Sir Robert de Neville
Robert held Manton and Scotton of Peterborough, 1210-12, and presented to Scotton, 1218-19. (Complete Peerage 9:477, citing the Book of Fees pp. 191-2).
Events
Date of Birth: unknown.
Place of Birth: unknown.
Date of Death: between April 1221 and 1225/6.
Place of Death: unknown.
In April 1221, Robert forgave his brother a fine for the King’s letter to the Abbot of Peterborough about Robert’s relief . He was dead by 1225/6 when his brother was guardian to his son. (Complete Peerage 9:477)
Relationships
Father: Ralph de Neville.
Mother: Drusiana d’Aubigny.
A charter given in Sir Christopher Hatton’s Book of Seals (see below) shows that early in Henry III’s reign, before 1236, Philip d’Aubigny (bailiff of the Channel Islands) gave his manor of Enderby (Leicestershire) to his nepos, Ralph de Nevill. In 1286, letters patents of Robert de Neville, son and heir of Philip de Neville, notify that he had enfeoffed his son Richard of his manor of Enderby. In a post to soc.genealogy.medieval, John Watson cites a suit from the Curia Regis Rolls (Michaelmas term, 4-5 Henry III [1220], p. 324) between “Drusiana de Alban” and the dean and precentors of Lincoln and Adam de St. Edmund about the lay fee of this Drusiana in Malmeton’ [Manton]. He also cites another suit in Lincolnshire (Easter term, 5 Henry III [1221], p. 135) in which the abbot of Louth was attached concerning the case by “Drusiane que fuit uxor Radulfi de Nevill” about the fee in Mamestan’ [Manton]. Drusiana and her husband Ralph must have been Robert’s parents because the Ralph who was nepos of Philip d’Aubigny must have been Robert’s brother (and thus Philip’s nephew) or perhaps Robert’s son (and thus Philip’s great-nephew). Robert’s brother Ralph de Neville presented to Manton in 1225/6 as guardian of the heir of Robert de Neville (Robert’s eldest son, Ralph) (Complete Peerage 9:477).
Spouse: Eustache Trian. Married by 1214.
This relationship is given by the Gloucestershire VCH (8:sub Oxenton). In a post to soc.genealogy.medieval, John Watson points out that this relationship is recorded in a Close Roll from 1214 (see below).
Children:
(Complete source citations for the children on this page are currently outside of the scope of this project.)
Ralph de Neville (died by 1239). In January 1220/1 Ralph was granted a market at his manor of Filey till he should be of age (Complete Peerage 9:477).
Philip de Neville (about 1214 - 1273).
Evidence
From Rotuli Litterarum Clausarum (1:170b):
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Rex dño P. Wint: Ep:o :t:c:. Mandam: voƀ qđ sñ dilõe plenar: saisinā hr:e faciatis Roƀto de Nevill de man:io de Oxenđ qđ fuit Roƀi de Trian q: ħeditarie 9tīgit Eustachiā sororē ej: đ Roƀi de Trian q:ā p:dc:s Roƀ de Nevill dux: ī ux:. Ap: Niort: ʴ xxxiiij. die Aug:.
From Sir Christopher Hatton’s Book of Seals (no. 35):
Ex cartis Thome Shirley de Botulf-Bridge in Comitatu Hunt’ Militis
35
Charter of Philip d’Aubigny giving to Ralf de Neville, his nephew, his manor of Enderby, Leics. (Early Henry III, before 1236)
Original: Harl. Chart. 83 A 19.
BS Facsimle
Sciant presentes et futuri quod ego Philippus de Albiniaco dedi et concessi et hac presenti carta mea confirmaui Radulfo de Neuilla nepoti meo totum manerium meum de Endredeby cum bruillio et cum omnibus pertinenciis suis in plano . in bosco . in uiis . in semitis in pasturis . in pannagio . in herbagio . in pascione . in molendinis . in aquis . in pratis pro homagio et seruicio suo habendum . et tenendum sibi et heredibus suis . de me et heredibus meis . libere . integre . honorifice . hereditarie . per seruicium quarte partis feodi unius militis pro omni seruicio . consuetudine et exactione . Et ego et heredes mei warantizabimus dicto Radulfo et heredibus suis dictum manerium cum omnibus dictis pertinenciis per predictum seruicium inperpetuum contra omnes gentes. Et in huius rei testimonium huic carte mee sigillum meum apposui. Hiis testibus . Rogero de Quenci . Ricardo de Gray . Rogero la Zuche . Bertran de Garclip . Willelmo de Percy . Oliuero de Sancto Georgio . Willelmo de Cnapwell’ . Eueraddo de Trumpintona . Willelmo de Waltham et multis aliis.
Endorsed: Endrediby.
An editor’s note states: “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 the charter are ‘P. de Garclip. B. fratre suo’ (Cartulaire des Isles Normandes, Soc. Jersiaise, pl. vii and p. 25). For an account of the family see CP, 2nd ed. iv. 93 et seq….”
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).
Liber Feodorum. The Book of Fees commonly called Testa de Nevill: Part I. A.D. 1198-1242 (London, 1920).
“Parishes: Oxenton” in A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 8, ed. C.R. Elrington (London, 1968).
Rotuli Litterarum Clausarum in Turri Londinensi Asservati: Volume 1. ed. Thomas Duffus Hardy (1833).
Sir Christopher Hatton’s Book of Seals, ed. Lewis C. Loyd and Doris Mary Stenton, (Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1950).