Alan de Neville

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• Name	Alan de Neville
  Birth	of Walcot near Folkingham, Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1178  [1]
  Siblings	1 sibling
  + 1. Gilbert de Neville   d. Bef 1169 + 2. Alan de Neville ,   b. of Walcot near Folkingham, Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England d. 1178
  Person ID	I9513	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, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK, Ancestor of UKL
  Last Modified	6 Jan 2018

  
  

  Father	Geoffrey de Neville,   b. of Walcot near Folkingham, Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England d. Abt 1146
  Family ID	F1418	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Children	+ 1. Geoffrey de Neville,   b. of Grafton, Wiltshire, England d. Bef 15 Jan 1226 + 2. Ralph de Neville,   b. Between 1202 and 1212, of Scotton, Lincolnshire, England
  Family ID	F1247	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Dec 2015

  
  

• Notes

  Judge of the Court of Exchequer, 1165; Justice of the Forest throughout England, 1165-77. From the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography: The first mention of pleas, probably forest pleas, held by him occurs in Wiltshire in 1163. Neville supported the king in his quarrel with Archbishop Thomas Becket, and was twice excommunicated by the latter -- in 1166 and 1168. About 1166 he was appointed Henry II's chief forester, and he held forest pleas in many counties in 1166 and 1167. According to Roger of Howden, Neville remained chief forester until his death, when he was succeeded by Thomas son of Bernard. Neville's death took place about 1176. Alan de Neville was widely hated for the vigour with which he enforced the forest laws. The chronicler of Battle Abbey said that he used the power the king had given him to enrich his master by harrying various counties of England with numerous and unaccustomed inquiries; since he feared neither God nor man, he spared no man of rank, whether churchman or layman. Confirmation that great men feared him comes from an official source; the treasurer, Richard fitz Nigel, reported that the justiciar Robert, earl of Leicester, obtained a special writ from the king in order more easily to avoid the pressing demands of Neville's men (Alaniorum). When Neville was dying, a monastic community asked the king for Neville's body for burial; the king replied 'I will have his wealth, you shall have his corpse, and the demons of Hell shall have his soul' (Chronicle of Battle Abbey, 223). Regarding his possible wife: In a post to SGM dated 14 Oct 2001, Rosie Bevan quotes an early pedigree from "a series of articles in the later volumes of The Genealogist (IIRC vols 26-30ish) about the various branches of the Neville families by Edmund R. Nevill" which states that this Alan de Neville married "Juliana da of Robert Canu." The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, in its article about Alan de Neville, states that he "is first recorded in 1138, in the retinue of Count Waleran of Meulan, whose butler he became with an annual fee of 100s. About this time he married a daughter of a baron of the honour of Pont Audemar." Dictionnaire historique, géographique, statistique de toutes les communes de l'Eure by M. Charpillon, 1868, p. 39, describes "Julienne, fille de Robert Canu" of Pont Audemer, as the wife of Alain de Beuzeville.

  
  

• Sources

  [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.