Nele Fossard Lord Mulgrave

  General Notes:

~Yorkshire: Historical and Topographical Introduction to a Knowledge of the Ancient State of the Wapentake of Strafford and Tickhill; With Ample Account of Doncaster and Conisbrough. pp. 5-8, doesn't give this Fossard's name, but his son Robert is referred to as the grandson of Nigel Fossard.

~Select Civil Pleas: Volume I A.D. 1200 - 1203, p. 18, refers to him without naming him with calling Robert the grandson of Nigel Fossard. ^867,869

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information: ¹⁴¹
Robert Meinill married Gertrude, probably the daughter of Nele Fossard and sister of Robert Fossard. Gertrude, widow of Robert Meinill, married Jordan Paynel.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. VIII, p. 620

• Background Information: ¹⁰⁶²
The 'manor' and 2 carucates at Lythe belonged to Swen before the Conquest, and were in 1086 held of the Count of Mortain [V.C.H. Yorks. ii, 308] by Niel Fossard, [Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 198] who is said to have been a tenant 'before the Conquest.' [Ibid.; Chron. Mon. de Melsa (Rolls Ser.), i, 104] Niel was succeeded by his son Robert, father of William, who left a son and heir William, [Plac. de Quo Warr.] a minor. Henry II gave the heir's wardship to William Earl of Albemarle, [Chron. Mon. de Melsa] who was thus tenant of Lythe in 1179, [Pipe R. 26 Hen. II (Pipe R. Soc.), 68] the year of his death. [G.E.C. Peerage, i, 55] For the betrayal of the earl's sister the heir was obliged to flee the country. [Chron. Mon. de Melsa] He returned after his guardian's death and is said to have recovered his inheritance, [Ibid. 105] but from 1180 to 1197 Lythe and its soke seems to have remained in the king's hands, paying tallage with other royal demesnes. [Pipe R. 27 Hen. II (Pipe R. Soc.), 35; 28 Hen. II, 37; 29 Hen. II, 47; 30 Hen. II, 30; Pipe R. 33 Hen. II, m. 1 d.; Hunter, Gt. R. of the Pipe 1 Ric. I (Rec. Com.), 81; Pipe R. 6 Ric. I, m. 2; 8 Ric. I, m. 16.] William left a daughter and heir Joan, a minor in custody of the king, who gave her in marriage to Robert de Turnham, [Plac. de Quo Warr. (Rec. Com.), 198] Beatrice widow of William suing for dower in 1199. [Yorks. Fines, John (Surt. Soc.), 1] Joan was perhaps dead in 1210-12 when Robert de Turnham held thirtyone and a half knights' fees in chief in Yorkshire. [Red Bk. of Exch. (Rolls Ser.), 490] Isabel daughter and heir of Robert and Joan married the Poitevin esquire of King John, Peter de Mauley to whom the king gave her marriage, nominally for the payment of 7,000 marks, but really, it was afterwards said, as the price for the murder of the king's nephew Arthur. With the beginning of the Mauley lordship the manor of Lythe [Last mentioned in 1253-4 (Cal. Pat. 1247-58, p. 266)] seems to have been merged in the manor of Mulgrave, Mulgrave Castle being the head of the Mauley barony.

A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 2, ed. William Page (London, 1923), pp. 388-399. British History Online