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Birth:          18 Oct 1262 Middleham, Yorkshire, England
Death:          18 Apr 1332 Raby Castle, Durham, England

Notes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_la_Zouche_(1205%E2%80%931270)
as Ralph Neville
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jweber&id=I10631
Randolph or Ranulf de Neville, 1st Lord (Baron) Neville (of Raby), so created 
(according to later doctrine) by writ of summons to Parliament 24 June 1295; b 18 Oct 
1262; found guilty 1313 of incest with his daughter, Anastasia, Lady de Faucomberge. 
[Burke's Peerage]

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BARONY OF NEVILLE of Raby (I) 1205

RANDOLF or RANULPH (sometimes called, seemingly in error, RALPH, son and heir of 
Robert DE NEVILLE and Mary his wife, was born 18 October 1262, and was heir to 
the Neville estates on the death of his grandfather, in 1282 (having livery under writ of 
11 January 1283/4), and to his mother's inheritance, April 1320. He was summoned, 
15 July 1287, with horses and arms to a military council at Gloucester (before Edmund, 
Earl of Cornwall, in the King's absence abroad), and to attend the King at 
Westminster, June 1294. He was summoned to Parliament from 24 June 1295 to 18 
February 1330/1, by writs directed Ranulpho (and Radulpho) de Neville, whereby he is 
held to have become LORD NEVILLE. For service in Scotland he was summoned 1291 
and in later years; for service in Gascony, 1294, 1297 and 1324; and against the 
rebels under the Earl of Lancaster, 1322. His seal, as Dominus de Rahy, was attached 
to the letter of the Barons to the Pope, February 1300/1. In 1303 he was chief of the 
delegates summoned by the King to set forth the grievances of the people against the 
Bishop of Durham. He, or possibly his son Ralph, was commissioner of array in 
Durham, 1322, in the North Riding of Yorks, 1324, and in Northumberland, 1324 and 
1326; in 1325 Keeper of the Peace and one of the specially appointed keepers of the 
coast in Northumberland, and in 1326 one of the commissioners to impress shipping in 
the ports of that county.

He married, 1stly, Eupheme, daughter of Robert FITZROGER, LORD FITZROGER (see 
CLAVERING), and, 2ndly, Margery, daughter of John DE THWENG, by whom he had 
no issue. He died shortly after 18 April 1331. [Complete Peerage IX:497-8, transcribed 
by Dave Utzinger]

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In 1313 he was excommunicated for the crime of incest and adultery with his 
daughter, Anastasia, for which Bishop Kellawe of Durham compelled him to do 
penance. [Magna Carta Ancestry, Douglas Richardson, 2005, page 617.]

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Randolph de Neville, b. 18 Oct 1262, d. shortly after 18 Apr 1331, 1st Lord Neville of 
Raby. [Magna Charta Sureties]

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First Baron Neville of Raby
Became heir to mothers lands

Ranulph held eight adjoining lordships in the Prior of Durham. He had numerous 
disputes with the Bishop of Durhan concerning his responsibilities. He was convicted 
of incest with a daughter and made to do public penance for the crime. He was 
summoned to Parliament in 1295 as Lord Neville of Raby and served until his death 
(1331)

Some say he is incorrectly called Ralph. He was one of the signers of a letter to Pope 
Boniface VIII (1292-1303) drawn up in a parliament convened in Lincoln by Edward I 
on January 23, 1301. This letter set forth the rights of the Crown to Scotland and 
strongly disapproved of the Pope's other actions in regard to England. Ranulphus was 
a champion of civil liberties, a soldier in Gascony and Scotland, yet has been much 
maligned. His mother was heiress to her father's estate but she does not appear to 
have held Ranulphus in much esteem as she settled them on her grandson, Robert.

Buried at Coverham Abby.

some show marriage in 1282, some show death as October 29, 1331.
was in wars with France and Scotland

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Ranulf, or Ralph, de Nevill, being in minority at the time of his grandfather's decease 
[in 1282], obtained liberty of the king that his friends might plough and manage his 
lands and, in the 13th Edward I [1285], had livery of certain manors, part of his 
inheritance. Soon after this, he had a warm contest with the prior of Durham about the 
presentation of a stag upon St. Cuthbert's Day, in September, "which, in truth," says 
Dugdale, "was rather a rent than an obligation, in regard he held Raby with the eight 
adjoining townships by the yearly rent of £4 and a stag. For, contrary to the custom of 
his ancestors, he not only required that the prior of Durham, at the offering of that 
stag, ought to feast him and all the company he should bring, but that the prior's own 
menial servants should, for that time, be set aside, and his peculiar servants and 
officers be put in their stead. Whereupon, amongst other of his guests, he invited 
John de Baliol, of Barnard Castle, who refused to go with him, alleging that he never 
knew the Nevills to have such a privilege there; Sir William de Bromtpon, the bishop's 
chief justice, likewise acknowledging that he himself was the first that began the 
extravagant practice for being a young man and delighting in hunting, he came with 
the Lord Nevill at the offering of the stag and said to his companions, 'Come, let us go 
to the abbey and wind our horns,' and so they did. The prior father adding, that before 
the time of this Ranulph, none of his predecessors ever made any such claim, but 
when they brought the stag into the hall, they had only a breakfast, nor did the lord 
ever stay dinner, except he were invited."

This Ranulph was summoned to parliament as a Baron, 8 June, 1294, and from that 
period to 18 February, 1331. His lordship was in the wars of France, temp. Edward I, 
and in those of Scotland in the next reign. It is said, however, that he little minded 
secular business but devoted the principal part of his time to conversation with the 
canons of Merton and Coverham, upon whom he bestowed some considerable grants. 
He m. 1st, Euphemia, dau. of Robert and sister of John de Clavering, and had two 
sons, Robert and Ralph, and two daus., Margaret and Anastasia. His lordship m. 
2ndly, Margery, dau. of John, son of Marmaduke de Thweng, but had no issue. He d. 
in 1331, was buried on the south side of the altar at Coverham, and was s. by his only 
surviving son, Ralph de Nevill. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and 
Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 392-3, Nevill, Barons 
Nevill, of Raby, Earls of Westmoreland]

Parents
DE NEVILLE Robert (ABT 1240 - 6 Jun 1271)
FITZ RANDOLPH Mary (ABT 1244 - 11 Apr 1320)

Siblings
DE NEVILLE Randolf (Ralph) (18 Oct 1262 - 18 Apr 1332)

Marriage To FIT ZROGER CLAVERING Euphemia (ABT 1267 - 1329)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
FITZ ROGER CLAVERING Roger (Robert) (1247 - 29 Apr 1310)
LA ZOUCHE Margery (Mary) (ABT 1246 - )

Children by FIT ZROGER CLAVERING Euphemia ABT 1267 - 1329
NEVILLE Ralph (ABT 1291 - 5 Aug 1367)

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