• General Notes

  Submitter(s):
  NORA KIDMAN - SHELTON SURNAME Microfilm: NONE
  MEDIEVAL FAMILIES PROJECT 19879 E COLUMBIA AVE AUROA CO Submission: AF94-103460
  USA 80013
  
  
  Notes from http://www.genealogy.com/users/s/h/e/Pam-Sheltonanderson/FILE/0001page.html
  
  Pam Shelton-Anderson 1739 East Albion Drive Sandy, UT 84092 United States pshelton@xmission.com
  
  
  Generation No. 1
  
  Nicholas de Shelton is the first Shelton in this family who appears in the records. In 1215, he purchased all the estate of Robert Maloysel and his son Robert in Weybred. He was at that time he was one of the barons rebelling against King John. Apparently, he was at the surrender of Framlingham Castle in Suffolk to that King, and after Nicholas submitted, he gave his son Robert Shelton as hostage for his future allegiance. Blomefield does not give a wife for him, but the Visitation says that he married Beatrice ---- of Hepworth, co Suffolk. Blomefield also says Nicholas de Shelton was lord of Shelton and also of Burnt Ilegh and while the former is unquestionable, the lordship of Burnt Illegh was not in the possession of the Shelton family until after the marriage of Nicholas?s son Ralph so this can not be accurate. There are no records for the death of Nicholas de Shelton.
  
  Sources:
  1. Visitation of Norfolk, ed Brig-General Bulwer; printed by Agas H Goose, Rampant Horse Street, Norwich 1895.
  [2] Blomefield, Francis, An Essay Toward a Topographic History of the County of Norfolk, (c 1805 Norwich, England), Vol 5 p 264
  

Details of Nicholas' family with Beatrice