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Ranulph Neville, 1st Baron Neville

Ranulph Neville, 1st Baron Neville

English nobleman

Ranulph Neville, 1st Baron Neville (18 October 1262 – c. 18 April 1331) of Raby Castle, County Durham, was an English nobleman and head of the powerful Neville family.

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Origins

He was the eldest son of Robert de Neville (who predeceased his own father) by his wife Mary FitzRanulf, one of the three daughters and co-heiresses of Ralph FitzRanulf (d.1270) of Middleham Castle in Yorkshire.[1] Ranulph was heir to his grandfather Sir Robert de Neville (d.1282) of Raby.

Marriages and children

Neville married twice:

Arms of de Clavering: Quarterly or and gules, a bend sable[2]
Effigy in St Brandon's Church, Brancepeth, of Sir Robert Neville (d.1319) "Peacock of the North", in style of a cross-legged crusader. On his shield he displays the arms of Neville with a label of three points for the difference of an eldest son
  • Secondly he married Margery de Thwenge, daughter of John de Thwenge and Joan de Mauley. Her effigy survives in St Mary's Church, Staindrop.[6]

Death and burial

Ranulph died shortly after 18 April 1331 and was buried in the choir of Coverham Abbey, the patronage of which had been inherited from his mother.[7]

Footnotes

  1. [1]
    'Parishes: Middleham', in A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 1, ed. William Page (London, 1914), pp. 251-257
  2. [2]
    FitzHerbert, R.H.C (1886). "Original pedigree of Tailbois and Neville." The Genealogist, 3, pp. 31. Walford Dakin Selby, Ed. London
  3. [3]
    Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 40 Neville, Ralph de, by James Tait
  4. [4]
    FitzHerbert, R.H.C (1886). "Original pedigree of Tailbois and Neville." The Genealogist, 3, pp. 31. Walford Dakin Selby, Ed. London (or perhaps daughter of Robert fitz Roger of Clavering (5th Baron of Warkworth & Clavering) and Margaret la Zouche, daughter of Alan la Zouche (source needed)
  5. [5]
    Tait, DNB "the Earl of Douglas" (sic)
  6. [6]
    See image
  7. [7]
    Tait, DNB

References

  • Cokayne, G.E.; Doubleday, H.A. & Howard de Walden, Lord, eds. (1936). The Complete Peerage. Vol. 9 (2nd ed.). London: St. Catherine Press. p. 497.
  • Fitz Herbert, Reginald H.C. (1886). "Original Pedigree of Tailbois and Neville" (PDF). In Walford Dakin Selby (ed.). The Genealogist. New Series. Vol. 3. London: George Bell and Sons. p. 34.
  • Richardson, D. (2011). Kimball G. Everingham (ed.). Magna Carta Ancestry (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Tuck, Anthony (2004). "Neville, Ralph, fourth Lord Neville (c. 1291–1367)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online) (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/19950. ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Archived from the original on 16 February 2019. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  • Young, Charles R. (1996). The Making of the Neville Family, 1166–1400. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. ISBN 978-0-85115-668-2.
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