Publications
Scenes from Provincial Life: Knightly Families in Sussex, 1280-1400 [the Etchinhams of Etchinham, the Sackvilles of Buckhurst, and the Waleyses of Glynde], by Nigel Saul, published 1 October 1986 (216 pp., Oxford University Press, ISBN-10: 0198200773 & ISBN-13: 9780198200772) accessible at: The Keep [LIB/500094] & West Sussex Libraries & East Sussex Libraries
Abstract:Looking at the world of the medieval gentry through the eyes of three families in East Sussex - the Etchinhams of Etchinham, the Sackvilles of Buckhurst, and the Waleyses of Glynde - Scenes from Provincial Life presents an insightful picture of what day-to-day life was like for a member of a knightly family in the Middle Ages. It draws on charters, estate documents, and even information gleaned from buildings and churches of the day to provide an illuminating account of the central preoccupations of landowners - estate management, military service, provision for relatives, and arrangements for schooling.
Etchingham Church, East Sussex, by Nigel Saul, published 1987 in History Today (vol. 37, article, pp.62-63)
Some Etchingham Ephemera or more Scenes from Provincial Life, by Nigel Saul, published 1989 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 127, historical note, pp.254-256) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 10604] & The Keep [LIB/500302] & S.A.S. library
Bodiam Castle, by Nigel Saul, published January 1995 in History Today (vol. 45, issue 1, article) View Online
Abstract:Nigel Saul examines the social aspirations of a fourteenth-century Sussex castle and the man who built it.
Bodiam castle in Sussex was the creation of one combative egotist, and it owes its preservation to another. The builder of Bodiam was an ambitious retired war veteran and future councillor of Richard II, Sir Edward Dallingridge. Its saviour five-and-a-half centuries later was that 'most superior person', the Marquess Curzon of Kedkston, Foreign Secretary and one-time viceroy of India.
Sir Edward Dallingridge's castle ? graceful, noble and proud ? appears the very epitome of the medieval stronghold. Essentially it consists of a single oblong-shaped courtyard rising from a broad moat. All the domestic and garrison accommodation is disposed around the four walls of the interior. In the west range are the servants' hall and kitchen, in the south the main hall and service rooms, and in the east the chapel and the private chambers of the lord and lady. Defensive panoply is concentrated in the four cylindrical corner towers and, above all, on the great gateway on the north side.
Bodiam castle in Sussex was the creation of one combative egotist, and it owes its preservation to another. The builder of Bodiam was an ambitious retired war veteran and future councillor of Richard II, Sir Edward Dallingridge. Its saviour five-and-a-half centuries later was that 'most superior person', the Marquess Curzon of Kedkston, Foreign Secretary and one-time viceroy of India.
Sir Edward Dallingridge's castle ? graceful, noble and proud ? appears the very epitome of the medieval stronghold. Essentially it consists of a single oblong-shaped courtyard rising from a broad moat. All the domestic and garrison accommodation is disposed around the four walls of the interior. In the west range are the servants' hall and kitchen, in the south the main hall and service rooms, and in the east the chapel and the private chambers of the lord and lady. Defensive panoply is concentrated in the four cylindrical corner towers and, above all, on the great gateway on the north side.
The Sussex Community and the Oath to uphold the Acts of the Merciless Parliament, by Nigel Saul, published 1997 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 135, article, pp.221-240) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13642] & The Keep [LIB/500290] & S.A.S. library
The Rise of the Dallingridge Family, by Nigel Saul, published 1998 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 136, article, pp.123-132) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 13921] & The Keep [LIB/500297] & S.A.S. library
The Cuckoo in the Nest: a Dallingridge tomb in the Fitzalan Chapel at Arundel, by Nigel Saul, published 2009 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 147, article, pp.125-133) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 17254] & The Keep [LIB/500365] & S.A.S. library View Online
Abstract:An indenture of 1 March 1476, preserved at Arundel Castle, records the acquisition by John Dudley of Atherington of a marble tomb in Arundel collegiate church. The tomb had originally been commissioned for the use of Richard Dallingridge, who had died five years before. The article identifies the tomb as the lower of the two currently supporting the effigies of the 9th Earl of Arundel and his wife in their chantry chapel on the south side of the Fitzalan Chapel at Arundel. It is suggested that Dudley acquired the tomb for the use of his wife Elizabeth, whose interment at Arundel is referred to in his will of 1500. The article concludes by identifying the circumstances which could have led Richard Dallingridge, the last of the Dallingridges of Bodiam, to seek burial in a church at the opposite end of the county from his family's base.