Ralph de Neville (died before 1164)

Ralph was enfeoffed at Fordon, Filey, Muston, and Righton by Walter de Gand (d.1139) (Keats-Rohan 2002, p. 611; Complete Peerage, 9:976).

Events

Date of Birth: unknown.

Place of Birth: unknown.

Date of Death: probably before 1164.

Place of Death: unknown.

Keats-Rohan (2002, p. 611) states that Ralph’s son Geoffrey controlled his lands from about 1164.

Relationships

(probable) Father or Grandfather: Ralph de Neville

A Ralph de Neville was a tenant of Peterborough in 1086. He or his successor attested Walter de Gand’s foundation charter for Bridlington priory in about 1114 (Keats-Rohan 1999, p. 335; 2002, p. 611; Complete Peerage 9:746).

Mother: unknown.

Spouse: Hawise de Percy.

This relationship is given by Keats-Rohan (2002, p. 611) and by the Complete Peerage (9:476).

Children:

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

Geoffrey de Neville (probably died by 1189).

Ralph de Neville married Drusiana d’Aubigny.

Evidence

Round in Feudal England (pp. 166-7) discusses the earlier Ralph.

Dugdale (6:1:286-7) gives charters of Walter de Gand and his wife Matilda in which a Ralph de Neville was a witness (Num. II, Num. IX).

The cartulary of Rievaulx Abbey (pp. 47-8) contains a charter recording a grant Ralph de Neville made to the abbey.

Dugdale (5:508 ff) gives charters related to Ralph’s founding of a priory at Hutton Rudby before 1162.

References

Cartularium Abbathiae de Rievalle (Surtees Society, 1889).

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).

Dugdale, William; Henry J Ellis; Bulkeley Bandinel; Roger Dodsworth; and John Caley. Monasticon Anglicanum: a history of the abbies and other monasteries, hospitals, frieries and cathedral and collegiate churches, with their dependencies, in England and Wales, also of such Scotch, Irish, and French monasteries as were any manner connected with religious houses in England. (London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown, 1817-1830).

Keats-Rohan, K.S.B. Domesday People (1999).

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

Round, John Horace. Feudal England, (London, 1895).