Ranulph Neville, 1st Baron Neville explained

Ranulph Neville
Post-Nominals:	1st Baron Neville
Birth Date:	18 October 1262
Death Date:	c. 18 April 1331 (aged 68)
Resting Place:	Coverham Abbey, Yorkshire
Spouse:	Euphemia Clavering Margery de Thwenge
Children:	Ralph Neville, 2nd Baron Neville (among others)
Parents:	Robert de Neville Mary FitzRanulf
Family:	Neville

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.

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:

• Firstly to Euphemia de Clavering, daughter and heiress^[2] of John de Clavering or of his father Robert fitzRoger de Clavering^[3] of Warkworth Castle in Northumberland. By his wife he had fourteen children including:

• • Robert Neville (c. 1287 – June 1319), the "Peacock of the North", eldest son and heir apparent who predeceased his father, having been slain in a border fray outside the walls of Berwick by James 'The Good', Lord of Douglas (c.1290–1330).^[4] His cross-legged crusader-style effigy survives in St Brandon's Church, Brancepeth;
  • Ralph Neville, 2nd Baron Neville (c. 1291 – 5 August 1367), eldest surviving son and heir;
  • Sir Alexander Neville (d. 15 March 1367);
  • John Neville (d. 19 July 1333) who died at the Battle of Halidon Hill;
  • Thomas Neville (c. 1306 - before June 1349), Archdeacon of Durham.
  • Anastasia Neville (c.1285), wife of Sir Walter Fauconberg (d. 24 June 1314) who died at the Battle of Bannockburn);
  • Mary Neville;
  • Ida Neville;
  • Eupheme Neville.
• Secondly he married Margery de Thwenge, daughter of John de Thwenge and Joan de Mauley. Her effigy survives in St Mary's Church, Staindrop.^[5]

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.^[6]

References

• Book: Cokayne . 1936 . Doubleday . Howard de Walden . G.E. . H.A. . Lord . . 9 . 2nd . amp . St. Catherine Press . London . 497 . George Edward Cokayne . Thomas Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden .
• Book: Fitz Herbert, Reginald H.C. . 1886 . Original Pedigree of Tailbois and Neville . The Genealogist . New Series . 3 . Walford Dakin Selby . Walford Dakin Selby . George Bell and Sons . London . 34 . https://fmg.ac/phocadownload/userupload/scanned-sources/tgb/Vol03-PDFs/S-3950%20Tailbois.pdf . Reginald H. C. FitzHerbert .
• Book: Richardson, D. . 2011 . [{{googlebooks|8JcbV309c5UC|plainurl=y}} Magna Carta Ancestry ]. 2nd . Kimball G. Everingham . Salt Lake City . Douglas Richardson .
• Tuck . 2004 . Anthony . Neville, Ralph, fourth Lord Neville (c. 1291–1367) . https://archive.today/20190216033758/http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-19950 . dead . 2019-02-16 . online . 10.1093/ref:odnb/19950 . 978-0-19-861412-8 . Anthony Tuck .
• Book: Young, Charles R. . 1996 . [{{googlebooks|GqmtCq3I5zsC|plainurl=y}} The Making of the Neville Family, 1166–1400 ]. Boydell Press . Woodbridge . 978-0-85115-668-2 . Charles Robert Young .

Notes and References

1. 'Parishes: Middleham', in A History of the County of York North Riding: Volume 1, ed. William Page (London, 1914), pp. 251-257 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/yorks/north/vol1/pp251-257
2. Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 40Neville, Ralph de, by James Tait https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Neville,_Ralph_de_(DNB00)
3. FitzHerbert, R.H.C (1886). "Original pedigree of Tailbois and Neville." The Genealogist, 3, pp. 31. Walford Dakin Selby, Ed. London https://www.wikitree.com/photo/png/Neville-57 (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)
4. Tait, DNB "the Earl of Douglas" (sic)
5. http://anhrefn.blogspot.com/2011/06/euphemia-de-clavering.html See image
6. Tait, DNB