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Kinard Bere was recorded as "Knight"

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Family


man Nicholas de Meinill‏‎ 1)
Born ‎6 Dec 1274‎ 2)
Died ‎26 Apr 1322‎, 47 years 1)

Notes: Nicholas was married to Christiana. Lucy is generally described as his concubine (source unclear).

Married/ Related
to:

woman Lucy de Thwenge‏‎ 3) 1)
Born ‎24 Mar 1279 Kilton Castle, Cleveland, Yorkshire, England‎ 4)

Child:

1.
man Nicholas de Meinill, 1st Baron of Meinill‏ 5)
Died ‎1341 5)

Notes: Illegitimate son of Nicholas and Lucy; hence his uncle John de Meinill being heir to his father.

Sources

1) Source: Chancery: Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series I, Edward II "Nicholas de Menill: Yorkshire... Aldewerk. The manor, held in fee tail, by the enfeoffment of Thomas de Wherleton, parson of the church of Rudby, to the said Nicholas and the heirs male of his body, with remainders to Nicholas, son of Lucy daughter of Robert de Tweng, and the heirs male of his body, and to the right heirs of the said Nicholas de Menill, by fine levied in the king’s court;... but five years before his death he enfeoffed thereof the said Nicholas son of Lucy according to the form of the fine aforesaid. John son of Nicholas de Menill, his brother, aged 40, is his next heir". Dated: 1322. External Link
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol6/pp171-178. Reference: C 134/68/19 (Data from direct source)
2) Source: Chancery: Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series I, Edward I "Nicholas de Meynill, alias de Meignyll, de Menil...The manor, which was formerly of the fee of Brug, held, jointly enfeoffed with Christiana his wife, who still survives, by the charter of John de Lithgraynis...Nicholas his son, aged 24 at the feast of St. Nicholas last, is his next heir. All held of the said Nicholas of his manor of Bouyngton in the Estryding."Dated: 1298. External Link
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol3/pp422-436. Reference: C 133/92/11 (Data from direct source)
3) Source: Chancery: Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series I, Edward II "Nicholas de Meynill alias de Menil... the petition of Nicholas, son of Lucy daughter of Robert de Twenge"Dated:1324. External Link
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol6/pp347-353. Reference: C 134/87/5 (Data from direct source)
4) Source: Chancery: Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series I, Edward I "Lucy, daughter and heir of Robert de Thweng alias de Tueng', and kinswoman and heir of Marmaduke de Thweng... The jury say that the said Lucy was born at Kilton in Clyveland on Friday before Palm Sunday, 7 Edw. I." Dated: 28 October 1294.. External Link
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol3/pp126-144. Reference: C 133/69/14 (Data from direct source)
5) Source: Chancery: Inquisitions Post Mortem, Series I, Edward III "Nicholas de Meynyl or de Menyll: Northumberland, Yorkshire... Elizabeth, daughter of the said Nicholas and Alesia, aged . . at the feast of St. Michael last, is his next heir." Dated: 20 November 1341. External Link
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/inquis-post-mortem/vol8/pp223-239. Reference: C 135/65/24 (Data from direct source)