Property Nisbet and family de Soulis

Date: [unknown] [unknown]
Location: Scotland
Surname/tag: Nisbet Soulis Soules Sules

The de Soulis family and Nisbet Property connections

1172 SOULIS, an ancient surname,The first of the name was Ranulph de Sules, an Anglo-Saxon baron of Northamptonshire, who accompanied David I. into Scotland, and received from him a grant of lands in Liddesdale, with the manor of Nisbet in Teviotdale,as well as other lands in East Lothian. He was butler to king David I. and died between 1165 and 11 Nov. 1172  RANULPH [I] de Soulis (-after [1165/70]).  "Henrico comite filio meo…Rondulfo de Sules…" witnessed the undated charter under which David I King of Scotland donated "Mortlmweit" {Morthwait} to Newbattle abbey[1050].  "Willielmi de Haya" donated "terrarum de Ederpolls" to Cupar abbey, for the souls of "regis Malcolmi et Domini mei regis Willelmi et…Domini Ranulphi de Sules avunculi mei", by undated charter[1051].  "Ranulphus de Sules pincerna Regis Scott" donated "unam carucatam terre in Gillemuriston" to Newbattle abbey by undated charter[1052], dated to [1165/70] by Balfour Paul[1053], confirmed by a charter of William King of Scotland[1054]. 

1299 Sir Ranulph de Nisbet who in 1299 was presented by the Bishop of Durham to the living of St. Mary Magdalene's hospital (This Sir Ranulph de Nisbet is not related to Nisbet of that Ilk according to Robert Chancellor Nesbitt) Sir Ranulph de Nisbet was probably descended/related to Ranulph de Sules who accompanied  King David I into Scotland who was granted the manor of Nisbet in Teviotdale and therefore became ---de Nisbet instead of de Sules

1320 The barony of Nisbet was subsequently the property of William Soulis, on whose forfeiture in 1320 King Robert Bruce granted it to Robert Stewart, the son and heir of Walter, afterwards King Robert II. ^[1]

also Robert (Bruce) de Brus (1303-bef.1332) His father provided him with an annual allowance and granted him the lands of Liddisdale which had been forfeited by de Soulis. ^[2]

22 Jul 1376 Westminister. Grant to John Kerre, in recompence of 20 marks yearly in Scotland which he has lost by occasion of the present truce with those of Scotland of the keeping of the manor of Nesebit in Tevidale during the nonage of the heir of John, late earl of Pembroke, who held in chief; so that he keep it without waste and do and sustain the services and charges incumbent thereon ^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ In the reign of King David I. the lands and barony of Nisbet belonged either to that monarch or to the earl Gospatrick, Morton's Mon. Annals, p. 55 Robertson's Index, p. 22, n. 3 the latter of whom seems to have granted to the canons of Jedburgh a ploughgate and a half in that territory. Robertson's Index, p. 22, no. 3 The barony was subsequently the property of William Soulis, on whose forfeiture in 1320 King Robert Bruce granted it to Robert Stewart, the son and heir of Walter, afterwards King Robert II. Robertson's Index, p. 10, no. 13, p. 21, no. 22 Bannatyne Club > No. 100, 1851-1855 - Origines parochiales Scotiae > Volume 1 (438) Page 388
2. ↑ Burnett, George (ed). Rotuli Scaccarii Regum Scotorum. The Exchequer Rolls of Scotland. Edinburgh: H.M. General Register House (1878), vol. 1, p. cxxix.
3. ↑ Calendar of Patent Rolls Edward III, vol. 16, p. 306