c.1. Sir Nicholas, geb. c.
1194 x 1213, Wortley, Yorkshire met Dionysia de NEWMARCH, d.v. Ralph de Newmarch en Letitia
de Chevercourt.
Nicholas was die seun van Nicholas Wortley en NN.
(Foster, Joseph: Pedigrees of the County
Families of Yorkshire, Vol. 2, West Riding. London. 1874)
Hierdie Sir Nicholas de Wortley het in Koning John
(r.1199-1216), opgevolg deur Koning Henry III (r.1216-1272) se regeringstyd
geleef. Koning Henry III het vir koning John in 1216 op die ouderdom van
9 opgevolg, maar die koninklike magte is deur ‘n regency (deur twee Franse adelikes, Peter des
Roches en Peter des Rivaux) uitgeoefen, totdat die Engelse baronne hulle
uitgedryf het en so koning Henry se regeringstyd laat begin het. (Royal
family history http://www.britroyals.com/kings.asp?id=henry3) By 1227, when he assumed power from
his regent, order had been restored, based on his acceptance of Magna Carta.
(http://www.royal.gov.uk/historyofthemonarchy/
kingsandqueensofengland/theplantagenets/henryiii.aspx)
Bernard de Novo Mercatu,
Neofmarche, or Newmarch, accompanied William the Conqueror on his invading
England, a.d.1066, some of the Welsh Pedigrees speaking of him as William’s
half-brother. Bernard de Newmarch fought at Hastings. Ralph de
Newmarch son of Bernard, probably came to England with his father A.D. 1066
though he must have been quite a young man at that time. He seems to have
settled at Bentley-cum-Arksey in Yorkshire, and to have been the companion of
Roger de Busli, founder of the Honour of Tickhill in that county, of which
Honour Ralph and his descendants held four knight’s fees in Arksey. Among
his possessions in the county of York were Bentley-cum Arksey, near Doncaster,
where he had his mansion, Bolton, Wymersley, and Barnby-upon-Don, to the
rectory of which the Newmarches presented from the earliest period to which the
records of the see of York extent down to the Reign of Edward III. Adam
de Newmarch, who succeeded Ralph married the Lady Adelina of Whatton,
Notts. His principal seats, were at Bentley and Whatton, which descended
to his eldest son Henry, while the estates in the West descended, or were given
up to his youngest son, Adam, and his issue. William de Newmarche had custody
of the lands of Adam, (probably a minor), in 7 Hen II (1161), William was
the brother of Henry. William married Isabel by whom he had issue Ralph,
who had lands at Newcastle upon-Tyne (1188) and a Jordan de Newmarche.
(Newmarch, George Frederick & Newmarch, Charles Henry:
The Newmarch pedigree http://books.google.com.au/books?id=1h8IAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=chevercourt&f=false) Arms: gules three fusils in fess or
(a fess deeply indented). There is a question that there may have been five
fusils or indents. An addition may have included an alternate with sable a lion
rampant argent, following the arms of their overlords, the De Laci's.
(Heraldry of some Yorkshire Families http://www.midgleywebpages.com/westyorksarms.html)
(Foster, Joseph, Hon. M.A. Oxon: Some feudal coats of arms. London. 1902)
(http://books.google.com.au/books?id=1h8IAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q=chevercourt&f=false)
Die huwelik tussen Nicholas de
Wortley en Dionysia de Newmarch het tot gevolg gehad dat die Hardwick eiendom
bygekom het. The Wortley family gained much of their prestige through marriage alliances which gained them land and positions of status that they would not have been able to achieve on their own. The second Nicholas de Wortley married Dionysia de Newmarch through which came the Hardwick property. Although the land was not the Wortleys to begin with, English Common Law gave all lands belonging to the wife’s family to the husband. This was the easiest way to claim land without having to show force and through marriage men could also form alliances if a war broke out in the area. Once the Wortley family claimed these lands, they were able to move up in the ranks to gain power in government later in their family’s history. (https://udspace.udel.edu/bitstream/handle/19716/17153/Worthley%2C%20Nicole.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y)
Hardwick is naby Aston. (Gatty, Alfred, rev., D.D.
vicar of Ecclesfield, and sub, dean of York: Wortley & the Wortleys -
a lecture delivered before the Sheffield literary and philosophical society
also the Rotherham literary and scientific society, 1877, Sheffield) Hardwick,
a farm-house in the township of Aston with Aughton, and parish of Aston, 4
miles SE. of Rotherham, 8 from Sheffield. (http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/WRY/Aston/)
Yorkshire was voorspoedig in die 12de en 13de eeue en baie nuwe dorpe het ontstaan. Dit sluit Barnsley, Doncaster, Hull, Leeds, Northallerton, Pontefract, Richmond, Scarborough en Sheffield in. (A brief history of Yorkshire, England. http://www.localhistories.org/yorkshire.html)
In 1218
is Nicholas ‘n getuie by ‘n Gift by Henry son of John de Wortley to
Thomas son of Matthew de Horbury of half a carucate of land in Bilham (6½
miles WNW of Doncaster), at the
rate of 3 carucates to a knight’s fee;
for 15 marks given beforehand.
Hiis testibus, Randulfo de Nouo Marcato, Willelmo die Morhing, Willelmo
de Treton, Nicholao de Wrtelay, Willelmo de Hoton, Hugone de Bileham, Matheo de
Scepeley, Ada de Shiligtin, Jordano de Heton, Willelmo de Livet, Willelmo filio
Thome, Thoma filio Willelmi de Horbiry, et multis aliis. (Early Yorkshire Charters: Volume 8, The
Honour of Warenne By William Farrer,
Charles Travis Clay) Bilham, a township in Hooton-Pagnell parish,
W. R. Yorkshire; 6½ miles WNW of Donaster.
(http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/11584)
The Don salutes another place near Wortley, call’d Wentworth,Wentworth. from which many Gentry both in this County and elsewhere, as also the Barons of Wentworth, have deriv’d their name and original. Next, the Done arrives at Sheafield, Sheafield. remarkable, … for a strong old Castle, which has descended by inheritance from the Lovetofts, the Lords Furnival, and Nevil Lord Furnival, to the most honourable the Talbots, Earls of Shrewsbury. (Camden, William: Britannia. 845)
Die gemeentes van Sheffield en Ecclesfield, insluitend die chapelry van Bradfield, het die Manor of Hallamshire gevorm. (A personal story from John Huges – The Blue Boar Inn) Gerard de Furnival (c 1175-1219) was ‘n Normandiese knight en die lord van Hallamshire en Worksop.
(Steepest Sheffield hill. http://www.robinhoodloxley.net/mycustompage0039.htm )
Teen die tyd wat Gerard de Furnival met die ergenaam van De Lovetot getrou het, het daar aansienlike veranderinge op Sheffield plaasgevind. That entire proprietorship which the Lovetots enjoyed in Hallamshire, broken only by the claim of the church on the tenth of the produce, did not descend to the Furnivals. Before Maud de Lovetot had passed off the stage, we find two other families had sprung up within the parish possessing extensive influence, large estates and manorial privileges as subinfeudations of the great baron of Sheffield castle, the De Ecclesalls and the De Mounteneys. As teken van hul afhanklikheid teenoor De Furnival en sodat hulle herken kon word op die slagveld as diegene wat onder sy vaandel veg, het die Ecclesalls en Mounteneys dieselfde ontwerp op hul skilde, as op die skild van De Furnival gehad. Twee ander families het saam met hulle, die eer en die gevaar, om die manne van Hallamshire onder die vaandels van De Furnival te lei, gedeel. Hulle was die De Wadsleys en die De Wortleys en soos die twee wat reeds genoem is, het hulle ook die skild van De Furnival as hul kenteken aanvaar, met die verskil van drie mantelskulp doppe, en drie besante op die skuinsband. (Hunter, Joseph: The History and Topography of the Parish of Sheffield : with Historical and Descriptive Notices of the Parishes of Ecclesfield, Hansworth, Treeton and Whiston, and of the Chapelry of Bradfield. London. 1819. bl. 36)
The first sign of the Wortleys holding social significance is when they first adopted their coat of armor. They held the charter for this coat starting in 1246 which gave them all the rights associated with the coats and corporate rights. One of these included the law that anyone who entered the land, “without the license of Nicholas de Wortley would accrue a fine of £10. Coats of arms are important among the nobility because it is a form of a title that can be inherited by the younger son to inherit aristocratic status. This is extremely important if you are not the eldest son in a family because technically you have no claim to lands that your family owns unless other agreements had been made. The younger children would then be forced to buy their own land and get their own positions of power. So to be able to inherit at least the coat of arms allows them the right to use the family name to get what they need to make a name for themselves. Coats of arms could be created for new families without any formal sanctions until 1689 when new arms were required to have formal authorization and the assumption of any coats of arms was outlawed. (https://udspace.udel.edu/bitstream/handle/19716/17153/Worthley%2C%20Nicole.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y)
The first sign of the Wortleys holding social significance is when they first adopted their coat of armor. They held the charter for this coat starting in 1246 which gave them all the rights associated with the coats and corporate rights. One of these included the law that anyone who entered the land, “without the license of Nicholas de Wortley would accrue a fine of £10. Coats of arms are important among the nobility because it is a form of a title that can be inherited by the younger son to inherit aristocratic status. This is extremely important if you are not the eldest son in a family because technically you have no claim to lands that your family owns unless other agreements had been made. The younger children would then be forced to buy their own land and get their own positions of power. So to be able to inherit at least the coat of arms allows them the right to use the family name to get what they need to make a name for themselves. Coats of arms could be created for new families without any formal sanctions until 1689 when new arms were required to have formal authorization and the assumption of any coats of arms was outlawed. (https://udspace.udel.edu/bitstream/handle/19716/17153/Worthley%2C%20Nicole.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y)
Kinders:
d.1. Sir Nicholas, geb. c. 1214, x c. 1234, met Isabel HERON, geb. c. 1216 Ford, Northumberland, Engeland d.v. William Heron of Ford, Northumberland en Christiana, daughter and Heiress of Roger de Notton. 1st wife.
