Nigel

• Preferred Name: Nigel ^{[1] [2] [3]}
  
• Gender: M
  
• Death: Y
  
• FSID: GXRR-LZX
  
• Birth: ABT 1070 with note: His place of birth is unknown.
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  "Nothing is known for certain of William’s father Nigel, who is
  entirely absent from contemporary record. According to a fourteenth-century account from Norton priory, dismissed by James Tait as fictional, he came to England with Earl Hugh (Monasticon, vi. 315, no. iii; J. Tait, ‘The foundation charter of Runcorn (later Norton) priory’, Miscellanea VII, Chetham Soc. 100 (1939), 4–5). Tait was no more accepting of the postulated connection with certain vicomtes of the Cotentin in Normandy, which he described as the invention of unscrupulous heralds in the sixteenth century (ibid. 5–7). " ( William fitz Nigel, attached in sources.)

1. Title: The Family of Constable of Flamborough--Early Yorkshire Charters vol. 12
   Author: Early Yorkshire Charters, volume 12, The Tison Fee, ed. William Farrer and Clarles Travis Clay, The Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Record Series, Extra Series, Vol. X, 1965, Chap. V, The Family of Constable of Flamborough
   Publication: Name: https://books.google.com/books?id=GgyGGC4jL00C&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false;
   Note: With more up-to-date information on the descent of this family. Because this is a new book, some of the pages cited here may not be available at the web address. I have used the actual book to cite sources.
   Page: Relates the unsupported story that Nigel accompanied Hugh, afterwards earl of Chester to England and was given by him the barony of Halton in Cheshire (Mon. Ang., vi., 315.)
   
2. Title: Our Royal, Titled, Noble, and Commoner Ancestors & Cousins
   Publication: Name: https://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p294.htm#i8830;
   
3. Title: Nigel and sons in Cheetham Miscellanie, Vol. 100 N.S
   Author: Chetham miscellanie by [Manchester]; Chetham Society, 1851, The Foundation Charter of Runcorn Priory
   Publication: Name: https://archive.org/details/chethammiscellan7100manc/page/4/mode/2up?q=Nigel;
   Note: "It was not until the sixteenth century that unscrupulous heralds linked him up with the vicomtes of the Cotentin whose seat was at Saint- Sauveur near Valognes. This affiliation seems first to appear in print in Henry Peacham’s Complete Gentleman .[4] Nigel is there said to have been son of Ivo, viscount of Cotentin, by a sister of a (misnamed) count of Brittany."