Events
Date of Birth: about 1316.
Place of Birth: unknown.
The date is given by the HoP. In the inquisition post mortem of his father (CIPM volume 14 no. 30), Nicholas is stated to be 60 years and more on 10 April, 48 Edward III. Foulds (p. cxliv) gives circa 1311.
Date of Death: 18 January 1393.
Place of Death: unknown.
The date was given on a monumental inscription (Foulds p. cxliv), Thoroton (3:sub Hoveringham).
(presumed) Place of Burial: Hoveringham, Nottinghamshire.
Thoroton (3:sub Hoveringham) states that on a plain stone in the south aisle this was written: "Nicolaus de Gozill miles, filius Thomae de Gousell militis, qui obitt mortem die S. Priscae virginis, Anno dom. 1393." Also, painted on the wall: "Here lyeth the body of Sir Nicholas Goushill, son of Sir Thomas Gozill, which Sir Nicholas died in the year 1393."
Relationships
Father: Sir Thomas Goushill.
This relationship is given by Thoroton (3:sub Hoveringham) and by Foulds (p. cxliv). It is recorded in a pedigree from a plea roll given by Wrottesley (p. 174-175). Nicholas is named as Thomas's son in heir in Thomas's inquisition post mortem (CIPM volume 14, no. 30.)
Mother: Agnes.
This relationship is given by Thoroton (3:sub Hoveringham).
Spouse: Joan.
Douglas Richardson cites DDK/1404/22 41 Edward III., A.D. 1367 at the Lancashire Record Office as evidence that the name of Sir Nicholas’s wife was Joan.
Children:
Sir Robert Goushill (died 21 July 1403) married (1) Joan; married (2) Elizabeth Arundel.
Sir Nicholas Goushill (died 21 July 1403).
Evidence
From the inquisition post mortem of Roger Folvill of Cloune (CIPM vol. 15, no. 773):
Fontenes. A carucate of land, held of Nicholas Goushull, knight, by service of 1/2 lb. cummin and 1/2 d., and by suit to his court of Barleburgh.
[Writ: 12 October, 6 Richard II]
References
Calendar of Inquisitions Post Mortem and Other Analogous Documents Preserved in the Public Record Office Volume 14. (Public Record Office: 1952).
“GOUSHILL, Sir Nicholas (d.1402), of Barlborough, Derbys.” in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1386-1421. [accessed 20 September 2014]
'Hoveringham', Thoroton's History of Nottinghamshire: volume 3: Republished with large additions by John Throsby (1796), pp. 61-64. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=76929 Date accessed: 22 September 2014.
The Thurgarton Cartulary (Trevor Foulds, ed.) (Stamford, 1994).
Wrottesley, George. Pedigrees from the plea rolls: collected from the pleadings in the various courts of law A.D. 1200 to 1500, from the original rolls in the Public Records Office. (1905).