Nigel Fossard

• Preferred Name: Nigel Fossard
  
• Alternate Name: Nele
  
• Gender: M
  
• FSID: G6Q4-6JD
  
• Death: 1 FEB 1120 in Mulgrave Castle, Yorkshire, England at LATI: N4.4833 LONG: E0.6833
  
• Fact: NOT MARRIED with note: Description: https://www.geni.com/people/Nigel-de-Fossard/6000000057528639997?through=6000000003086858606
  
• Birth: 1042 in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England at LATI: N3.523 LONG: E1.1328 with note: standardized
  
• Notes:

  === SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 S ===
  SORLEY'S PEDIGREES (GS NUMBER Q929.242 SO.68) P.30;
  
  === !From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 ===
  !From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
  
  === !NOTE: The Church of Jesus Christ of Lat ===
  !NOTE: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (TM); ; June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998; ; , Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA
  
  === M E Sorley: The Sorley Pedigrees P. 30 ===
  M E Sorley: The Sorley Pedigrees P. 30
  
  === From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 J ===
  From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996. From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
  
  === !GENERAL:Pedigree Resource File CD 4, Pe ===
  !GENERAL:Pedigree Resource File CD 4, Pedigree Resource File CD 4, (Salt Lake City, UT: Intellectual Reserve, Inc., 1999) !GENERAL:Ancestral File (TM), Ancestral File (TM), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, June 1998 (c), data as of 5 JAN 1998 Repository: Family History Library 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150 USA
  
  === From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 J ===
  From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996. From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996. From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
  
  === From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 J ===
  From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
  
  === From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 J ===
  From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996. From Ancestral File (TM), data as of 2 January 1996.
  
  === _P_CCINFO 1-14417 ===
  _P_CCINFO 1-14417
  
  === Nigel, the vassal of the Earl of Mortain ===
  Nigel, the vassal of the Earl of Mortaine, held, jointly with Richard de Surdeval, the whole of his Yorkshire lands, by what rent or service is not known. "This Nigel is called Nigel Fossard. He was the ancestor of a race of Lords of Doncaster who continued to possess the interest he enjoyed there till the reign of King Henry V. His rights are now vested, by a grant of King Henry VII in the corporation of Doncaster. The name of the Earls of Mortaine does not afterwards appear, but the descendants of Nigel are represented as holding in chief of the king, and were amongst the barons of the realm.
  
  "Nigle held much of Mortaine lands in other parts of the country. Besides the manor and soke of Doncaster, he had Rotherham, held of him by the family of Vesci. " -Hunter's South Yorkshire.
  
  "How he acquired the name of Fossard, which means more frequently gravedigger than ditcher, does not appear. It might have been a family surname, though, of course, with this meaning when first given. 'Fossarius' holds lands of the Count of Mortaine at Berhampsted (Domesd.)." - A S Ellis. Nigel held in all ninety-one Yorkshire manors: and "as became one so favoured by fortune, was a most liveral benefactor to St Mary's Abbey, York. His charter is witnessed by Robert Fossard, Aschitell de Bulmer, and Walter Fossard; the first and last, no doubt, being his own sons, the younger one giving precedence to an important tenant. This grant is so prodigal, that we may suspect it was made on his death bed when stricken with remorse (Old Mon. i. 394)
  
  "Robert Fossard succeeded his father, and, by heavy fines, regained all his lands, except Doncaster, after the forfeiture of William Count of Mortaine, and became a tenant in capite of them. Doncaster, the King retained for twenty years. " -Ibid
  
  Hunter, likewise, calls Nigel Fossard's son Robert, and says his grandson and great-grandson were both named William. Dugdale arranges the succession differently, inserting Adam Fossard as the next heir to Nigel, and thus making Robert his grandson. [Battle Abbey Roll II:360-361]

1. Robert Fossard, b. 1079 in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England     d. 1135 in Mulgrave Castle, Yorkshire, England
2. Gertrude Fossard, b. ABT 1080 in South Otterington, Yorkshire, England     d. 1120 in Yorkshire, England