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Nicholas de Handlo, later Nicholas Burnell
Dates: died 1382
Heir of the Burnell inheritance through Maud Burnell and Sir John de Handlo; he adopted the Burnell name and held Abdon at his death.
View historical person →Nicholas de Lovayne
Dates: flourished 1365–1368; other dates not established
Received Fulk Harwode's right in Albury in 1365–1368. No additional biography is established by the consulted manor sources.
View historical person →Nicholas de Mauvesin
Dates: 12th century
Landholder identified in the supplied record as acquiring and then selling the lordship of Stallington circa 1149.
View historical person →Nicholas de Meynell, Lord of Whorlton, life tenant of Aislaby under the 1320-1321 conveyance
Dates: Died 26 April 1322
A medieval Yorkshire landholder associated with Whorlton and the Meynell family. The cited conveyance granted him Aislaby for life, with a remainder to his son by Lucy de…
View historical person →Nicholas de Stuteville, Lord of the Barony of Liddel
Dates: floruit 1174–1220
A member of the Stuteville family recorded as holding the Barony of Liddel in 1174 and later charged for his ransom in the fifth year of Henry III.
View historical person →Nicholas de Verdon, Baron of the Verdon estates
Dates: died 1231
Verdon baron and successor to Bertram de Verdon. He participated in the Barons' rebellion of 1216, suffered confiscation of his estates, and recovered them after Henry III's accession.
View historical person →Nicholas Fitzwilliam, Yorkshire landholder, member of the Fitzwilliam family
Dates: floruit 15th century
A Fitzwilliam landholder associated with Adwick in 1459, when he obtained a licence for an oratory at his house there.
View historical person →Nicholas Fitzwilliam of Adwick, Yorkshire gentleman, associated with Adwick le Street
Dates: died 1460
Nicholas Fitzwilliam was a Yorkshire gentleman associated with Adwick le Street and was returned to Parliament for a Yorkshire constituency. He is recorded in local historical material as…
View historical person →Nicholas Hurt of Castern, Esquire of Castern, Staffordshire
Dates: Circa 1649-1711
Nicholas Hurt was a Staffordshire landowner of Castern who married Elizabeth Lowe in 1690 and thereby acquired the Alderwasley estate and manor.
View historical person →Nicholas Hyde, Sir Nicholas Hyde, 1st Baronet of Aldbury according to later genealogical and title summaries, Baronet
Dates: died 1625
Hyde family holder for whose use the manor was conveyed by feoffees in 1590; he succeeded formally after Robert Hyde's death in 1607.
View historical person →Nicholas le French
Dates: flourished 14th century; other dates not established
Associated with the later French interest in Albury and recorded as granting the manor for an eight-year term to Fulk Harwode.
View historical person →Nicholas Leigh, Nicholas Leigh of Addington, gentleman
Dates: died 1565
Nicholas Leigh was the Tudor-era Leigh landholder associated with Addington. In 1544 he negotiated with Henry VIII for former religious-house properties at Addington, including Addington Rectory and Addington…
View historical person →Nicholas Luke, Baron of the Exchequer, purchaser of one moiety of Abbotsley in 1561
Dates: Active sixteenth century
A sixteenth-century legal official who, according to the Victoria County History, purchased one moiety of Abbotsley from Francis Russell, Earl of Bedford, in 1561.
View historical person →Nicholas Overton
Dates: floruit 1590–1604
Son and successor of Thomas Overton; he held Whateley of Queen Elizabeth for a fortieth part of a knight's fee before the 1604 settlement on his son Thomas…
View historical person →Nicholas Payne, Lord of Motcombe
Dates: fl. 1454
Holder of the Lordship of Motcombe by 1454; he inherited it from his father Richard Payne and later sold it to John Kaylway.
View historical person →Nicholas Remkin
Dates: flourished in the early fifteenth century
Joint holder of Albans and Blackpitts with John Tutsham. His only daughter Alice inherited his moiety and carried it by marriage to Thomas Rolfe.
View historical person →Nicholas Sparry
Dates: fl. 16th century
Purchaser of Bedcote from Sir Thomas Jervis before its later passage to the Lyttleton family.
View historical person →Nicholas Tufton, 1st Earl of Thanet, holder of Eytchden, English landowner, later 1st Earl of Thanet, Baron Tufton, 6th Baron Tufton
Dates: 1578–1631
English nobleman of the Tufton family who acquired Eytchden during the reign of James I.
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