Nigel de Monville, of Folkestone

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• Name	Nigel de Monville
  Suffix	of Folkestone
  Gender	Male
  Tree top	Y
  Died	?
  Notes	Became Lord of Folkestone 1095 From "Corrections to Domesday Descendants" [www.linacre.ox.ac.uk/research/prosop/ Corrections%20to%20Domesday%20Descendants.doc]... Nigel de Monneuile Norman, from Monville, Seine-Maritime, arr. Rouen, cant. Clères, according to Loyd, 69, but much more likely to have originated in the west of Normandy, at Muneville-le-Bingard, Manche. Occurs in Domesday Book holding of a moneyer in York; his pposition in the entry suggests he was associated with Robert of Mortain. Among two charters granting land at Le Bingard to Mont-Saint-Michel, one of them by Humphrey de Cambernon, a vassal of Robert of Mortain, was a grant by a certain Ralph, hihis wife Asa and son Nigel (Cartulary of Mont-Saint-Michel, fol. 35r). He occurs in 1093-6 among the knights of the archbishop of Canterbury, following his marriage to Emma, daughter of William of Arques, lord of Folkestone. Founder of Folkestone priory, a cell of Lonlay, c. 1095, and also a benefactor of Bermondsey priory (Mon. Ang. iv, 672; v, 96) in 1103. His heir at his death c. 1103 was his daughter Matilda, wife of Rualon d'Avranches (d. 1130-4) (ibid, iv, 674). His widow Emma married secondly Manasser count of Guînes. [1]
  Person ID	I489	Roy~Royes | Hougham
  Last Modified	3 Oct 2010

  
  

  Family	Emma d' Arques, of Folkestone           b. 1080, Arques La Bataille, Seine Inferieure, Normandie, France           d. 1140, Folkestone, Kent, England  (Age 60 years)  ▸ Other Partners: Count Robert Manasses, de Guisnes
  Children	+ 1. Maud de Monville ▸ Rualon d' Avranches, Sheriff of Kent, m. Abt 1095   2. William de Monville           d. ?
  Last Modified	28 Mar 2014
  Family ID	F229	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Sources

  [S251] Hougham/Huffam Family Tree, Robin Young.