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According to Rosie, Nicholas was not the Lord of the manors (although he apparently held Cottingham), but his first cousin Eustace was the senior heir of the Stuteville estates. However Nicholas' daughter Joan inherited everything when Eustace died without issue in 1241.

The following is excerpted from a post to SGM, 7 Sep 2002, by Rosie Bevan:

From: 'Rosie Bevan' (rbevan@paradise.net.nz)
Subject: Stuteville of Cottingham
Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval
Date: 2002-09-07 03:43:36 PST

5. NICHOLAS II de Stuteville. Recorded in the Pipe Roll at Michaelmas 1209 as Nicholas son of Nicholas. After the death of his father he administered the inheritance of his nephew Eustace. Married Dervorguilla, da. of Roland of Galloway, who brought an interest in Whissendine, Rutland to the family in frank marriage. Nicholas died shortly before 19 October 1233 at the priory of St Andrew, York. On 19 November 1233 the sheriff of York was ordered to take his lands which had belonged to him,including the manor of Cottingham, and to assign to Hugh Wake and Joan his wife, Nicholas' elder daughter and heir her reasonable share and seisin, and similarly to William Mastac the king's kinsman, to whom the king had given the marriage of Margaret, his other daughter and heir.

Issue
- Joan. Eventually sole heir of her father, she was married to Hugh Wake before 29 May 1229 when Hugh was pardoned for having married her without the king' licence. On the death of her cousin Eustace de Stuteville in 1241, and having outlived her sister, she was sole heir to the Stuteville inheritance comprising Cottingham, Buttercrambe and Kirby Moorside (combined annual value of L660 p.a. in 1282) and the honours of Liddell Strength and Rosedale. Hugh Wake died on crusade in 1241 and on 2 Jan 1242 the king granted to Joan his widow the custody of all the lands to hold until the lawful age of the heirs, together with their marriage and licence to marry at pleasure, for a fine of 10,000 marks. Before Michaelmas 1244 she married Hugh Bigod, Chief Justiciar of England, by whom she was the mother of Roger Bigod who succeeded as earl of Norfolk in 1270. Joan died shortly before 6 April 1276, her heir being her son Sir Baldwin Wake. By Hugh Wake, Joan also had Nicholas, Hugh and possibly Isabel.

- Margaret. Married to William Mastac. She died s.p. shortly before 13 November 1235.
[EYC ix p. 18-23 ; Sanders, Baronies p. 129 ; William Brown, Yorkshire Inquisitions, v.1 p.237-253 ; CP XII/2 p.299]

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