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Sir Neil Loring ("Loryng", "Loringe" etc., Neel ''alias'' Nigel, Latin: ''Nigellus'') (c. 1320 – 18 March 1386), KG, was a medieval English soldier and diplomat and a founding member of the
Order of the Garter The Most Noble Order of the Garter is an order of chivalry founded by Edward III of England in 1348. It is the most senior order of knighthood in the British honours system, outranked in precedence only by the Victoria Cross and the George C ...
, established by
King Edward III Edward III (13 November 1312 – 21 June 1377), also known as Edward of Windsor before his accession, was King of England and Lord of Ireland from January 1327 until his death in 1377. He is noted for his military success and for restoring ro ...
in 1348. The central character in two historical novels by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for '' A Study in Scarlet'', the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Ho ...
, ''
Sir Nigel ''Sir Nigel'' is a historical novel set during the early phase of the Hundred Years' War, spanning the years 1350 to 1356. It was written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, first published in serial form during 1905–06 where it was ill ...
'' and ''
The White Company ''The White Company'' is a historical adventure by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, set during the Hundred Years' War. The story is set in England, France and Spain, in the years 1366 and 1367, against the background of the campaign of Edward ...
'', is loosely based on Neil Loring.


Origins

He was born in
Chalgrave Chalgrave is a civil parish in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England. The hamlets of Tebworth and Wingfield are in the west of the parish, with the church and manor in the east. Nearby places are Toddington (to the north) ...
,
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, the son of Roger Loring by his wife Cassandra Perrott.


Career

Loring fought at the
Battle of Sluys The Battle of Sluys (; ), also called the Battle of l'Écluse, was a naval battle fought on 24 June 1340 between England and France. It took place in the roadstead of the port of Sluys (French ''Écluse''), on a since silted-up inlet betwee ...
in 1340, following which he was
knight A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a head of state (including the Pope) or representative for service to the monarch, the church or the country, especially in a military capacity. Knighthood finds origins in the Gr ...
ed for his bravery and awarded a pension of £20 a year. In 1347 he was with King
Edward III Edward III (13 November 1312 – 21 June 1377), also known as Edward of Windsor before his accession, was King of England and Lord of Ireland from January 1327 until his death in 1377. He is noted for his military success and for restoring r ...
during the Siege of Calais, and the following year was invested as one of the founding
Knights of the Garter A knight is a person granted an honorary title of knighthood by a head of state (including the Pope) or representative for service to the monarch, the church or the country, especially in a military capacity. Knighthood finds origins in the Gr ...
. By 1351 Loring was
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to the
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, and a member of his council. He accompanied the prince to Aquitaine in 1353, and distinguished himself in the Poitiers Campaign, during which he was "appointed to be in attendance on the prince's person". He was sent back to England after the
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on 19 September 1356 to report news of the English victory. For his service to the prince he was given an annual pension of £83 6s 8d for life as well as lands in Wales. In November 1359 Loring was back in France accompanying Edward III on his military campaign that resulted in the
Treaty of Brétigny The Treaty of Brétigny was a treaty, drafted on 8 May 1360 and ratified on 24 October 1360, between Kings Edward III of England and John II of France. In retrospect, it is seen as having marked the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years' ...
, signed on 25 May 1360. He was appointed a guardian of the truce and one of the commissioners responsible for overseeing the transfer of lands as agreed in the treaty. Loring was with the Prince of Wales in Aquitaine in 1366, and fought in the prince's division at the
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on 3 April 1367. In 1369 he served under Sir
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at the Siege of Domme, and the following year in Poitou, under the
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.


Later life

Loring spent his latter days in retirement at his ancestral home in
Chalgrave Chalgrave is a civil parish in the Central Bedfordshire district of Bedfordshire, England. The hamlets of Tebworth and Wingfield are in the west of the parish, with the church and manor in the east. Nearby places are Toddington (to the north) ...
, where in 1365 he had received a royal licence to enclose a park. He died on 18 March 1386, and according to Leland was buried in the Church of the Black Canons at
Dunstable Dunstable ( ) is a market town and civil parishes in England, civil parish in Bedfordshire, England, east of the Chiltern Hills, north of London. There are several steep chalk escarpments, most noticeable when approaching Dunstable from the ...
. The central character of Sir Nigel Loring in two historical novels by
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) was a British writer and physician. He created the character Sherlock Holmes in 1887 for '' A Study in Scarlet'', the first of four novels and fifty-six short stories about Ho ...
 – ''
Sir Nigel ''Sir Nigel'' is a historical novel set during the early phase of the Hundred Years' War, spanning the years 1350 to 1356. It was written by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, first published in serial form during 1905–06 where it was ill ...
'' and ''
The White Company ''The White Company'' is a historical adventure by British writer Arthur Conan Doyle, set during the Hundred Years' War. The story is set in England, France and Spain, in the years 1366 and 1367, against the background of the campaign of Edward ...
'' – is loosely based on Neil Loring.


Benefactions

Loring was the founder of a
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in Chalgrave church. In the list of Benefactors to St. Albans Abbey, Sir Nigel is introduced as the donor of 10 marks and depicted as an old man with a red cap or hood on his head, wearing red shoes, covered with a white robe powdered with Garters, and holding a purse in his left hand.


Marriage and children

He married Margaret de Beaupel, the daughter, and apparently the heiress, of Ralph de Beaupel whose home was the sub-manor of Beaupel, in the parish of
Knowstone Knowstone is a village and civil parish situated in the North Devon district of Devon, England, halfway between the Mid Devon town of Tiverton, Devon and the North Devon town of South Molton. The hamlet of East Knowstone lies due east of the vi ...
, North Devon. There exists today about 1 mile SW of Knowstone village the still-important farmhouse called "Beaple's Barton", bordered to the south by Beaple's Moor and to the north by Beaple's Wood. He appears in ancient records as "Nele Loring of Knowston-Beaupell". By marriage he also came to hold the manor of
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, 2 miles east of
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and 16 miles west of Knowstone. They had two daughters and co-heiresses: *Isabel Loring (died 21 August 1400) who married twice: **Firstly at some time before 1382, as his second wife, to Sir William Cogan,
feudal baron of Bampton The feudal barony of Bampton was one of eight feudal baronies in Devonshire which existed during the mediaeval era, and had its ''caput'' at Bampton Castle within the manor of Bampton. Descent Domesday Book The Domesday Book of 1086 lists ' ...
. She bore him the following children: ***John Cogan (died 1382), who died as a minor in the wardship of the king. His heiress was his sister Elizabeth Cogan. ***Elizabeth Cogan, heiress of her brother John Cogan (died 1382), the wife of Fulk IX FitzWarin, 5th Baron FitzWarin (1362–1391), who from his mother Margaret Audley, 3rd daughter and co-heiress of
James Audley, 2nd Baron Audley James Audley, 2nd Baron Audley (8 January 1312/13 – 1 April 1386) of Heighley Castle, Staffordshire, was an English peer. He was the son and heir of Nicholas Audley, 1st Baron Audley (1289–1316) by his wife Joan Martin (died Feb. 1320 / 1 ...
(died 1386),
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, Devon, was the heir to the manor of
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, Devon, which had become the later seat of the feudal barons of Barnstaple. **Secondly, in about 1383, to
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(1356–1406)Cokayne, ''
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'', new edition, Vol. 6, p. 316
of
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in the manor of
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in
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,
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. Isabel's eldest son by her second marriage was
John Harington, 4th Baron Harington John Harington, 4th Baron Harington (1384 – 11 April 1418) was an English nobleman who inherited the title of Baron Harington of Aldingham in Furness, Lancashire. He was the son of Robert Harington, 3rd Baron Harington and Isabella Loring, daught ...
(1384–1418), whose alabaster effigy exists in the
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, Somerset. Her second son was William Harington, 5th Baron Harington (1390–1458), who succeeded his childless elder brother in the title, married Margaret Hill but died without male children. *Margaret Loring, the wife of Thomas Pevyre of Bedfordshire by whom she had children.


References


Further reading

*Thomas Johnes, ''Sir John Froissart's chronicles of England, France, Spain, and the adjoining countries: from the latter part of the reign of Edward II. to the coronation of Henry IV'', Volume 3, Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805
p. 123
("see his life in Ashmole").

in 00The Battle Abbey Roll, with some account of the Norman lineages by the Duchess of Cleveland'', John Murray, London, 1889

by Michael A. Linton, 2007).


External links

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