Ranulph Neville 1st Baron Neville

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Ranulph, or Ralph, Nevill, only son of Mary FitzRandolph, brought the name Ralph into the Nevill family, their descendants have filled the foremost places in English history. Their blood has come down to our day in veins of the Royal houses of England of Plantagenet, Tudor, Stuart and Guelph. When Robert Nevill died this Ranulph was still in his minority and obtained liberty of the king that his friends might plow and manage his lands, and in 13th of Edward I, 1285, had liberty of certain manor, part of his inheritance. He was summoned to Parliament as a Baron 8 June, 1294, and from that period to 18 Feb., 1331. His lordship was in the wars of France in time of Edward II. It is said that, however, he little minded secular business, but devoted the principal part of his time to conversations with the canons of Merton and Coverham. He married 1st Ephemia de Clavering and 2nd Margaret Thweng. He died April 18, 1331, buried at Coverham. Euphemia, is also called Anastasia FitzRobert, and was great-granddaughter of John FitzRobert, Surety for the Observance of the Magna Carta.

Family/Spouse: Euphemia de Clavering. Euphemia (daughter of Lord of Warkworth and Clavering Robert FitzRoger and Margery la Zouche) was born about 1266 in Whalton, Northumbeland, England; died about 1320; was buried in Staindrop, Durham, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Ralph Neville 2nd Baron Neville de Raby was born about 1291 in Raby, Durham, England; died on 5 Aug 1367 in Raby, Durham, England.

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Robert Nevill, married Mary, eldest daughter and co-heir of Ralph Fitz-Randolph, Lord of Middleham, by which marriage he acquired that manor, with the Manor of Houton, County Norfolk and Snape County, York. He died in the lifetime of his father.

Robert married Mary FitzRandolph. Mary (daughter of Lord Middleham Ralph FitzRandolph and Anastacia de Percy) was born in 1240 in Middleham, Yorkshire, England; died in 1320; was buried in Coverham. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Mary FitzRandolph was a rich, religious and benevolent woman, who married Robert de Nevill, Lord of Raby, and it is known that the Castle of Middleham passed into his possession. Robert died June 6, 1271, in the lifetime of his father, and Mary died 1320 and is buried at Coverham, having survived her husband forty-nine years.

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Robert de Nevill, Lord of Raby, Governor of Norham, Werke and Bamborough Castles 1258; Warden of Forrests, north of Trent, 1261; Sheriff of Workshire, Governor of York Castle 1263, of Piekering Castle 1266 and Bamborough 1270; died 1282. He had livery in the 30th of Henry III (1246) upon doing his fealty of all the lands, which he inherited from his grandfather, Robert Fitz-Maldred. In 42 of same reign (1265) he had a military summons to march to the relief of the King of Scotland, and was then constituted Governor of Castles of Norham and Werke. In 1258 he was one of the Barons who undertook for the Ordinances of Oxford. (The Provisions of Oxford were articles constituting a preliminary scheme of Reform enacted by a Parliament which met at Oxford, England, June 11, 1258. King Henry III had promised on May 2, 1258, that the state of his realm should be rectified and reformed by 24 counsellors who were to meet at Oxford for this purpose 12 weeks later. Twelve of the Counsellors were chosen by the King and 12 by the Earls and Barons.)

Robert married Isabella Bertram. Isabella was born in 1221 in Mitford, Northumberland, England; died in 1282. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Ralph married Anastacia de Percy. Anastacia (daughter of 6th Baron Percy William de Percy and Joan de Briwere) was born in 1218 in Alnwick, Northumberland, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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William de Percy was only 15 when his father died, and now became by right Baron de Percy, but his uncle, Richard de Percy, found no difficulty in usurping not only the administering of the entire estates of the family, but even the baronial title as well. He married Eleana, daughter of Inglegram de Baliol, and her relatives gradually induced William to assert himself. Richard defied every effort to dislodge him, and when the King himself was appealed to, a compromise was effected by which Richard was left in undisputed possession of the barony and estates until his death, after which William was to inherit both, to the exclusion of the usurper's sons, who died sine prole. When William, 7th Baron Percy, at length came into his own, he was in his 52nd year, and died in 1245.

Died:
Age: 52

William married Joan de Briwere. Joan (daughter of 2nd Lord of Horsley William de Briwere and Beatrice de Vaux) was born in 1187 in Stoke, Devonshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]