Nicholas Fitz Robert

  Noted events in his life were:

• Background Information. ¹⁴⁶¹
"Nicholas the second sonne of Lord Robert is often written Nicholaus, filius Roberti, filij Hardingi, And sometymes Nicholaus, frater Mauritij, But most usually Nycholaus de Tykenham.

"From his father, for his portion, he had at one tyme the villages of Hull and Nindesfeld members of his siad Barony by Deed . . . And at other tymes, for his further portion, this Nicholas had from his father, the Mannors of Cokerford and Langestane, and divers lands in Tykenham in Somersetshire, from whence hee tooke his usual appellation of Lord of Tykenham, because he most residence after his marriage, was there, And diuers lands and Tenements in Bristoll, Cheshull, Porthshed, Rualach and other places in that County, with some others in that and other Countyes.

"The red booke in the Exchequer sheweth, That this Nicholaus payd Severall Escuages to King Henry the second in the vij^th . viij^th and xxij^th years of his raigne towards his warrs in Tholous, Ireland, and Galway, And also Ayde in the thirteenth of of that Kinge to marry Mawde his eldest daughter to the Duke of Saxony, for the lands hee held in the County of Somerset.

"The pipe roll in Anno. 33. H : 2 . . . payd by the Barons shewes that Nicholaus payd ten shillings toward the Kings Army into Wales."

"This Nicholaus had to wife Ala daughter and coheire of Guido als wido sonne of Tecius lord of Tykenham, by which mariage his estate in Tykenham and in diuvers faire lands inye Countyes of Somersett, Cambridge &c. was greatly advanced.

"This Ala in many of her Deedes of widowhood reverenceth her husbands memory with these words, dominus vir meus Nicholaus, and dominus meus Nicholaus my lord and husband ; my lord Nicholas, and the like.

"By her this Nicholas had issue Henry, who after mans estate, dyed without issue, And Roger, Jordan, and Ala marryed to Ralph Bloet with whom her sayd Father gave in mariage the forsaide Manor of Langstan, And hee dyed the fifth of May in the sixth yeare of Richard the first, Anno. 1189."

~The Berkeley Manuscripts, Volume I. pp. 45-47

Nicholas married Ala de Tickenham, daughter of Guido de Tickenham and Unknown.¹⁴⁶¹ (Ala de Tickenham was born in Tickenham, Long Ashton Somersetshire, England and died after 1189 in Tickenham, Long Ashton Somersetshire, England ¹⁴⁶¹.)