Geoffrey (Neville) de Neville (abt. 1090 - abt. 1145)

Born about 1090 in Lincolnshire, England

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Biography

Complete Peerage says very little about him and does not propose any exact relationships to his apparent predecessor or successor, both named Gilbert de Neville.

GEOFFREY DE NEVILLE in or before 1146 was lord of the fee in ‘which the church of Scothern lay, and held Walcot “cum appendiciis suis.”

Two Bulls of Pope Eugenius III [Pope 1145-1153] in favour of Lincoln and Peterborough respectively (Reg. Antiquiss., Linc. Rec. Soc., vol. i, p. 200; Dugdale, Mon., vol. i, p. 391). W. Mellows (Henry of Pytchley’s Book of Fees, Northants Rec. Soc., p.xxxviii) states that the Peterborough Bull describes the fees therein confirmed to the abbey by the names of the original feoffees in the time of Abbot Thorold, 75 years earlier ; but this does not hold good in either Bull in the case of these fees of Neville.

In a footnote, Complete Peerage (Vol.9 p.492 note d) remarks:

the continuity of the line from Gilbert I and Geoffrey I, through Gilbert II to Henry de Neville, his grandson, and Geoffrey de Neville, his great-grandson, successively, is shown by their retaining the mesne overlordship of Reepham, etc..

Also note the remark of Stapleton based upon the chronicles of Hugh Candidus of Peterborough, which seems to indicate a Geoffrey taking over lands from a Gilbert de Neville.^[1]

De Nevile. —

Primus Gilebertus de Nevile. Haeres Galfridi de Nevile tenet in Lincolnescire, scilicet in Waletone juxta Folkingham, et Yoltorpe, duas carrucatas terrae, et inde facit plenum servitium unius militis.

Keats-Rohan dates that to about 1116.

Everything depends on the dating of these records.

Stapleton also shows the parallel record from the 1120s showing what is presumably Geoffrey's predecessor:

Gislebertus de Nevila ,ii. carrucatas in Lincolnescira, et servit Abbatiae pro .ii. hidis, et inde invenit .i. militem.

Keats-Rohan seems to believe that this Gilbert was still the one registered in Domesday in 1086 (although her explanation of the above Galfrid is hard to follow):

The Domesday Gilbert was probably the Gilbert who held fees of the bishop of Lincoln in 1115/18 in Scothern and Reepham, which had been held by a Ranulf in 1086.

Sources

1. ↑ Stapleton, Chronicon Petroburgense p.172

• Cockayne et al. Complete Peerage, 2nd ed. Vol.9, p.492
• Keats-Rohan, Domesday People, p.211

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Neville-802 created through the import of Fitzherbert.ged on Aug 23, 2011 by Tony X.