Hugh de Neville

- Bef 1234

• Name	Hugh de Neville  [1]
  Birth	of Great Hallingbury, Bishop's Stortford, Essex, England   [2, 3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Bef 21 Jul 1234  [2, 3, 5, 6]
  Alternate death	Bef 31 Jul 1234  [4]
  Burial	Waltham Abbey, Essex, England   [2, 3, 5]
  Person ID	I11041	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of EK, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of LDN, Ancestor of LMW, Ancestor of TNH
  Last Modified	1 Sep 2018

  
  

  Father	Ralph de Neville,   b. Between 1202 and 1212, of Scotton, Lincolnshire, England
  Mother	(Unknown) Rafin
  Family ID	F1600	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Joan de Cornhill   d. Between 1224 and 1230
  Marriage	Bef 30 Apr 1200  [2, 3]
  Children	+ 1. John de Neville,   b. of Little Hallingbury, Essex, England d. Bef 8 Jun 1246 + 2. Joan de Nevill   d. Aft 1274
  Family ID	F6196	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	29 Jan 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Chief Forester and Justice of the King's Forest; Sheriff of Essex and Hertfordshire 1197-1200, 1202-4; Keeper of the Seaports from Cornwall to Hampshire. Raised at the court of Henry II as an intimate of Richard, whom he accompanied to the Holy Land on the Third Crusade in 1190. Present at the siege of Jaffa. It was Richard who first appointed him forester, an office he retained under John, but his relationship with the latter king was less smooth. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: "As chief forester he was largely free of supervision by the king's exchequer at Westminster; he held his own exchequer of the forest, which is known to have sat at Marlborough and Nottingham, and was directly accountable to the king, who, however, sometimes intervened personally. Neville's position during John's reign was very powerful, since he was one of the king's closest advisers and agents, but his relationship with his royal master was a turbulent one. Several times he had to pay large fines to the king when his actions did not find favour. His wife may have been one of the women who suffered from the amorous attentions of the king, since in 1204 she made a fine of 200 shillings 'to lie one night with her husband' (Rotuli de oblatis et finibus ... tempore Regis Johannis ed. T. D. Hardy, RC, 1835, 275). In 1212 Neville was forced to pay a fine of 6000 marks, ostensibly for allowing the escape of two knights captured at Carrickfergus in 1210, but it seems also to have covered his misdeeds in administering the northern forests and his tenure of the lands of the bishopric of Salisbury during the interdict. Soon afterwards he was dismissed as sheriff of Hampshire, and as keeper of the county and forest of Cumberland, which he had held since 1209; some of the debt was, however, pardoned later. He witnessed Magna Carta in 1215, but before John's death joined the baronial party, to whom he brought the possession of Marlborough Castle." For this he lost his office and some of his estates. He made peace with Henry III but did not return to office until 1224; his remaining years as forester were caught up in the complex disputes over forest boundaries between the counties and the central government. He was ultimately dismissed on 8 Oct 1229.

  
  

• Sources

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