Geoffrey de Neville (died 1193)

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Arms of Neville of Ashby ("Neville ancient"): Or fretty gules, on a canton per pale ermine and the first a ship with three masts sable. Adopted at the start of the age of heraldry, circa 1200-1215

Geoffrey de Neville (died 1193) was the 2nd feudal baron of Ashby in Lincolnshire. [1]

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Origins

He was the son and heir of Gilbert de Neville (d.1166/9), 1st feudal baron of Ashby, to whom King Henry II had granted the manors of Ashby and Toynton in 1162. [2] Gilbert's lands were valued at £15 per annum and were held by military service of one knight. [3]

Marriage and children

At some time before 1176 he married (as her second husband) Emma de Bulmer (d.1208), widow of Geoffrey de Valognes, [4] daughter of Bertram de Bulmer (d.pre-1166) and heiress of her brother William de Bulmer (d.1176/8). [5] Emma's father held 3 1/5 knight's fees [6] and in the mid-twelfth century his estate was the joint largest in the "dominion of Saint Cuthbert" (i.e. County Durham). [7] She brought to her husband several estates, including Brancepeth Castle (built by the Bulmer family) in County Durham and Sheriff Hutton Castle (built by Bertram de Bulmer, near Bulmer, [8] the original seat of the family), Raskelf and Sutton-in-the-Forest, all in Yorkshire. It is believed that the bull crest of the Neville family was a canting reference to their Bulmer ancestry, possibly even the crest of the Bulmer family. [9] By Emma he had children:

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Arms of FitzMaldred ("Neville modern"): Gules, a saltire argent

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References

  1. Sanders, I.J. English Baronies: A Study of their Origin and Descent 1086-1327, Oxford, 1960, p.3
  2. Sanders, p.3
  3. Sanders, p.3, note 3
  4. Davison, p.38, pedigree chart from Farrer and Clay's Early Yorkshire Charters
  5. Sanders, p.3, note 4
  6. Sanders, p.3, note 4; Liddy, p.35 states 5 knight's fees in County Durham
  7. Christian Drummond Liddy, The Bishopric of Durham in the Late Middle Ages, p.35
  8. Davison, p.35
  9. Peter R. D. Davison, Saxon Survivors? The Bulmers Thanes to Sheriffs and Knights A Continuing English Identity, 2007, frontispiece
  10. Cokayne, The Complete Peerage , new edition. vol. 9, pp. 493-494
  11. Sanders, p.3
  12. See image
  13. Sanders, p.3
  14. Name of his wife as Joan derived from a 1273 charter from her son Robert de Neville (d.1282) to Marton Priory, Yorkshire, mentioning the "souls of his parents Geoffrey and Joan and for the souls of both of his own wives"(Calendar of the Charter Rolls, 1300-1326, London, 1908, p.135,quoted in Jarvis, R. (2017) Baronial women in thirteenth-century Lincolnshire. M.A. thesis, Canterbury Christ Church University, p.20 )