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John de Neville

Male - Bef 1246


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  • Name John de Neville 
    Birth of Little Hallingbury, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Gender Male 
    Death Bef 8 Jun 1246  [1, 2, 3
    Burial Waltham Abbey, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Person ID I2140  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
    Last Modified 17 May 2021 

    Father Hugh de Neville,   b. of Great Hallingbury, Bishop's Stortford, Essex, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 21 Jul 1234 
    Mother Joan de Cornhill   d. Between 1224 and 1230 
    Marriage Bef 30 Apr 1200  [1, 3
    Family ID F6196  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Hawise de Courtenay,   b. of Okehampton, Devon, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Bef 8 Apr 1269 
    Marriage Bef 15 Feb 1230  [4, 5
    Children 
    +1. Joan de Neville   d. Bef 1280
    Family ID F4277  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 28 Dec 2015 

  • Notes 
    • Chief Forester and Justice of the King's Forests throughout England. Notable for having achieved the distinction of being excessively tyrannical and oppressive even by the standards of the early thirteenth century.

      Complete Peerage: "On 21 October 1235 he was appointed Chief Forester and justice of the whole of the King's Forest through England. He was one of the English notables who sailed with Richard, Earl of Cornwall, for Palestine from Marseilles in 1240. After his return to England he was so rapacious and oppressive in the execution of his office that, upon evidence obtained by commission, he escaped prison only by a very heavy fine. He retired in disgrace to Wethersfield, where he died soon afterwards."

  • Sources 
    1. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013.

    2. [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing., year only.

    3. [S128] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant ed. Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Duncan Warrand, Howard de Walden, Geoffrey H. White and R. S. Lea. 2nd edition. 14 volumes (1-13, but volume 12 spanned two books), London, The St. Catherine Press, 1910-1959. Volume 14, "Addenda & Corrigenda," ed. Peter W. Hammond, Gloucestershire, Sutton Publishing, 1998.

    4. [S142] Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families by Douglas Richardson. Salt Lake City, 2013., year only.

    5. [S72] Chris Phillips, Some Corrections and Additions to The Complete Peerage.