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De Neville, later Neville, is an English masculine given name, toponymic surname and the name of several places. All are derived from "new town" in Norman and French word. As a given name, it is chiefly used in the United Kingdom , Canada , Australia , South Africa , and Ireland .
The male line of the Nevilles was of native origin, and the family may well have been part of the pre-Conquest aristocracy of Northumbria. [1] Following the Norman Conquest, most of the existing Anglo-Saxon aristocracy of England were dispossessed and replaced by a new Norman ruling elite, and although such survivals are very rare, continued landholding by native families was more common in ...
Neville (name), including a list of people and characters with the given name or surname House of Neville, a noble family of England; Neville (wrestler), ring name of Benjamin Satterley, a British professional wrestler
The Neville barony of Raby came to existence in the 13th century, by the marriage of Robert fitz Meldred, lord of Raby, to Isabel de Neville, the heiress of a family of Norman origin. Their son, Geoffrey fitz Robert, adopted his mother's surname 'Neville' and inherited from his father the feudal barony of Raby, becoming the first "Baron Neville ...
John Neville, Baron Neville (c. 1410 – 29 March 1461) was an English nobleman who fought for the House of Lancaster during the Wars of the Roses.He belonged to a senior but impoverished branch of the Neville family of northern England, which had earlier been disinherited in favour of a younger branch headed by John's half-uncle, Richard, Earl of Salisbury.
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.
Isabel de Neville: Geoffrey FitzRobert de Neville b. c. 1197: Baron Neville of Raby (1st creation by tenure), 1295: Geoffrey de Neville b. c. 1225 1st Baron Nevill of Raby: Robert de Neville c. 1260/1270 2nd Baron Nevill of Raby: Baron Neville of Raby (1st creation by writ), 1295: Ralph Neville 1262–c. 1331 3rd/1st Baron Neville de Raby: King ...
Surname. Adam Nevill (born 1969), English writer of supernatural horror stories; Amanda Nevill (born 1957), English arts administrator; Arthur de Terrotte Nevill (1899-1985), New Zealand military aviator and administrator; Arthur Jones-Nevill (c. 1712 – 1771), Irish politician; Bernard Nevill (1930–2019), British designer and academic