1390 Nicholas de Longford and William Fitzherbert made an exchange of land. [1]
Deed whereby Nicholas de Longeford grants to William Fitzherbert of Northbury [Norbury] all his land "en le Milneholme" near Dovebrugpleos, between Ekkescroft and Theveholme, in exchange for the land called Alwaldesholme "del coulesue desques al ewe de Douue." Dat. Northbury, 26 Aug., 14 Ric. II [1390]. Seal of arms of William Fitzherbert. (Longford.)
1391 A set of documents regarding Pinxton and Normaton in Derbyshire named NicholasLongford knight and wife Margery. [2]
Final concord between John Le ?Wyns, knight and his wife Elizabeth ?by Roger de Padley, Elizabeth's guardian, quer. and Thomas Dobyn parson of Westbridge and Richard Pygot parson of Pinxton defs concerning the manor [?manors] of Pinxton and Normanton and the advowsons of Pinxton and Normanton Churches, Easter ?17 Edward III [1343] Final concord between Thomas Foliambe [Foljambe]and Robert Lang[ham] quer. Thomas Stafford knight, Alice his wife, Nicholas Longford knight and Margery his wife defs concerning rents from the manor of Pinxton and Normanton. Ascension and Holy Trinity 14 Richard [II 1391] Deed between 1) Thomas Stafford, knight, lady Alice his wife, Nicholas (Nichell) de Longford knight and lady Margery his wife and 2) Thomas Foliambe [Foljambe] and Robert Langham concerning the manors of Pinxton and Normanton, Pentecost ?Richard II
1394 Nicholas de Langeford was on a list of sheriffs of Derbyshire and Nottingham. Dated November 11. [3]
1395 Nicholas de Longford was patron of the Pinxton Church. [4]
1397 Release from Johanna, widow of William Bakepuz, to Sir Walter Blount, knt., of lands in Boylestone. Witn. Nich. de Mountegomery, Nich. de Longeford, knts., and John Fitzherbert. Dat. Bartone, M. b. F. of St. Nicholas [6 Dec] 21 Ric. II. [1397]. (Woll. vi. II.) [5]
1408 "Grant from Margery de Longford, widow of Nicholas de Longford, knt., to the Abbot of Welbek [Welbeck, co. Notts.], the Prior of Thurgartone [Thurgarton, co. Notts.], John B[el]lasys, parson of Halwynfeld, Thomas Chelastone, parson of Normanton, and William Smalley, parson of Morton, of a pourparty of the manor of Pynkeston and Normanton, excepting the advowson of the church of Normanton, and a rent of £6 (with a clause of distraint), for a chaplain to pray for the soul of Alured Sulny, knt., in the church of Neutone Sulny, conceded by Nicholas de Longford and his wife. Witn. John Dercy, Thomas Chaworthe, knts., Henry Perpunt, etc. Dat. M. a. F. of St. Martin [n Nov.], 10 Hen. IV. [1408]. (Woll. x. 57.)" [6]
1424 "Grant from Richard de Radclyf, rector of Longford, Nicholas de Clayton, and William del Byrches of Ryssheom, to Ralph, son of the fourth Nicholas de Longford, knt., of the manors of Pynkeston and Norm[anton], Newton Sulny, and Blakewell, with lands in Baseford [Basford, co. Notts.]. Witn. Nicholas de Muntgomere, knt., Henry del Bothe, Richard Browne, etc. Dat. 28 June, 2 Hen. VI. [1424]. (Woll. x. 56.)" [7]
Nicholas Longford, Knight, sued Robert Legh, the elder, for the avowedson of Normanton. Nicholas Longford was shown as son of Nicholas, son of Ralph, son of Margaret Sulney, daughter of Alured Sulney, seised temp. E 3. [owner in the time of Edward the Third][De Banco. Hillary. 16. Ed. 4. m. 405 dorso.] [8]
Research Notes:
Notes:
Rosie states,
Nicholas Longford III was born around 1351 and was married by 1373 [41] - though probably well before then [42] - to Margery, daughter of Sir Alfred Sulney (d.c.1380) another of Gaunt's retainers, sister and coheir with Alice (d.1423), of Sir John Sulney,
who died in 1390. Alice was successively wife of Sir Thomas Stafford, Sir Robert Pype, William Spernore and John Mulsoe, but her only issue, Thomas Stafford, died in 1425, leaving a son and sole heir who died in boyhood. Alice appears to have sold most of her half share of the Sulney inheritance in 1421, with Pinxton and Normanton ending up in the possession of the Babingtons of Chilwell [43]. The Sulney family originated from Soligny, Normandy - hence the derivation of the name - and had established a cadet line in Newton Solney, and Broughton, Derbyshire in 1205 [44]. Owing to conflicting pedigrees it is often assumed that Margery was a member of the Appleby family. This confusion was caused by the fact that Sir Alfred Sulney (d.1346) had four daughters by Margaret, daughter of Sir John Trussell of Kibblestone – Ermentrude, wife of Sir Ralph Lathbury, Agnes wife of Sir Edmund Appleby, and two other daughters who were nuns [45]. The married daughters each received a moiety of Newton Solney as their inheritance. After the death of their father, Agnes and her husband agreed to quitclaim their interest in Newton Solney, in exchange for the manors of Bilby and Ranby in Nottinghamshire with their cousin Sir Alfred Sulney, and in the following year this was formalised by a final concord [46]. By a collusive assize of novel disseisin in 1380, Ermentrude Lathbury and her second husband, John Foucher, and Sir John Sulney "agreed between them to have manor of Newton Sulny valued and divided by 'four good and wise men', moiety assigned to Foucher and his wife to be granted by them to Sulney for their lives" [47], effecting a recovery of title in Newton Solney to Sulney possession [48]. However, after Sir Alfred's son, John, died in 1390 without issue, the Appleby family reneged on their agreement and claimed title in the manor. This was still being disputed in 1447 [49], leading to the assumption by later historians that to have a claim Agnes Appleby must have been a sister of John, and that Margaret was a daughter of Agnes.Nicholas continued family obligation as a knight … On 11 November 1394 he was appointed sheriff of Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire, but does not appear to have been active after this (Anon, 1963). In 1376 he had been co-heir of his great-uncle Edward le Boteler to a small inheritance (which comprised a quarter share in the manor of Willy, land in Great Harborough, Warwickshire, and a fourth turn in appointment to the advowson of the church of Weston Turville, (Buckinghamshire), and in 1390 Margery his wife came into her substantial inheritance, which consisted of a quarter share of the manors of Newton Solney and Blackwell, a moiety of the manors of Pinxton and Normanton, Derbyshire, lands in Basford, Nottinghamshire, and £4 6s 8d annual rent in Willingham in Orby, Lincolnshire. On 24 August 1390 these assets, excepting Normanton and Pinxton, were placed in the hands of their trustees Richard Scrope, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, John de Clinton and Philip de Okeover, knights, Oliver de Barton, John de Aston and John Shayle [50].
41 Nicholas IV, his son and heir, was born around 1373.
42 Nicholas witnessed a grant by feoffees to Alfred de Sulney in 1369 (Jeayes, 1906, No.1865).
43 Jeayes (1906) No.1873.
44 Jeayes (1906) No.1753. Ralph de Argouges gave Newton to Alfred (Alured), keeping the lands in Normandy for himself.
45 Derbyshire Record Office: Every of Egginton D5236/9/6.
46 Garratt (1985) No.841. In this agreement the Applebys quitclaimed their interest to Alfred, son of Alfred Sulney in their moiety of Newton Sulney for 100 marks of silver.
47 Derbyshire Record Office. Every of Eggington D5236/4/32
48 Derbyshire Record Office. Every of Eggington. D5236/9/8, D5236/4/33
49 When John Appleby paid a bond to Sir Nicholas Longford to abide by the award of John Portington, one of the Justices of the Common Bench in the dispute over the title of the fourth part of the manor of Newton Sulney. Derbyshire Record Office. Every of Eggington D5236/4/38.
50 Derbyshire Record Office. Every of Egginton. Ref 5236/9/13. Pinxton and Normanton were still being held by Thomas Foljambe and Robert Longham who did not release them to Margery and Alice until the following year (Jeayes, 1906, No.1867).
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