Ralph de Neville

Ralph seems to have held 3 fees in Scotton and Manton from Peterborough in 1189 (Complete Peerage 9:477).

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: between 1201 and 1212.

Place of Death: unknown.

In 1201 Ralph was sued regarding the manors of Filey, Righton etc., and in 1210-12 Sir Robert de Neville held Scotton and Manton (Complete Peerage 9:477).

Relationships

(probable) Father: Ralph de Neville.

This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (9:477) and by Keats-Rohan (pp. 610 and 611).

(probable) Mother: Hawise de Percy.

This relationship is given by the Complete Peerage (9:477) and by Keats-Rohan (pp. 610 and 611).

Spouse: Drusiana d’Aubigny.

In a charter dated to early Henry III, before 1236, Philip d’Aubigny gave his manor of Enderby to his nephew Ralph de Nevill: “...ego Philippus de Albiniaco dedi et concessi et hac presenti carta mea confirmavi Radulfo de Nevilla nepoti meo totum manerium meum de Endredby…” (Hatton, no. 35). In a note, the editors state “The grantor is Philip d’Aubigny, bailiff of the Channel Islands in the reign of Henry III. A charter of his for Le Mont-St-Michel has a seal identical with that of the present charter, and among the witnesses to that charter are ‘P. de Garclip. B. fratre suo’ (Cartulaire des Isle Normandes, Soc. Jersiaise, pl. vii and p. 25). For an account of the family see CP, 2nd ed. iv. 93 et seq.” In a post to soc.genealogy medieval, John Watson gives evidence from the Curia Regis rolls that Drusiana d’Aubigny was married to the Ralph de Neville of this page. (That Drusiana was a widow in 1220/1 rules out other Ralph de Nevilles she might have been married to.) Nichols (4:1:157), apparently without evidence, gives her name as Alice.

Children:

(Complete source citations for the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)

Sir Robert de Neville married Eustache Trian.

Sir Ralph de Neville.

References

Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59).

Keats-Rohan, Katharine S. B. Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1106 - 1166. (Woodbridge: 2002).

Nichols, John. The History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester:Volume 4, part 1 (1807).

Sir Christopher Hatton’s Book of Seals, ed. Lewis C. Loyd and Doris Mary Stenton, (Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1950).