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Nigel (c. 1100 – 1169) wasTreasurer of England under King Henry I, before being appointed to the see, or bishopric, of Ely in 1133. Nigel owed his advancement to his uncle,Roger of Salisbury, a bishop and government minister. Following the accession of Henry I’s successor, King Stephen, Nigel remained as treasurer only briefly. He rebelled and deserted to Stephen’s rivalMatilda, and never regained high office under Stephen. On the king’s death, Nigel was returned to the treasurership by the new king, Henry II. In Nigel’s second tenure as treasurer, he returned the administration to the practices of Henry I. He withdrew from much of his public work after around 1164, following an attack of paralysis. He was succeeded as treasurer by his son, Richard fitzNeal, whom he had trained in the operations of theExchequer, or Treasury of England. Most historians have felt that Nigel’s administrative abilities were excellent; he is considered to have been more talented as an administrator than as a religious figure.
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