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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 ...
The Neville–Neville feud was an inheritance dispute in the north of England during the early fifteenth century between two branches of the noble Neville family. The inheritance in question was that of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland , a prominent northern nobleman who had issue from two marriages.
The Percy–Neville feud was a series of skirmishes, raids, and vandalism between two prominent northern English families, the House of Percy and the House of Neville, and their followers, that helped provoke the Wars of the Roses. The original reason for the long dispute is unknown, and the first outbreaks of violence were in the 1450s, prior ...
The Neville family in England go back to at least the 11th century, and the historian Horace Round speculated that they were part of the pre-Norman aristocracy of Northumbria. [1] By the 13th century, the Nevilles had become, through shrewd marriages and royal patronage , major landholders, and concomitantly rose to a position of regional ...
Baron Neville or Nevill was a title of nobility in England, relating to and held by the Neville family, a noble house in northern England. The Nevilles had their family seat at the manor of Raby (turned into Raby Castle in the 14th century) [ 1 ] in County Durham , and so were called barons "Neville of Raby". [ 2 ]
Arms of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, KG. The Percys had lands throughout northern England, while the northern lands of the Nevilles were concentrated in north Yorkshire and in County Durham. As Warden of the West March, Salisbury was in a position to exert great power in the northwest, in spite of holding only Kendal and Penrith. The ...
Margaret de Longvillers (also spelt Lungvilliers) was born in Farnley, Yorkshire, either in or prior to 1252. [1] She was the daughter and heir of John de Lungvilliers and inherited land in Hornby as well as other property in Lancashire, the West Riding of Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, [2] upon his death in 1255. [3]
G. Geoffrey de Neville (died 1285) George Nevill, 1st Earl of Abergavenny; George Nevill, 4th Baron Bergavenny; George Nevill, 5th Baron Bergavenny; George Nevill, 11th Baron Bergavenny