g.1. Sir Nicholas WORTLEY, geb. c. 1277

g.1.  Sir Nicholas, geb. c. 1277 x Sibella NN.  She married 2ndly to Sir Hardolf Wastneys, oorl. 1325.   (Foster, Joseph:  Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. 2, West Riding. London. 1874)

Nicholas was die seun van Nicholas Wortley en NN de Horbury.

 (Foster, Joseph:  Pedigrees of the County Families of Yorkshire, Vol. 2, West Riding. London. 1874)
Sir Nicholas het gedurende die regeringstyd van Koning Edward I (r.1272-1307) en Koning Edward II (r.1307-1327) geleef.  In die eerste dekades van die 14de eeu het Yorkshire onder ‘n reeks swak oeste, vee siektes en die plundering van die Skotse leer gely.  Koning Edward I is op Carlisle, tydens ‘n veldtog na Skotland, op 7 Julie 1307 dood.  Koning Edward II, sy seun, het vanaf 1307 regeer.  Edward II het homself met gunstelinge omring en die baronne het ontevrede geraak en gerebelleer.  Hulle het probeer het om sy mag te beperk met die wette van 1311.  (The official website of the British Monarchy)  “From 1311, the Northern counties were greatly harassed by Scottish incursions, wars, and plagues. (midgleywebpages.com/knights)  Koning Edward II se inval van Skotland van 1314 om opstand te onderdruk, het tot die nederlaag by Bannockburn gelei. (Royal family history)   Hierdie inval, tesame met groot hoeveelhede skuld het vir Edward II baie ongewild gemaak.  (The official website of the British Monarchy)  In die jare 1315-1322 het hongersnood uitgebreek.  (Lambert, Tim:  A brief history of Yorkshire England.  http://www.localhistories.org/yorkshire.html)  All the immediate neighbourhood from Skipton to Bradford was ransacked in 1316 by bands of red-shanked robbers from Scotland, who not content with robbing and murdering the inhabitants, maliciously burnt what they could not carry away.  In that year a soldier had to be provided by each township to join the army against Scotland, but the failure at Bannockburn was but the beginning of distress. Repeated depredations were followed by a great famine, when children were kidnapped and eaten." (midgleywebpages.com/knights)  Nie eers Edward II se oorwinning van die burgeroorlog van 1321-2, en die instelling van die 1326 ordonansie (a protectionist measure which set up compulsory markets or staples in English, Welsh and Irish towns for the wool trade) kon lei tot ‘n kompromie tussen die koning en die adelikes nie.  (The official website of the British Monarchy)  1323- King Edward II besoek baie dele van Yorkshire, Lancashire, die Midlands en Nottingham, veral die manors wat voormalig deur die rebelle gehou is.  (midgleywebpages.com/knights)

(Foster, Joseph, Hon. M.A. Oxon:  Some feudal coats of arms, London, 1902)

Verskeie lords het markte en fairs in die dertiende en vroeë veertiende eeue begin,  in ‘n tyd toe die bevolking uitgebrei het en kommersiële geleenthede belowend was.   (Hey, David:  A History of Penistone and District. Barnsley. 2002)  Fairs where the local farmers could sell livestock, crops and wares.  Die mark was 'n plek waar goedere gekoop en verkoop is, maar dit was ook 'n forum vir die uitruil van nuus, menings en skindernuus,  and a place where condemned fornicators might be required to do public penance.  (Cooper, Stephen:  Those was good lads - a history of tudor Rotherham http://www.chivalryandwar.co.uk/Resource/TUDOR.pdf)

The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal .  http://www.mocavo.com/The-Yorkshire-Archaeological-Journal-Volume-8/953026/38#38

Met sy dood in 1307 het Sir William le Fleming die manor of Wath in chief gehou en die manor of Wortley, is vanaf hom gehou deur Nicholas de Wortley.  (Farrer, William & Clay, Charles Travis, eds: Early Yorkshire Charters:  Volume 7, The Honour of Skipton. 1947)

In 1307, het die dorp Wortley 'n Royal Charter  ontvang om 'n weeklikse mark op Donderdae en 'n jaarlikse drie-dae lange fair  met Pinkster te hou.  (Wortley, South Yorkshire.  http://www.cyclopaedia.fr/wiki/Wortley,_South_Yorkshire)

Die volgende brief is in St Leonard's Church in Wortley:

April 12, 1307.  Grant to Nicholas de Wortleye, and his heirs a a weekly market on Thursdays at the manor of Wortleye Co York;  and of a yearly fair there on the vigil, the feast and the morrow of Whitsunday;  grant also of the free warren in all their demesne lands in Shitlington, Co York.
By P.S. Calender of Charter rolls Edward I Edward Ii AD 1300 - 1326 (Translation)

Dit was op 12 April 1307, terwyl koning Edward I by Carlisle was, dat hy free warren aan Nicholas de Wortley in al die grond by Sitlington wat in kroonbesit was, sowel as ‘n weeklike mark en jaarlikse kermis by die manor of Wortley, Yorks gegee het.  (Midgley near Wakefield.  (http://www.midgleywebpages.com/midgleyeast.html)

Place name
Date of inception of market
The date of the charter, grant or first recorded mention of the market
Date of inception of fair
The date of the charter, grant or first recorded mention of the fair
1334 Lay Subsidy
The valuation of the town in the Lay Subsidy of 1334
Wortley
1307
1307
21
('Yorkshire', in Gazetteer of Markets and Fairs in England and Wales To 1516, ed. Samantha Letters (Kew, 2005)

As gevolg van die Black Death van 1348-50 en ander plae wat die bevolking grootlike verminder het, (and trade contracted severely) het Hooton Pagnell, Braithwell, Wortley en Wath-upon-Dearne soos ander South Yorkshire villages hulle markte en fairs gedurende die laat Middeleeue verloor.  (Hey, David:  A History of Penistone and District. Barnsley. 2002)

(The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal.  http://www.mocavo.com/The-Yorkshire-Archaeological-Journal-Volume-8/953026/38#38)

The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal.  http://www.mocavo.com/The-Yorkshire-Archaeological-Journal-Volume-8/953026/38#38

Na Sir Nicholas Wortley se dood is Sibilla met Sir Hardolf Wastneys getroud.

The name of Wasteneys, or Gasteneys, is found among the list of Normans of distinction, who came over with the Conqueror.  The first record of this name is Sir Philip de Gaslencys, who married Amphelis, daughter and coheiress of Robert, son of Hardulph, by Diva, daughter and heir of Robert, son of Walter de Morley. In 1166 William de Wasteneys is stated to hold two knights fees, and Galfridus, or Jeffrey, one and a half knights fees, in the barony of Stafford. This William was son of Sir Philip, and it is probable that Jeffrey was his younger brother, and that the elder held lands in Colton, and the younger in Tixall. (Rotherham.co.uk)  The first we find mentioned in the pedigree is Sir Hardulf Gasteneys, Knt, who had two wives, first Ravenilda and second Bertreia.  Sir Robert Gasteneys, Knt, his son was father of Sir Philip, who by Amphelis daughter and coheir of Sir Robert Morley, knt had issue, Sir William, fater of Sir William who had two sons, both Williams and both knights; of the youngest sir William the immediate ancestor of this family. Sir Hardolph de Wastneis, Knt, his eldest son , had a writ directed to him, 9 Edw. III enjoining him among others to come in person of the west riding of Yorkshire.  He had two wives, first, the daughter of Lexbourne, second, Sibill, but leaving no issue by either of them.  (Collins, Arthur:  The English Baronetage: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the English Baronets, Now Existing: Their Descents, Marriages, and Issues; Memorable Actions, Both in War, and Peace; Religious and Charitable Donations; Deaths, Places of Burial and Monumental Iiscriptions [sic], Vol 1.  London. 1741)  Ook uit hierdie beskrywing word geen van vir Sibella aangegee nie.

(Marshall, George William, LL.M. ed.:  The Visitation of the county of Nottingham in the years 1569 and 1614, with many other descents of the same county. London 1871)

Kinders:

h.1.  Sir Nicholas, geb. 1297will proved 1 December 1347.  x c. 1317, Henderskerf, Yorkshire met Lucy GREYSTOKE,  geb. c. 1300, d.v. Sir. Ralph FitzWilliam, 1st Lord FitzWilliam  en Margery de Bolbec.  Sister of lord Greystroke Baron of Henderskerf