Ancestral Trails 2016 » Nicholas BOTEREL (1070-????)

Persoonlijke gegevens Nicholas BOTEREL 

• Hij is geboren in het jaar 1070 in Boscastle, Cornwall.
• Een kind van Geoffrey I BOTEREL en Avice de DOL

Gezin van Nicholas BOTEREL

Hij heeft/had een relatie met Beatrice _____.

Kind(eren):

1. William BOTEREL  1095-± 1158 

Notities over Nicholas BOTEREL

The first recorded Boterel was Nicholas. Where did he come from?

It is possible that he was the son of Geoffrey Boterel I, Count of Penthievre, but there is no definite proof other than that his father was called Boterel, Nicholas was Boterel, and his progeny were Boterels. Since surnames were not common in those days, the name suggests a family connection. Nicholas was not a common name, although William the Conqueror's cousin was a Nicholas, as was his uncle, the cousin of Eudes.

In England, we have a Nicholas in Cornwall born around 1070, according to Maclean, one of the great Victorian genealogists, with a son, William, born 1095. There was indeed a William born then, and Henry I's charter says he was the son of Nicholas. And here lies the problem. This Nicholas is recorded by Maclean as Nicholas Boteler and his son as William Boteler. But Maclean is unreliable.

Boterel is an anagram of Boteler - an easy confusion for a scribe in those days (or perhaps for later genealogists).

This would account for why there were Botelers and also Boterels in Cornwall - so perhaps Boterel was the original spelling.

Boteler means 'little bottle'. The name 'Butler' may be derived from it - the servant who looked after the bottles. But there were no glass bottles in those days, and wine was only carried in leather ones for immediate use. So it's unlikely that the Botelers were butlers to a fomer Saxon thegn.
SOURCE: http://bottrillfamilyhistory.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/family-origin.html

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