Nicholas Haute

Sir Nicholas Haute (20 September 1357 – c. 1415), of Wadden Hall (Wadenhall) in Petham and Waltham, with manors extending into Lower Hardres, Elmsted and Bishopsbourne, in the county of Kent, was an English knight, landowner and politician.

[5] The de Haut pedigree in the 1619 Visitation of Kent by the herald John Philipot, Rouge Dragon,[6] and much of the research into the family's descent since that time, were dependent upon materials collected by Sir Edward Dering (1598–1644).

Dering, long suspected of having "improved" his own ancestral claims (which passed into the de Haute family) by "creative" genealogy,[7] is now shown to have falsified them by the actual forgery of documents and monuments.

[15][16] In 1358, in which year he had witnessed a charter on behalf of Christ Church Priory, Canterbury,[17] an order was given for Sir Edmund Haute to be brought to the king's court to answer a charge.

[21] Sir Henry had held Wadenhall of the archbishopric of Canterbury, and at his death in 1370 it was taken into the king's hands and granted in wardship to the archbishop during the minority of Nicholas Haute, then aged 13.

The lands granted jointly by Nicholas and Edmund Haute to William Elys in March 1384/5 by indenture, reserving powers of entry for arrears of rent, in "Northynton", refer to an estate in Nackington, Lower Hardres, south of Canterbury.

[43] In 1396 he witnessed John de Cobham's grant of the charter of Cowling Castle and many other Kentish manors, including lands in Lower Hardres.

"[48] His brother Edmund Haute served as Sheriff of Kent and Keeper of Canterbury Castle in 1408,[49] but died in office in October 1408 and was replaced by William Sneyth.

[50] Nicholas's benefactions include a grant to the church of the Domus Dei at Dover in July 1410, for a lamp burning daily before the high altar there.