholas de Moels of Watlington & Cadbury's Timeline
  1195
  1195
  Birth of Nicholas
  Cadbury, Somserset, England
  1225
  1225
  Age 30
  Birth of James De Moels
  Cadbury, Somersetshire, England, United Kingdom
  1226
  1226
  Age 31
  Birth of Agnes de Moels
  Cadbury, Somersetshire, England
  
  === per Marlyn Lewis Sheriff of Kent, York, ===
  per Marlyn Lewis Sheriff of Kent, York, Southampton
  
  === ! of Watlington, Little Berkhampstead; ===
  ! of Watlington, Little Berkhampstead; Sherrif of Hants, Devon, York & J|Kent; Constable of Penbroke, Haverford, Tenby, Dover Castle; Rockester, Canterbury, Winchester, Corfe. ! RELATIONSHIP: Patron, H. Reed Black, is 20th G G Son.
  
  === Governor of the Castles of Rochester, Ca ===
  Governor of the Castles of Rochester, Canterbury, Shirbourne,AndCardigan.
  
  === King's Clerk ===
  King's Clerk
  
  === A23846-4 B 19 Co Kayne's Complete Peerag ===
  A23846-4 B 19 Co Kayne's Complete Peerage; Burke's Dormant and extinct Peerage; Dugdale Vol 1 pp 619-629; Royal Anc of Magna Charta by Collins.
  
  === NICHOLAS DE MOELS, whose parentage is un ===
  NICHOLAS DE MOELS, whose parentage is unknown, appears to have been from an early age in the court of King John, and was an official actively employed in the King's service both in embassies and the field. In 1217 the manor of Watlington was granted to him "for his sustenance in the king's service," and similar gifts followed. In April 1223, he was sent to Poitou on an embassy from the King, and again in the following January. In the summer of 1223 he served in the King's expedition into Wales, and in the following year at the siege of Bedford. In January 1224/5 he was one of the ambassadors sent. to Cologne to treat of a proposed marriage between Henry III and a daughter of Leopold VI, Duke of Austria. In July 1226 the land of Little Berkhampstead was granted to him, and this and other estates were later confirmed in fee. He also, by his marriage with a wealthy heiress, Hawise, one of the daughters and heirs of James de Newmarch, acquired Cadbury and other manors in Somerset and the neighbouring counties, thus becoming one of the greater landowners. In 1227 he was in Gascony on the King's service, and a joint ambassador to the Count of Flanders; in March 1228 was charged with negotiations as to the truce with France, and in November of that year, at Westminster, witnessed Henry's grant to the Bishop of Chichester of land in." New Street," now the site of Lincoln's Inn. In April of the following year, as miles noster familiaris, he was a plenipotentiary to treat of peace with Louis IX of France, and was again going to Gascony in the King's service. He was sheriff of Hants and custos of Winchester Castle from July 1228 to March 1231/2, sheriff of Devon, 1234-1236, of York, Easter 1239 to Michaelma 1241, and of Kent, March to October 1258. He was granted the custody of the Channel Islands in 1234, and was keeper the bishopric of Durham during part of the vacancy after the translation of Bishop Richard le Poer, 1237. At the Coronation of Queen EIeanor, in 1236, he and Richard Siward, milites strenui, carried the two royal sceptres. In 1242 he was ambassador to the King of France with Ralph FitzNicholas, and later in the year joined the English King in Bordeaux. In September 1243 Henry III, returning to England, left Nicholas de Moels as seneschal of Gascony. In the following year he inflicted a defcat on the King of Navarre. In 1245 he was appointed keeper of the castles of Cardigan and Carmarthen, and in the same year was constable of Pembroke, Haverford, Kilgarran and Tenby. In 1246 and 1247 he was in the wars of Wales and was seneschal of Carmarthen, and in February 1248/9 was added to the commissioners to deal with the King of Navarre. As "Nicholas de Molis, king's clerk," he had a grant of free warren in his demesne lands in Cadbury and Mapperton in January 1250/1. On 16 June 1252 he was sent into Gascony with Roscelin de Fos, Master of the Templars in England, as conservator of the truce between Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, and Gaston, Viscount de Bearn. He was engaged in Wales in connection with Henry's futile expedition in 1257, and in 1263 received his last military summons to the muster at Hereford against Llewelyn. In January 1257/8 he was appointed constable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports. He was constable of the castles of Rochester, Canterbury, and Winchester in 1258, of Sherborne in 1261, and of Corfe in 1263, and one of the King's serjeants in Windsor Castle 1263-64. He was on the King's side in the Barons' War, and was ordered, 4 July 1264, to deliver Windsor Castle to John, son of John, the custodian appointed by the Barons.
  
  He married, in or after 1230, Hawise, widow of John DE BOTREAUX (whom she married in 1218), and younger daughter and coheir of James DE NEWMARCH (de Neufmarché), of Cadbury, &c. Somerset. She apparently was living in 1244. He probably died in or shortly after 1264, and was certainly dead before Easter 1271. [Complete Peerage IX:1-4, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
  
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  Nicholas de Moels or Molis, seneschal of Gascony, was perhaps a native of Hampshire. His parentage is unknown; but a Roger de Molis occurs in the reign of Stephen. Nicholas de Moels is first mentioned as being in the royal service in September 1215, and again in March 1217. In January 1224 he is said to be going abroad on the royal service, and in the following year he was sent as a royal messenger to Cologne, in connection with the mission of Walter Mauclerk. In August 1226 Moels was dispatched as messenger to the king's borther, Earl Richard in Poitou, and in the following March is spoken of as being still in Gascony. From 1228 to 1232 he was sheriff of Hampshire and custos of Winchester Castle. In May 1230 he was with the king in Brittany, and was sent by him on a mission to Hugh, count of Marche, and his wife, Queen Isabella, the king's mother. In 1284 Moels was again sheriff of Hampshire, and in the same year had charge of the Channel Islands. From 1239 to 1241 he was sheriff of Yorkshire, and in 1241 was guardian of the bishopric of Durham during a vacancy. In 1241 Moels accompanied the king to Poitou, and was sent with Ralph FitzNicholas on an unsuccessful mission to Louis IX at Frontenay, for the purpose of arranging a truce. In the following year, about midsummer, Henry appointed Moels as seneschal (or steward) of Gascony. Moels was in this capacity employed at the seige of Gramont, near Bidache, in August. Trouble was already impending with Thibaut, king of Norway, who in the following year threatened Bayonne. eventually, in the autumn of 1244, Moels defeated the king. The only other known incident of his seneschalship is a conflict with Amigot de Garre, a Gascon robber-lord, who had captured certain messengers whom Moels had sent to Thibaut. Amigot, whose castle was seized by Moels in punishment, was afterwards taken into favour by Simon de Montfort. Moels appears to have returned to England in the early part of 1245, and later in that year was employed in Wales as governor of Cardigan and Caermarthen Castles. On 22 Jan 1251, on the complaint of the Gascons against Simon de Montfort, he was dispatched with Drego de Baretin to investigate the truth of the charge. The general tenor of their report was favourable to the earl. Moels was still in Gascony in June 1252, when he was appointed a conservator of the truce there in conjunction with Rocelin de Fos. In 1254, when warde of Oxford Castle, Moels gave to Henry de Hanna, the provincial of the Carmelites, a house in Oxford, which was the first establishment of that order in the university. In 1257 he was engaged in the Welsh war. In January 1258 he was made constable of Dover and warden of the Cinque ports, and in March sheriff of Kent, with the charge of the castles of Rochester and Canterbury. After the parliament of Oxford, Moels, as a supporter of the king, was removed from his office as warden, but retained the castles of Rochester and Canterbury. In 1261 he had charge of Sherborne Castle, and in 1263 of Corfe Castle. Probably he died not much later. Matthew Paris calls him 'miles strenuissimus et circumspectus.'
  
  Moels married before 1231 Hawyse, daughter of James de Newmarch, in whos right he held Cadbury in Somerset, and Sapperton in Gloucestershire. He had two sons, Roger and James who was educated with the king's son Edward. Roger de Moels fought in the Welsh wars of Edward I, and dying in 1285, was succeeded by his son John (1259-1310), who was summoned to parliament from 1293 to 1310. John was succeeded by three sons, Nicholas, Roger, and John, on the death of the last of whom, in 1338, the barony fell into abeyance between his two daughters. [Dictonary of National Biography, XIV:543-4]
  
  === SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 S ===
  SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.31, 35, 46; COKAYNE'S COMPLETE PEERAGE; BURKE'S DORMANT AND EXTINCT PEERAGE; DUGDALE'S BARONETAGE, VOL 1 P.619 THRU 629; ROYAL ANCESTORS OF MAGNA CHARTA BARONS BY COLLINS;
  
  === Nicholas was a great person in the cour ===
  Nicholas was a great person in the court of Henry III (1216-1272), in whose reign he served the several offices of Ambassador, Sheriff for divers counties, Governor of the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Sark and Aureney, or Alderney, and Governor of the Castles at Rochester, Canterbury, Shirbourne, Corf, Carmarthen and Cardigan. Nicholas was Sheriff of Hampshire, Governor of the Castle of Winchester. In the 28th of Henry VIII he obtained a signal victory over the King of Navarre, and returning to England the next year, and being an expert commander, he was employed against the Welsh and made Governor of Carmarthen and Cardigan. And in 42nd of Henry III he was constituted Constable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports. In January, 1224/5, he was one of the ambassadors to Cologne to treat of a proposed marriage between Henry III and a daughter of Leopold VI, Duke of Austria. Nicholas de Moels, whose parentage is unknown, appears to have been from an early age in the court of King John, and was an official actively employed in the King's service both at home and abroad. The King refers to him by the diminutive of "Colin," when sending a messenger from Canterbury in September, 1215, for certain things he had given him, and he is referred to in time of King Henry III as late as 1225. He was Plenipotentiary to treat with Louis IX for peace, and was still on the side of King Henry in the barons' war in 1264. He married, after 1230, Hawise de Newmarch, widow of John Botreaux, whom she had married in 1218; she died about 1244 and he died between 1264 and 1271. He was so highly regarded by King Henry III that James, his son and heir, was by special command admitted to have his education with Prince Edward, atterwards Edward I, the private tutors, Hugh de Giffard and Bernard de Savoy, having directions to receive him with one servant and to provide him with the necessaries.
  
  === Born in Cadbury Manor. ===
  Born in Cadbury Manor.
  === Life Sketch ===
  BIRTH: Year of birth is an estimate. He received land from King Henry III as early as 1217 (Vicary Gibbs, et al., Complete
  Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, 2d ed., vol. 9 (London: St. Catherine Press, 19136), 2.
  MAR: Gibbs, Complete Peerage, 9:4.
  DEATH: Ibid.
  OCC/TITLES: He was from an early age in the court of King John and was actively employed in the king's service. In 1223 he was an ambassador of Henry III in Poitou. During the same year, he accompanied the king on an expedition to Wales and in the following year at the siege of Bedford. In 1227 he was in the king's service in Gascony and was a joint ambassador to the Court of Flanders. He was sheriff of Hampshire and keeper of Winchester Castle from 1228 to 1232., sheriff of Devon 1234-1236 and of York 1239-1241 and of Kent to 1258. He was granted custody of the Channel Islands in 1234. At the coronation of Queen Eleanor in 1236, he and Richard Siward carried the two royal scepters. He was ambassador to the King of France in 1242. The following year he was appointed seneschal of Gascony. He served in the Welsh wars in 1246
  
  Sheriff of Kent, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports
  Nicholas de Moels c 1195-1264/72
  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_de_Moels
  
  Arms of Nichol de Moels, from the Glover Roll: "d'argent od deux barres de gules ovec trois moeles de gules en le chief" (Argent, two bars gules in chief three torteaux)
  
  Nicholas de Moels was a medieval Norman administrator in Somerset.
  
  Life
  He was born about 1195. He married, as her second husband, Hawise de Newmarch, younger daughter & co-heiress of James de Newmarch feudal baron of North Cadbury, Somerset, in about 1224.[1][2] In 1230 he was granted the royal demesne manors of Kingskerswell and Diptford in Devon.[3]
  
  De Moels served as High Sheriff of Hampshire (1228–1232), High Sheriff of Devon (1234), and High Sheriff of Yorkshire (1239–1242) ; and Constable of Winchester Castle, Pembroke Castle, Haverfordwest Castle, Cilgerran Castle, Tenby Castle, Rochester Castle (1247), Canterbury Castle (1247) and Corfe Castle. He was also governor of the Channel Islands.[4]
  
  In 1244 he won a victory over French forces at Navarre, returned to fight in the Welsh wars and was made governor of the castles of Caernarvon and Cardigan. In 1246 he was then made Constable of Dover Castle, High Sheriff of Kent in 1247 and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports in 1258. [4]
  
  He died sometime after 1264 but sometime before 1272.[5]
  
  Children by Hawise de Newmarch
  Agnes de Moels was born about 1230 at Cadbury. She became the second wife of William de Braose, Lord of Bramber and Gower;[6]
  
  Roger de Moels was born about 1233/1237. He was appointed Marshal of the Army. Roger was also a governor of the castle of Lampsdervour in Ceredigion. He died in 1294;[6] His second son by his wife Alice de Preux (1236–1272) was John de Moels, 1st Baron Moels (d. 1310).
  
  James de Moels was born about 1254 either at Cadbury or at Chidecot, Lew, Exbourne, Devonshire, England;[6] He predeceased his father.
  
  Maud de Moels was born about 1258 at Chidecot. She married Richard de Lorti,[6] heir to the barony of Stoke Trister, Somerset.
  
  Sources
  Sanders, I.J. English Baronies, A Study of their Origin & Descent 1086-1327, Oxford, 1960, p. 68, "North Cadbury"
  
  Notes
  1 Sanders (1960), op.cit.
  
  2 "Nicholas de Moels". The Peerage.com. Retrieved 2009-08-19.
  
  3 Henry Summerson, 'Moels , Sir Nicholas de (d. 1268/9)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, September 2004. Online here (subscription required). Retrieved 2010-06-23.
  
  4 a b Kingsford 1894.
  
  5 "Sir Nicholas de Moels". DeLoria – Hurst Family Tree. Retrieved 2009-08-19.
  
  6 a b c d "Nicholas de MOELS / Hawise de NEWMARCHE". Genealogy. Retrieved 2009-08-19.
  
  References
  Kingsford, Charles Lethbridge (1894). "Moels, Nicholas de". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography. 38. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  Nicholas de Moels, Seneschal of Gascony, led the English force that had a signal victory over King Theobald I "the Troubadour" of Navarre in 1244.
  
  Nicholas appears to have been from an early age in the court of King John. He was granted the manor of Watlington "for his sustenance in the king's service" in 1217. He was made Sheriff of Hampshire, and governor of the castle of Winchester, and he continued in this office for four years after 1220.
  
  After 1220 Nicholas possessed in right of Hawise, his wife, the lordships of Cadebury, Saperton, and other manors in Somerset and the neighboring counties, thus becoming one of the greater landowners before September 1231. He also had the islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Serke, and Aureny (Alderney) committed to his care after 1220.
  
  He was appointed a second time as Sheriff of Hampshire.
  
  He was sent to Poitou on an embassy from the King in April 1223. He served in the King's expedition into Wales circa July 1223. He served at the siege of Bedford in 1224.
  
  He was again sent to Poitou on an embassy from the King in January 1223/24.
  
  He was sent to Cologne as an ambassador to treat of a proposed marriage between King Henry III and a daughter of Leopold VI, Duke of Austria, in January 1224/25.
  
  Nicholas was granted the land of Little Berkhampstead in July 1226.
  
  He was on the King's service in 1227 at Gascony, France. He was charged with negotiations as to the truce with France in March 1228.
  
  Nicholas was a plenipotentiary, as miles noster familias, to treat of peace with Louis IX of France in April 1229.
  
  Nicholas was pardoned the 8 marks yearly due from him for debts of his father-in-law, James de Newmarch in September 1231.
  
  Nicholas was at the Coronation of Queen Eleanor, and along with Richard Siward, he carried the two royal sceptres.
  
  Nicholas held the office of Sheriff of Yorkshire before 1240.
  
  He was deputed with Ralph FitzNicholas, ambassador to France, for the purpose of denouncing war against the king of that realm in 1241.
  
  He was appointed seneschal of Gascony circa 1242 in France.
  
  Following the action in Navarre, Nicholas participated in the Welsh wars in 1245. He was constituted governor of the castles of Caermarthen and Cardigan circa 1246.
  
  Nicholas was appointed constable of Dover Castle and warden of the Cinque Ports after 1246 in Kent. He was made Sheriff of Kent, and governor of the castles of Rochester and Canterbury in March 1247.
  
  Nicholas was our ancestor through two distinct descent lines--through his daughter Maud and through his son Roger, each of whom was independently our ancestor,
  
  De Moels served as High Sheriff of Hampshire (1228–1232), High Sheriff of Devon (1234), and High Sheriff of Yorkshire (1239–1242) ; and Constable of Winchester Castle, Pembroke Castle, Haverfordwest Castle, Cilgerran Castle, Tenby Castle, Rochester Castle (1247), Canterbury Castle (1247) and Corffe Castle. He was also governor of the Channel Islands.[4]
  
  In 1244 he won a victory over French forces at Navarre, returned to fight in the Welsh wars and was made governor of the castles of Caernarvon and Cardigan. In 1246 he was then made Constable of Dover Castle, High Sheriff of Kent in 1247 and Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports in 1258. [4]
  
  He died sometime after 1264 but sometime before 1272.[5]
  
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  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingskerswell
  
  "The first written record of Kingskerswell is in the Domesday Book where it is called Carsewelle. Before the Norman Conquest it was held by Edward the Confessor as part of the royal demesne; afterwards it continued in royal ownership under William the Conqueror and his descendants (in contrast to the nearby village of Abbotskerswell).[9] The first part of the village's name represents this royal ownership. The Saxon word carse probably means watercress, a plant that still grows freely in the local streams; and the last part of the name most likely refers to the wells and springs in the vicinity, though an alternative theory proposes that it derives from the Latin villa, indicating a Roman origin.[9]
  
  After being granted to several lords, but always escheating to the king due to the lack of any heirs,[9] the manor was given to Nicholas de Moels in 1230.[10] In 1268 his son, Roger de Molis, was granted the right to hold a weekly market on Tuesdays and an annual fair on 1 September.[11] The manor remained in the de Molis family until some time between 1349 and 1362 when it passed to the Courtenays for a short time until 1369 when it again escheated to the king...."
  
  Notes
  
  9. Walker, Hilda H. (1972), "Presidential Address 1972—The History of Kingskerswell, a Medieval Market Town", Devon Archaeological Society, 30: 195–215
  10. Henry Summerson, 'Moels , Sir Nicholas de (d. 1268/9)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, Sept 2004. Online here (subscription required). Retrieved 23 June 2010. 11. Letters, Samantha. "Online Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England & Wales to 1516: Devon". Centre for Metropolitan History. Retrieved 4 July 2010.
  
  Nicholas de Moels was usually recorded in Latin records as de MOLIS, as were ancestors and succeeding land holders of estates in Devon held by Roger de Molis by Domesday, subtenant of Baldwin de Meulles/Molis, alia Baldwin le Viscount, Fitzgibert, de Brionne, de Exiter and Baldwin the Sheriff. Estates in Domesday were Exbourne, High Hampton, Leuw Trenchard.
  
  The most celebrated lineage descended from Roger were the MULES. Other surnames which evolved from Molis in the immediate area of MULES estates between 1269 and into 1500s include Mulles, Mullis and Mullies in Cornwall County in Tintagel, Altarnun, Michaelstow and neighboring parishes.
  
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  Nicholas de Moels of Watlington & Cadbury's Timeline
  1195
  1195
  Birth of Nicholas
  Cadbury, Somserset, England
  1225
  1225
  Age 30
  Birth of James De Moels
  Cadbury, Somersetshire, England, United Kingdom
  1226
  1226
  Age 31
  Birth of Agnes de Moels
  Cadbury, Somersetshire, England
  
  === per Marlyn Lewis Sheriff of Kent, York, ===
  per Marlyn Lewis Sheriff of Kent, York, Southampton
  
  === SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 S ===
  SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO68) P.31, 35, 46; COKAYNE'S COMPLETE PEERAGE; BURKE'S DORMANT AND EXTINCT PEERAGE; DUGDALE'S BARONETAGE, VOL 1 P.619 THRU 629; ROYAL ANCESTORS OF MAGNA CHARTA BARONS BY COLLINS;
  
  === Governor of the Castles of Rochester, Ca ===
  Governor of the Castles of Rochester, Canterbury, Shirbourne,AndCardigan.
  
  === NICHOLAS DE MOELS, whose parentage is un ===
  NICHOLAS DE MOELS, whose parentage is unknown, appears to have been from an early age in the court of King John, and was an official actively employed in the King's service both in embassies and the field. In 1217 the manor of Watlington was granted to him "for his sustenance in the king's service," and similar gifts followed. In April 1223, he was sent to Poitou on an embassy from the King, and again in the following January. In the summer of 1223 he served in the King's expedition into Wales, and in the following year at the siege of Bedford. In January 1224/5 he was one of the ambassadors sent. to Cologne to treat of a proposed marriage between Henry III and a daughter of Leopold VI, Duke of Austria. In July 1226 the land of Little Berkhampstead was granted to him, and this and other estates were later confirmed in fee. He also, by his marriage with a wealthy heiress, Hawise, one of the daughters and heirs of James de Newmarch, acquired Cadbury and other manors in Somerset and the neighbouring counties, thus becoming one of the greater landowners. In 1227 he was in Gascony on the King's service, and a joint ambassador to the Count of Flanders; in March 1228 was charged with negotiations as to the truce with France, and in November of that year, at Westminster, witnessed Henry's grant to the Bishop of Chichester of land in." New Street," now the site of Lincoln's Inn. In April of the following year, as miles noster familiaris, he was a plenipotentiary to treat of peace with Louis IX of France, and was again going to Gascony in the King's service. He was sheriff of Hants and custos of Winchester Castle from July 1228 to March 1231/2, sheriff of Devon, 1234-1236, of York, Easter 1239 to Michaelma 1241, and of Kent, March to October 1258. He was granted the custody of the Channel Islands in 1234, and was keeper the bishopric of Durham during part of the vacancy after the translation of Bishop Richard le Poer, 1237. At the Coronation of Queen EIeanor, in 1236, he and Richard Siward, milites strenui, carried the two royal sceptres. In 1242 he was ambassador to the King of France with Ralph FitzNicholas, and later in the year joined the English King in Bordeaux. In September 1243 Henry III, returning to England, left Nicholas de Moels as seneschal of Gascony. In the following year he inflicted a defcat on the King of Navarre. In 1245 he was appointed keeper of the castles of Cardigan and Carmarthen, and in the same year was constable of Pembroke, Haverford, Kilgarran and Tenby. In 1246 and 1247 he was in the wars of Wales and was seneschal of Carmarthen, and in February 1248/9 was added to the commissioners to deal with the King of Navarre. As "Nicholas de Molis, king's clerk," he had a grant of free warren in his demesne lands in Cadbury and Mapperton in January 1250/1. On 16 June 1252 he was sent into Gascony with Roscelin de Fos, Master of the Templars in England, as conservator of the truce between Simon de Montfort, Earl of Leicester, and Gaston, Viscount de Bearn. He was engaged in Wales in connection with Henry's futile expedition in 1257, and in 1263 received his last military summons to the muster at Hereford against Llewelyn. In January 1257/8 he was appointed constable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports. He was constable of the castles of Rochester, Canterbury, and Winchester in 1258, of Sherborne in 1261, and of Corfe in 1263, and one of the King's serjeants in Windsor Castle 1263-64. He was on the King's side in the Barons' War, and was ordered, 4 July 1264, to deliver Windsor Castle to John, son of John, the custodian appointed by the Barons.
  
  He married, in or after 1230, Hawise, widow of John DE BOTREAUX (whom she married in 1218), and younger daughter and coheir of James DE NEWMARCH (de Neufmarché), of Cadbury, &c. Somerset. She apparently was living in 1244. He probably died in or shortly after 1264, and was certainly dead before Easter 1271. [Complete Peerage IX:1-4, (transcribed by Dave Utzinger)]
  
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  Nicholas de Moels or Molis, seneschal of Gascony, was perhaps a native of Hampshire. His parentage is unknown; but a Roger de Molis occurs in the reign of Stephen. Nicholas de Moels is first mentioned as being in the royal service in September 1215, and again in March 1217. In January 1224 he is said to be going abroad on the royal service, and in the following year he was sent as a royal messenger to Cologne, in connection with the mission of Walter Mauclerk. In August 1226 Moels was dispatched as messenger to the king's borther, Earl Richard in Poitou, and in the following March is spoken of as being still in Gascony. From 1228 to 1232 he was sheriff of Hampshire and custos of Winchester Castle. In May 1230 he was with the king in Brittany, and was sent by him on a mission to Hugh, count of Marche, and his wife, Queen Isabella, the king's mother. In 1284 Moels was again sheriff of Hampshire, and in the same year had charge of the Channel Islands. From 1239 to 1241 he was sheriff of Yorkshire, and in 1241 was guardian of the bishopric of Durham during a vacancy. In 1241 Moels accompanied the king to Poitou, and was sent with Ralph FitzNicholas on an unsuccessful mission to Louis IX at Frontenay, for the purpose of arranging a truce. In the following year, about midsummer, Henry appointed Moels as seneschal (or steward) of Gascony. Moels was in this capacity employed at the seige of Gramont, near Bidache, in August. Trouble was already impending with Thibaut, king of Norway, who in the following year threatened Bayonne. eventually, in the autumn of 1244, Moels defeated the king. The only other known incident of his seneschalship is a conflict with Amigot de Garre, a Gascon robber-lord, who had captured certain messengers whom Moels had sent to Thibaut. Amigot, whose castle was seized by Moels in punishment, was afterwards taken into favour by Simon de Montfort. Moels appears to have returned to England in the early part of 1245, and later in that year was employed in Wales as governor of Cardigan and Caermarthen Castles. On 22 Jan 1251, on the complaint of the Gascons against Simon de Montfort, he was dispatched with Drego de Baretin to investigate the truth of the charge. The general tenor of their report was favourable to the earl. Moels was still in Gascony in June 1252, when he was appointed a conservator of the truce there in conjunction with Rocelin de Fos. In 1254, when warde of Oxford Castle, Moels gave to Henry de Hanna, the provincial of the Carmelites, a house in Oxford, which was the first establishment of that order in the university. In 1257 he was engaged in the Welsh war. In January 1258 he was made constable of Dover and warden of the Cinque ports, and in March sheriff of Kent, with the charge of the castles of Rochester and Canterbury. After the parliament of Oxford, Moels, as a supporter of the king, was removed from his office as warden, but retained the castles of Rochester and Canterbury. In 1261 he had charge of Sherborne Castle, and in 1263 of Corfe Castle. Probably he died not much later. Matthew Paris calls him 'miles strenuissimus et circumspectus.'
  
  Moels married before 1231 Hawyse, daughter of James de Newmarch, in whos right he held Cadbury in Somerset, and Sapperton in Gloucestershire. He had two sons, Roger and James who was educated with the king's son Edward. Roger de Moels fought in the Welsh wars of Edward I, and dying in 1285, was succeeded by his son John (1259-1310), who was summoned to parliament from 1293 to 1310. John was succeeded by three sons, Nicholas, Roger, and John, on the death of the last of whom, in 1338, the barony fell into abeyance between his two daughters. [Dictonary of National Biography, XIV:543-4]
  
  === Born in Cadbury Manor. ===
  Born in Cadbury Manor.
  
  === A23846-4 B 19 Co Kayne's Complete Peerag ===
  A23846-4 B 19 Co Kayne's Complete Peerage; Burke's Dormant and extinct Peerage; Dugdale Vol 1 pp 619-629; Royal Anc of Magna Charta by Collins.
  
  === Nicholas was a great person in the cour ===
  Nicholas was a great person in the court of Henry III (1216-1272), in whose reign he served the several offices of Ambassador, Sheriff for divers counties, Governor of the Islands of Guernsey, Jersey, Sark and Aureney, or Alderney, and Governor of the Castles at Rochester, Canterbury, Shirbourne, Corf, Carmarthen and Cardigan. Nicholas was Sheriff of Hampshire, Governor of the Castle of Winchester. In the 28th of Henry VIII he obtained a signal victory over the King of Navarre, and returning to England the next year, and being an expert commander, he was employed against the Welsh and made Governor of Carmarthen and Cardigan. And in 42nd of Henry III he was constituted Constable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports. In January, 1224/5, he was one of the ambassadors to Cologne to treat of a proposed marriage between Henry III and a daughter of Leopold VI, Duke of Austria. Nicholas de Moels, whose parentage is unknown, appears to have been from an early age in the court of King John, and was an official actively employed in the King's service both at home and abroad. The King refers to him by the diminutive of "Colin," when sending a messenger from Canterbury in September, 1215, for certain things he had given him, and he is referred to in time of King Henry III as late as 1225. He was Plenipotentiary to treat with Louis IX for peace, and was still on the side of King Henry in the barons' war in 1264. He married, after 1230, Hawise de Newmarch, widow of John Botreaux, whom she had married in 1218; she died about 1244 and he died between 1264 and 1271. He was so highly regarded by King Henry III that James, his son and heir, was by special command admitted to have his education with Prince Edward, atterwards Edward I, the private tutors, Hugh de Giffard and Bernard de Savoy, having directions to receive him with one servant and to provide him with the necessaries.
  
  === ! of Watlington, Little Berkhampstead; ===
  ! of Watlington, Little Berkhampstead; Sherrif of Hants, Devon, York & J|Kent; Constable of Penbroke, Haverford, Tenby, Dover Castle; Rockester, Canterbury, Winchester, Corfe. ! RELATIONSHIP: Patron, H. Reed Black, is 20th G G Son.
  
  === King's Clerk ===
  King's Clerk

• m. BEF 1231 in England

1. Roger de Moels, b. ABT 1233 in Kingskerswell, Devon, England     d. BEF 17 JUN 1295

1. Title: Nicholas de Moels, Wikipedia
   Publication: Name: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_de_Moels;
   Note: He served as Sheriff of Hampshire (1228–1232), Sheriff of Devon (1234), and Sheriff of Yorkshire (1239–1242); also as Constable of Winchester Castle, Pembroke Castle, Haverfordwest Castle, Cilgerran Castle, Tenby Castle, Rochester Castle (1247), Canterbury Castle (1247) and Corfe Castle. He was also Governor of the Channel Islands.[9][c]Hawise he had children including: James de Moels (d.March 1252/3), eldest son and heir apparent who predeceased his father. In 1243 he was assigned to be educated with Prince Edward, son of King Henry III.[21] Roger de Moels (c.1233/7[citation needed]-1294), 2nd but eldest surviving son and heir, Marshal of the Army and Governor of Lampsdervour Castle in Ceredigion.[22] He married Alice, daughter of William de Preux.[23] His second son was John de Moels, 1st Baron Moels (d. 1310). Agnes de Moels (born 1230), born at Cadbury, the second wife of William de Braose, 1st Baron Braose, feudal baron of Bramber and Gower.[24] Maud de Moels (born c.1258)1258[citation needed], married Richard de L'Orti, or de Urtiaco, heir to the barony of Stoke Trister, Somerset.[25] Nicholas de Moels died between November 1268 and 24 June 1269.[19]
   Page: Gives sources for his life and family
   
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