NEVILLE FAMILY

I. RABY LINE

The family include the Nevilles of Abergavenny, Wellingore, Auborn, Kewland Hall, Skelbrooke, Chevet, Thorney, Tasburgh Hall and the Nevilles of Raby Castle. Each bore similar Coat of Arms with the Motto "NeVile Velis" meaning "Form no Vile wish or thought."

On the spelling of the surname Neville, the Abergavenny branch reject the final "e", while the Braybroooke branch retain it. For the sake of further distinction, the Grove, Chevet, Holbeck, Skelbrooke and Wellingore baranchs omit one "L". In the old manuscripts, from "De Nova Villa", we get Neuville, Nevylle, Nevyll, Nevyl, Nevill and Nevil while the Latimers are frequently styled Nevell, but the prevailing form is Nevyll or Nevill.

Born: ABT 1054

Notes: The Norman family of Nevill came from Teutonic stock. Baldrick was Lord of Bacqueville en Caux under Duke William. He married a niece of Gilbert Compte De Brionne, a grandson of duke Richard I who was regent of Normandy in 1040.

Father: Wigerius TEUTONICUS

Mother: ¿?

Married: Rohaise De CLARE (dau. of Richard De Clare, 1° E. Clare, and Rohese Giffard) ABT 1078

1. Gunnora De ANJOU

2. Nicholas De BASCHELVILLA

3. Robert De COURSY

4. Fulke De ANJOU

5. Richard "Teutonicus" De NOVAVILLA

6. Balderick De BEAUGENCY

7. Wigerius De APULIA

8. Hawise FITZBALDERICK

Gunnora De ANJOU

Born: ABT 1082

Mother: Rohaise De CLARE

Hawise FITZBALDERICK

Notes: her husband was slain at Hastings on 14 Oct 1066.

Father: Balderick TEUTONICUS

Mother: Rohaise De CLARE

Richard "Teutonicus" De NOVAVILLA

Born: ABT 1000, Neuvile, Normandy, France

Notes: was called De NovaVilla, or De Neuville from his fife in Neuville sur Tocque in the department of the Orne, arrondissement of Argenton, and the canton of Grace. A cousin of William the Conqueror on his maternal side and he left four sons; Gilbert, Robert, Richard and Ralph. From Gilbert De Nevill descends the houses of Westmoreland, Warwick, Latimer and Abergavenny.

Mother: Rohaise De CLARE

Children:

2. Robert De NEVILLE (b. ABT 1037)

4. Ralph De NEVILLE (b. ABT 1042)

Gilbert De NEVILLE

Notes: held in the year 1086 carucates (area of land that could be cultivated by an eight-ox plough team throughout a single year) at Waltcot, Lincolnshire and Yawthorpe, together with others in that part of England by 1115-18; kinship is plausible but has not been provern with son Geoffrey. (Burke's Peerage]. A reported Companion in arms to William the Conqueror, and by some genealogists, Admiral of the fleet of William the Conqueror. An uncle of Gilbert, Foulk d'Anjou furnished 40 ships for the fleet. Evidently there is some evidence from one of Alan's charters granting some land to Kirkstead Abbey was given in the presence of the bishop of Lincoln and witnessed by Alan's brother Gilbert and his son Geoffrey. Source: B.L., Cotton Mss., Verpasian EXVIII, f. 159v, Gilbert is identified as his brother by Alan in Harley Charters 58 H4. There is evidently a witness list of one of Gilberts charters that names his two sons William and Walter and includes Alan, son of Ernise.

Mother: ¿?

Children:

2. Jollan De NEVILLE

3. Geoffrey De NEVILLE

4. Alan De NEVILLE

Geoffrey De NEVILLE

Born: 1080

Died: 1146

Married: ¿?

Children:

1. Gilbert De NEVILLE

2. Alan De NEVILLE

Gilbert De NEVILLE

Born: 1118, Raby, Durham, England

Died: 1168

Father: Geoffrey De NEVILLE

Mother: ¿?

Married: Phillicia ?

Children:

1. Geoffrey De NEVILLE

2. Walter De NEVILLE

3. William De NEVILLE

Geoffrey De NEVILLE

Born: 1150 / 1175, Raby, Durham, England

Died: 29 Sep 1193 / 1194

Father: Gilbert De NEVILLE

Mother: Phillicia ?

Married: Emma De BULMER (dau. of Bertram De Bulmer, Lord of Brancepeth) (b. 1155) BEF Dec 1176

Children:

1. Henry De NEVILLE

2. Isabel De NEVILLE

Isabel De NEVILLE

Born: 1177

Died: 1254

Father: Geoffrey De NEVILLE

Mother: Emma BULMER

Married 1: Robert FITZMALDRED of Raby 1197, Brancepeth, Durham, England

Children:

1. Geoffrey De NEVILLE

Married 2: Gilbert De BRACKENBERG

Children:

2. Ralph De NEVILLE (Archbishop of Canterbury)

Ralph NEVILLE (Archbishop of Canterbury)

Born: 1200

Died: 1244

Notes: Bishop of Chichester 28 Oct 1222. Archbishop of Canterbury. Said to be illegitimate. Appointed Lord Chancellor (two separate terms) under King Henry III.

Father: Gilbert De BRACKENBERG

Mother: Isabel De NEVILLE

Maldred FITZDOLFIN of Raby

Born: ABT 1135, Raby, Durham, England

Father: Dolfin FITZUCHTRED of Raby

Mother: Alice of Durham

Married: Dau. De STUTEVILLE (dau. of John De Stuteville and Agnes ?)

Children:

1. Robert FITZMALDRED of Raby

Robert FITZMALDRED of Raby

Born: ABT 1170

Died: 1248

Father: Maldred FITZDOLFIN of Raby

Mother: Dau. De STUTEVILLE

Married: Isabel De NEVILLE 1197, Brancepeth, Durham, England

Children:

1. Geoffrey De NEVILLE

2. John De NEVILLE

3. William De NEVILLE

Geoffrey De NEVILLE

Born: ABT 1197, Raby Castle, Durham, England

Died: 1242 / 1249, Raby Castle, Durham, England

Notes: he took his mothers maiden name. Sheriff of Hutton. Lord of Raby; Lord of Brancepeth.

Father: Robert FITZMALDRED of Raby

Mother: Isabel De NEVILLE

Children:

1. Robert De NEVILLE

Married 2: Joan PLANTAGENET AFT 1208

Children:

2. John De NEVILLE

3. Geoffrey De NEVILLE (Sir)

4. Agnes De NEVILLE

Agnes De NEVILLE

Died: BEF 20 Jul 1293

Father: Geoffrey De NEVILLE

Mother: Joan PLANTAGENET

Married 1: Richard De PERCY (5º B. Percy)

Children:

1. Henry De PERCY

2. Alexander De PERCY

Married 2: John DEINCOURT of Blankney (d. BEF 14 Oct 1257)

Children:

3. Edmund DEINCOURT of Blankney and Branston (d. 6 Jan 1326/7)

Geoffrey De NEVILLE (Sir)

Born: 1242, Raby Castle, Durham, England

Died: 26 Mar 1285

Notes: Duke Commissioned to rule over Westmorland Co. by King Edward I. Governor of Scarborough Castle.

Father: Geoffrey De NEVILLE

Mother: Joan PLANTAGENET

Children:

1. Geoffrey De NEVILLE

2. Edmund De NEVILLE

3. William De NEVILLE

4. John De NEVILLE (Sir Knight)

5. Robert De NEVILLE (Sir)

6. Margaret De NEVILLE

Margaret De NEVILLE

Born: 1279, Raby Castle, Durham, England

Father: Geoffrey De NEVILLE (Sir)

Mother: Margaret De LONGVILLERS

Married: Robert De NORTHMILFORD

Robert De NEVILLE

Born: 1220, Raby Castle, Durham, England

Died: 1282

Buried: Church of the Friars Minor, Yorkshire, England

Notes: governor of Pickering Castle in Yorkshire.

Father: Geoffrey De NEVILLE

Mother: Margaret ? / Mabel De MAR

Married: Ida ? (w. of Roger Bertram, 1° Baron of Mitford - m.3 John Fitzmarmaduke) BEF 1274

Children:

1. Robert De NEVILLE

Robert De NEVILLE

Died: 6 Jun 1271, Raby, Durham, England

Father: Robert De NEVILLE

Mother: Ida ?

Married: Mary TAILBOYS AFT 1256, Raby, Durham, England

Children:

1. Ralph De NEVILLE (1° B. Neville of Raby)

2. Jane De NEVILLE

4. Anastasia De NEVILLE

6. Henry De NEVILLE

8. Robert De NEVILLE

Ralph De NEVILLE (1º B. Neville of Raby)

Born: 18 Oct 1262 / 1270, Raby Castle, Durham, England

Acceded: 1295

Died: 18 Apr 1331

Buried: on the south side of the altar at Coverham, England

Father: Robert De NEVILLE

Mother: Mary TAILBOYS

Married 1: Euphemia De CLAVERING

Children:

1. Joan De NEVILLE (b. ABT 1283)

2. Anastasia De NEVILLE

3. Robert De NEVILLE of Middleham (Sir Knight)

4. Ida De NEVILLE (b. ABT 1289)

5. Ralph NEVILLE (2° B. Neville of Raby)

6. Eupheme De NEVILLE (b. ABT 1291)

7. Alice De NEVILLE (b. ABT 1293)

8. Alexander De NEVILLE (Sir Knight)

9. John NEVILLE (b. 1299 - d. 19 Jul 1333)

10. Mary De NEVILLE (b. ABT 1301)

11. William De NEVILLE (b. ABT 1303)

12. Margaret De NEVILLE (b. ABT 1305)

13. Thomas De NEVILLE (b. ABT 1306 - d. BEF Jun 1349)

14. Avelina De NEVILLE

Married 2: Margery De THWENGE (dau. of John De Thwenge and Joan De Mauley)

Avelina De NEVILLE

Anastasia De NEVILLE

Robert De NEVILLE of Middleham (Sir Knight)

Died: Jun 1319

Father: Ralph De NEVILLE (1° B. Neville of Raby)

Married: Ellen ? ABT 1318, Raby, Durham, England

Alexander De NEVILLE (Sir Knight)

Born: ABT 1297, Raskelf, Yorkshire, England

Died: 15 Mar 1366/7

Father: Ralph De NEVILLE (1° B. Neville of Raby)

Ralph NEVILLE (2º B. Neville of Raby)

Born: 1291

Died: 5 Aug 1367, Durham, England

Buried: Durham Cathedral

Notes: commanded the English forces that defeated the Scots in the Battle of Nevill's Cross on 17 Oct 1346.

Father: Ralph De NEVILLE (1° B. Neville of Raby)

Mother: Euphemia De CLAVERING

Married: Alice AUDLEY (B. Neville of Raby) 14 Jan 1326, Stratton Audley, Oxfordshire, England Royal License

Children:

1. John NEVILLE (3º B. Neville of Raby)

2. Margaret NEVILLE (B. Ros)

3. Euphemia NEVILLE (B. Lucy)

4. Ralph De NEVILLE (Sir Knight)

5. Robert NEVILLE of Eldon

6. William NEVILLE

7. Eleanor NEVILLE (Abbess of Minories)

8. Catherine NEVILLE (B. Dacre of Gillesland)

9. Alexander NEVILLE (Archbishop of York)

10. Elizabeth NEVILLE (b. 1343)

11. Isabel NEVILLE

12. Thomas NEVILLE (b. 1355)

13. Alice NEVILLE

Alexander NEVILLE (Archbishop of York)

Born: ABT 1341, Raby, Durham, England

Died: 1392

Notes: Archbishop of York.

Father: Ralph NEVILLE (2° B. Neville of Raby)

Mother: Alice AUDLEY (B. Neville of Raby)

Isabel NEVILLE

Born: ABT 1344, Raby, Durham, England

Father: Ralph NEVILLE (2° B. Neville of Raby)

Mother: Alice AUDLEY (B. Neville of Raby)

Married: Hugh FITZHUGH FITZHENRY

Euphemia NEVILLE (B. Lucy)

Born: ABT 1316, Cockermouth, Cumberland, England

Died: Oct 1393

Father: Ralph NEVILLE (2° B. Neville of Raby)

Mother: Alice AUDLEY (B. Neville of Raby)

Married 1: Robert CLIFFORD (4° B. Clifford) Apr 1343, Raby, Durham, England

Married 2: Reynold LUCY (B. Lucy) (b. 1324) (son of Thomas De Lucy and Margaret Multon) 1346, Cockermouth, Cumberland, England

Married 3: Walter HESELARTON (b. 1326) (son of Walter Heselarton and Eustace Percy) ABT 1347

Catherine NEVILLE (B. Dacre of Gillesland)

Born: ABT 1330, Raby, Durham, England

Died: BEF 1 Sep 1361

Father: Ralph NEVILLE (2° B. Neville of Raby)

Mother: Alice AUDLEY (B. Neville of Raby)

Married: William DACRE (2º B. Dacre of Gillesland) ABT 1344, Raby, Durham, England

Eleanor NEVILLE (Abbess of Minories)

Born: ABT 1340, Raby, Durham, England

Father: Ralph NEVILLE (2° B. Neville of Raby)

Mother: Alice AUDLEY (B. Neville of Raby)

Married: Geoffrey SCROPE 1360, Raby, Durham, England

Margaret NEVILLE (B. Ros)

Born: 12 Feb 1329, Raby, Durham, England

Died: 12 May 1372

Father: Ralph NEVILLE (2° B. Neville of Raby)

Mother: Alice AUDLEY (B. Neville of Raby)

Married 1: William De ROS (4º B. Ros of Hamlake) BEF 8 May 1341, Raby, Durham, England

Married 2: Henry PERCY (1° E. Northumberland) 12 Jul 1358, Brancepeth, Durham, England

Children:

1. Ralph PERCY (Sir)

2. Henry "Hotspur" PERCY (B. Percy)

3. Thomas PERCY (Sir Knight)

Robert NEVILLE of Eldon

Born: ABT 1337, Eldon, Durham, England

Father: Ralph NEVILLE (2° B. Neville of Raby)

Mother: Alice AUDLEY (B. Neville of Raby)

Married: Clara PINCKNEY (b. 1339) ABT 1358, Eldon, Durham, England

William NEVILLE

Died: ABT 1391

Notes: Nottingham historian Tony Scupham-Bilton has suggested that there is a gay undertone to the Robin Hood legend. The link with Robin Hood dates back 700 years and it is due to the relationship between Sir William Neville and Sir John Clanvowe, a poet who wrote a ballad in honor of a visit of King Richard II to Nottingham castle, "The Jest of Robin Hood". According to Scupham-Bilton, the background of the ballad was Clanvowe's own relationship with Neville. The two of them had a ceremony of "wedded brotherhood". Neville and Clanvowe died on pilgrimage near Constantinople, Neville two days later than Clanvowe. In an entry for 1391 in the chronicle compiled in the XIV century by the monks of Westminster Abbey, it is written that William Neville died of grief for the death of John Clanvowe: "It was also on October 17, that in a village near Constantinopole in Greece the life of Sir John Clanvowe, a distinguished knight, came to its close, causing to his companion on the march, Sir William Neville, for whom his love was no less than for himself, such inconsolable sorrow that he never took food again and two days afterward breathed his last, greatly mourned, in the same village. These two knights were men of high repute among the English, gentlemen of mettle and descended from illustrious families". Their tombstone was sculpted with two helms kissing each others, and was discovered in 1913 inside the Arap Mosque. It is now preserved at the İstanbul Archaeology Museums.

Father: Ralph NEVILLE (2° B. Neville of Raby)

Mother: Alice AUDLEY (B. Neville of Raby)

Married: Elizabeth Le WALEYS (B. Waleys) (d. AFT 1398) (dau. of Stephen Waleys, 2nd Baron Le Waleys, and Alice De St. Philibert) (m.2 John De Dependen)

John NEVILLE (3° B. Neville of Raby)

Born: 1322/8, Raby, Durham, England

Died: 17 Oct 1388, Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, England

Buried: Durham Cathedral

Notes: Knight of the Garter. 5th. baron Neville of Raby, Knight, builder of the greater part of Raby Castle which is located near Barnard Castle in Durham Co. Admiral of the King's fleet. Served in the wars against the Scots and French.

Father: Ralph NEVILLE (2° B. Neville of Raby)

Mother: Alice AUDLEY (B. Neville of Raby)

Married 1: Maud PERCY (B. Neville of Raby) Jul 1357, Alnwick, Northumberland, England

Children:

1. Alice NEVILLE (B. Deincourt)

2. Eleanor NEVILLE (B. Lumley)

3. Thomas NEVILLE (6º B. Furnival)

4. Idina (Iolande) NEVILLE

5. Ralph NEVILLE (1° E. Westmoreland)

6. Maud (Matilda) NEVILLE

7. Elizabeth NEVILLE (Nun at Minories)

8. Dau. NEVILLE

Married 2: Elizabeth LATIMER (B. Latimer of Corby) (d. 5 Nov 1395) (dau. of William Latimer, B. Latimer, and Elizabeth Fitzalan) (m.2 Robert Willoughby, 4° B. Willoughby of Eresby) BEF 9 Oct 1381, Raby, Durham, England

9. John NEVILLE (1° B. Latimer of Corby)

10. Elizabeth NEVILLE

11. Margaret NEVILLE

Alice NEVILLE (B. Deincourt)

Born: ABT 1358, Raby, Durham, England

Died: 14 Oct 1381

Father: John NEVILLE (3° B. Neville of Raby)

Mother: Maud PERCY (B. Neville of Raby)

Married: William DEINCOURT (3° B. Deincourt) (b. 1355 - d. 1381) (son of William Deincourt, 2° B. Deincourt, and Margaret De Welles) BEF 1380, Raby, Durham, England

Children:

1. Ralph DEINCOURT (4° B. Deincourt) (b. 24 Jun 1380 - d. 07 Nov 1384)

2. John DEINCOURT (5° B. Deincourt) (b. 28 Feb 1381 - d. 11 May 1406) (m. Joan De Grey)

3. Elizabeth DEINCOURT (m. Sir William Clinton)

Thomas NEVILLE (6º B. Furnival)

Born: ABT 1362/1367, Raby, Durham, England

Died: 14 Mar 1406/7

Notes: The Complete Peerage vol.V,p.589. Treasurer of England

Father: John NEVILLE (3° B. Neville of Raby)

Mother: Maud PERCY (B. Neville of Raby)

Married 1: Joan FURNIVAL (B. Furnival) (b. 1361) BEF 1 Jul 1379, Alton, Staffordshire, England

Married 2: Ankaret Le STRANGE (B. Strange of Blackmere) 4 Jul 1401, Whitechurch, England

Children:

1. Maud NEVILLE (B. Le Strange/C.Shrewsbury)

2. Joan NEVILLE

Maud NEVILLE (B. Le Strange/C.Shrewsbury)

Born: ABT 1392

Died: BEF 1433

Buried: Worksop Priory, Nottinghamshire, England

Father: Thomas NEVILLE (6º B. Furnival)

Mother: Joan FURNIVAL (B. Furnival)

Married: John TALBOT (1º E. Shrewsbury) BEF 12 Mar 1407

Children:

1. John TALBOT (2º E. Shrewsbury)

2. Christopher TALBOT (Sir Knight)

3. Joan TALBOT

4. Thomas TALBOT (d. before his father, Bourdeaux)

5. Catherine TALBOT

Joan NEVILLE

Notes: There is no clear agreement who Joan married. Burke (peerage under Furnival) says she may have married Hugh Cokesey or Hamon De Belknap. The history of Burton Agnes implies she married Walter Griffith and lies in the church there.

Father: Thomas NEVILLE (6º B. Furnival)

Mother: Ankaret Le STRANGE (B. Strange of Blackmere)

Eleanor NEVILLE (B. Lumley)

Born: ABT 1360, Raby, Durham, England

Died: AFT 1441

Notes: daughter of John, Lord Neville of Raby, and sister of Ralph, Earl of Westmoreland. She was a beautiful and noble woman and tradition associates her with all of the best acts of her noble husband.

Father: John NEVILLE (3° B. Neville of Raby)

Mother: Maud PERCY (B. Neville of Raby)

Married: Ralph LUMLEY (1° B. Lumley) BEF 1378, Raby, Durham, England

Children:

2. John LUMLEY

3. William LUMLEY

4. Marmaduke LUMLEY (Bishop of Carlisle and Lincoln)

5. Elizabeth LUMLEY

6. Catherine LUMLEY

¿7. Dau. LUMLEY?

Married 2: Robert DARCY AFT 1399, Raby with Keverstone, Durham, England

Children:

8. Robert DARCY (Sir Knight)

Maud (Matilda) NEVILLE

Born: ABT 1367, Raby, Durham, England

Notes: Some confusion about this entrie. Perhaps the William Scrope who married Maud Neville was the son of Henry, first B. Scrope of Masham, or perhaps that Maud Neville was the daughter of Ralph Neville and Alice De Audley

Father: John NEVILLE (3° B. Neville of Raby)

Mother: Maud PERCY (B. Neville of Raby)

Married: William SCROPE

Elizabeth NEVILLE

John NEVILLE (1° B. Latimer of Corby)

Born: 1382

Died: 10 Dec 1430, Battle of Towton

Buried: St Mary's Abbey, York, Yorkshire, England

Notes: Son and heir. He was born in 1382, being aged 13 at his mother's death, and attaining his majority by Dec 1403. On 4 Jul 1398 a grant of 100 marks per annum was made to the Bishop of London and Edmund Hampdene for his maintenance during minority. His marriage had already (15 May) been granted to the Bishop, who in 1399 assigned it to Elizabeth, Lady Clifford, and others. On 28 Jul 1400 Henry IV granted to John, lord of Latymer, still under age, custody of the manors of Scampston and Terrington. He was summoned to Parliament from 25 Aug 1404 to 27 Nov 1430, by writs directed Johanni de Latymer or Johanni Latymer chivaler. He was one of the lords who on 22 Dec 1406 sealed the second Act of Succession and swore to support the same; and about that time his name occurs on a list of those summoned to attend a Great Council. He married, before 24 Jul 1406, Maud, daughter of Thomas, 6th Lord Clifford. From her he was divorced casusa frigiditatis ujusdem Johannis Nevill and, having no issue, he settled the greater part of his estate (although derived through his mother) on his brother of the half blood, Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, to the exclusion of his heir, his sister of the whole blood, Elizabeth. He died s.p., 10 Dec 1430, desiring (in his will) to be buried in St. Mary's Abbey, York, "where I have put my stone". His divorced wife Maud married, as 2nd wife, Richard, Earl of Cambridge, who was executed 5 Aug 1415. She died s.p., 26 Aug 1446, and was buried in Roche Abbey, co. York. [Complete Peerage VII:476-7].

Father: John NEVILLE (3° B. Neville of Raby)

Mother: Elizabeth LATIMER (B. Latimer of Corby)

Married 1: Maud CLIFFORD (C. Cambridge) Divorce AFT 24 Jul 1406

Married 2: Anne HOLLAND (d. 26 Dec 1486) BEF 1430

Married 1: Joan De ATHERTON (dau. of Henry De Atherton and Emma Aintree)

Eleanor NEVILLE

Born: ABT 1432, Snitterfield, Warwickshire, England

Married: John WEST of Waith BEF 1445

Died: 1559

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