de Cotentin, Nigel

1020 - 1080  (60 years)

• Name	de Cotentin, Nigel  [1]
  Birth	1020	Cotentin, Côtes-d'Armor, Bretagne, France
  Gender	Male
  FSID	GNB4-QVL
  Death	1080	Halton, Lancashire, England
  Person ID	I35491	The Thoma Family
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2023

  
  

  Family	de Widnes, Agnes,   b. 1025, Widnes, Lancashire, England d. 1075 (Age 50 years)
  Children	1. FitzNigel, William,   b. 1058, Manche, Basse-Normandie, France d. 1134, Halton, Cheshire, England (Age 76 years)  [natural]
  Family ID	F14109	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	20 Sep 2023

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 1020 - Cotentin, Côtes-d'Armor, Bretagne, France Death - 1080 - Halton, Lancashire, England  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Notes

  "Nothing is known for certain of William’s father Nigel, who is entirely absent from contemporary record. According to a fourteenth-century account from Norton priory, dismissed by James Tait as fictional, he came to England with Earl Hugh (Monasticon, vi. 315, no. iii; J. Tait, ‘The foundation charter of Runcorn (later Norton) priory’, Miscellanea VII, Chetham Soc. 100 (1939), 4–5). Tait was no more accepting of the postulated connection with certain vicomtes of the Cotentin in Normandy, which he described as the invention of unscrupulous heralds in the sixteenth century (ibid. 5–7). " ( William fitz Nigel, attached in sources.)

  
  

• Sources

  [S2814] WORLD: Google Books. https://books.google.com/?sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjjsYqMisn5AhVRK0QIHUjdDuQQPAgC