Nicholas le Chaundeler

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BIOGRAPHY: At an inquisition take by Nicholas Jordan, and others, byvirtue of a writ tested at Canterbury, 10 Mardh, 36 Henry III (1252), itwas stated upon oath that the land of Tryenestone (Trehanston) (in RomceyMarsh, in the county of Kent), which the brethren of the King's Hospitalof Ospring have of the king's bailiwick, was, immediately after theConquest of England, given to a certain knight name Tryan. AfterwardsAlberic de Marinis held it at the pleasure of 'our lord, the King Henrythat now is' (Henry III). And...because the said Alberic ill-treated thetenants, the king took away from him the said land, and conferred it onWalter de Burgo; and, after Walter de Burgo, our lord the king gave it toThomas de Normanvill, to hold during pleasure, and after the said Thomas,Nicholas de Chandeler helt it, of the gift of our lord the king, duringpleasure, and afterwards our lord the king conferred it upon Jordan deMont Martini, to hold during pleasure; and after the said Jordan our lordthe conferred it on the brethren of his hospital of Ospreing, who stillhold it. The said land is work yearly, in rents and other issues of land,100 shillings.

BIOGRAPHY: "Nicholas de [le] Chandeler, notwithstanding the regrant ofTrehanston, remained in favour with the crown. Perhaps the king rewardedhim with other lands on the borders of Wiltshire and Goucestershire. Atany rate we afterwards find him in this neighborhood. It seems probablethat he as with Prince Edward at the battle of Evesham, at which Simon deMontfort was signally defeated, for 25 Apr, 1 Edward I (1271-72), thereis an order to the Treasurer of the Exchequier to pay this Nicholas LeChaundeler, for faithful services, an annuity for life by the hands ofthe Sheriff of Gloucester (Close Roll, 1 Edward I)."

BIOGRAPHY: "The ancestry of Nicholas le Chaundeler, who, as we have seen,removed from the county of Kent, where the family appears to have firstsettled, is obscure. He was of Noman descent, and probably the first ofhis line to live permanently in England. The anme occurs frequiently inNormandy; but no important genealogical data can be gathered from thescattered and disconnected references. The only definite information athand comes from the Rolls of France, from which it is ascertained thatHamo le Chandler, who appears from other circumstances to be of the Wiltsfamily, had safe conduct from England to or through the lordship ofl'Aigle, 1418-19, and that Peter Chaundeler, doubtless a knsman, had safeconduct to travel to Normandy, 1451-2 (Norman Roll, 6 Hen. V, pt. II;Roll of France, 30 Hen. VI). We may therfore assume that the family camefrom l'Aigle. The name was originally le Chaundeler, not de Chaundeler,which is mere mistake of the scribe who so recorded it. Chaudeler(afterwards contracted to Chandler) as a durname, has nothing to do withthe trade of 'Chandler,' as sometimes stated. It appears to be drivedfrom the court office of light-bearer, and arose in the same was as thesurnames of le Marshall, le Chancellor, &c. In very ancient times thisofficer had, no doubt, been simply candle-bearer to the sovereign; but inthe tenth or eleventh centuries had become a recognized officeial of theRoyal, or Ducal, household. Thus the lawas of the Welsh, in the thenthcentury, mention, among the twenty-four servants of the Court, theKanuylyt of the KIng and Queen. In this was several families of leChaundeler might (and doubtless did ) arise, not in the least related toeach other. No connection, for instance, can be established between thele Chaundelers of Wilts, and thos of Norfolk, Suffolk, and the northerncounties. Moreover, the arms borne by these families are totallydifferent. The arms attributed to Chaundler of Wilts are: Chequy argentand gules, on a bend engrailed sable three lions passant or. TheCandeler, or Chaundler, family of Hyde Barton Hants, a branch of theWiltshire family, bore: Chequy or and gules, on a bend engrailed sablethree lions passant guardant of the first."