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First Name

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Sir Geoffrey NEVILLE

Sir Geoffrey NEVILLE[1]

Male Abt 1225 - Bef 1285  (~ 60 years)

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  • Name Geoffrey NEVILLE 
    Prefix Sir 
    Born Abt 1225  County Durham, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Died Bef 26 Mar 1285  Hornby, Lancashire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Person ID I44216  Main
    Last Modified 4 May 2019 

    Father Geoffrey NEVILLE,   b. Abt 1197, Raby, Durham, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 29 Sep 1242, Raby, Durham, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 45 years) 
    Mother Joan MONMOUTH,   b. Abt 1201, Monmouthshire, Wales Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft Nov 1247, Raby Castle, Durham, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 46 years) 
    Family ID F31092  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Margaret DE LONGVILLERS,   b. Abt 1242, Farnley, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft Feb 1319, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 77 years) 
    Children 
    +1. John NEVILLE,   b. 10 Aug 1269, Hornby, Lancashire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1309, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 39 years)
    Last Modified 31 Aug 2017 
    Family ID F31091  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • By marriage he added lands in Lincolnshire, Lancashire and Yorkshire.
      A Justice Itinerant
      1264-captured at battle of Lewes, released in exchange
      1270-governor of Scarborough Castle
      1270-1285, Chief Justice of Forest in North England
      1273-1276, served as Royal Justice under Edward I
      1275-appointed chief assessor in Cumberland and Lancashier Counties

      Geoffrey de Nevill, in the 54th Henry III [1270], was constituted governor of Scarborough Castle and a justice itinerant. He m. Margaret, dau. and heir of Sir John Longvillers, of Hornby Castle, in Lancashire, and d. in the 13th Edward I [1285], being then seized of the manor of Appleby and other lands in Lincolnshire, the castle and manor of Hornby, co. Lancaster, and Hoton-Longvillers and other manors in Yorkshire, the entire of which he acquired by his wife. He was ancestor of the Nevills of Hornby. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 392, Nevill, Barons Nevill, of Raby, Earls of Westmoreland]

  • Sources 
    1. [S151] WikiTree.


Notes

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Updated 23 Dec 2023