Nigel de Stafford

✓ Nigel de Stafford, Domesday tenant (1086) of nine manors and two sokes in Derbyshire and holdings in Staffordshire, Leicestershire and Warwickshire, partly in chief and partly under Henry de Ferrers; benefactor of Elstow nunnery ('cum filia sua') and of St Albans (church of Norton juxta Twycross); perhaps living c.1115. His heirs were the Gresleys (a 1224 concord shows Geoffrey de Gresley heir of Nigel de Stafford). TOP: Madan calls him 'the great crux of the Gresley pedigree'. Earlier writers (Dugdale, Eyton) made him a son of Roger I de Tosny and brother of Robert de Stafford; Madan: 'There is no evidence whatever of this, and chronological probabilities are against it.' Madan's own suggestion that he was a son of Robert de Stafford (I102074) is 'more or less probable conjecture' - NOT wired. Wife unknown, 'even traditionally'. Source: Falconer Madan, The Gresleys of Drakelowe (Oxford, 1899; archive.org The_Gresleys_of_Drakelowe), chs. II-III and pedigrees, from the Gresley Chartulary, Gresley Charters, Liber Niger and Salt Society records; read 2 Nov 2026. [DIRECT ANCESTOR OF THE COMPILER: flag added 2 Nov 2026 by walking the tree from Aynsley, so that this marker is reliable and can be searched.]