Nicholas Meinill

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• Background Information. ⁸¹⁴
Nicholas Meinill held the manor and castle of Wherlton, Yorkshire. He was summoned in 26 Edward I "equis et armis" to Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He was styled a baron in the writ. He was again summoned, 27 Edward I, and died about that year, leaving Christian, his wife, and sons Nicholas, aged twenty-four at the time, and John, later heir to his brother Nicholas.

~Baronia Anglica Concentrata, Vol. I, p. 313

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Nicholas de Meinhill, of Whorlton, co. York, apparently was the 2^nd but 1^st surviving son and heir. On 12 Sep 1257 confirmation was given to a lease for 20 years made to him, as son and heir of Stephen de Meinill, by John de Nevill of the manor of Pykehale (Pickhill), co. York. In 1268 he was a surety for Sir Walter de Fauconberg for his fine for the ransom of his lands. On 16 Jul 1269, having succeeded his father, he had a grant of free warren in his demesne lands in Wherlueton [Whorlton), Grenhou (Greenhow, parish of Ingleby Greenhow), Semere (Seamer in Cleveland), and Eston, and a weekly market and a yearly fair in his manor of Whorlton. At some time previous to 1275 he endeavored to pass off on his ward Robert Guer or le Gower an illegitimate daughter of John de Stoteville his uncle. In 1275 it was complained that he had not allowed the wapentake pleas of Langbaurgh to be held in his lands, and had ploughed up a common way leading from the vill of Trenholme to the church of Whorlton. In 1276, he acknowledged that he owed 20 marks to John Mohaut (de Monte Alto), to be levied in default of payment from his lands in co. York. In 1278, he was pardoned by the King a debt of 100 marks due to Juette daughter of Bennet, a Jewess of York. In 1277 he was summoned for military service against Llewelyn, Prince of Wales, and against the Welsh and Scots on various occasions from 1282 to 1299, and for service in Gascony in 1294 and 1295. In 1279, he was returned as having held of Piers de Mauley the Second a knight's fee in Greenhow, Tunstall, and Great Ayton. On 9 Feb 1280/1 he had license to hunt the fox and hare with his own hounds in the woods of Aldwark within the forest of Galtres. In 1282, as lord of Whorlton, he confirmed to Guisborough Priory all the lands which the Prior and convent held within his -fees of Cleveland. He was summoned to attend the King at Shrewsbury 28 Jun 1283. In 1285 he had a grant of free warren in his demesne lands in Castle Leavington, a manor, which had been, granted to him and Christine his wife and his heirs by the King for good service earlier in the same year. In the same year he was in possession of the manor of Tanton (parish of Stokesley), which had been alienated to him by William de Mowbray. He was summoned to appear with horses and arms at a military council at Gloucester before Edmund, Earl of Cornwall, in 1287. He was summoned again to attend the King on urgent affairs 8 Jun 1294. In 1290 he was pardoned for an amercement of 100 shillings for default before the justices for forest pleas in co. York. He was summoned to Parliament from 24 Jun 1295 to 6 Feb 1298/9, by writs directed Nicholao de Meynil, Meinill or Meignil, whereby he is held to have become Lord Meinill.

Nicholas de Meinill married Christine. He died before 27 May 1299. On 21 July the escheator was ordered to deliver to Christine his widow the manor of Castle Leavington. The King granted her marriage, 13 Sep., to Saer de Huntingfield, and on 16 Nov., with the heir's consent, she was assigned as dower the manor of Eston and lands in Potto (parish of Whorlton). In 1310, as widow of Nicholas de Meinill of Whorlton, she was granted by the Archbishop of York the marriage of Richard, son and heir of Sir Robert de Furneaux. She was dead before 22 Jan 1311/2.


~ Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. VIII, (Meihill), pp. 625-627

Nicholas married Christina.¹⁴¹ (Christina died before 22 Jan 1312 in Yorkshire, England ¹⁴¹.)