Geoffrey de Neville , Governor Scarsboro Castle 
Geoffrey de was born about 1220 in Raby Castle, Durham, England. Geoffrey de's father was Geoffrey 1st Baron de Neville , Sir and his mother was Joan of Monmouth. He had a brother named Robert 2nd Baron de. He was the younger of the two children. He had a half-sister named Agnes de. He died on March 26th, 1285.General Notes
Wife brought him Hoton Longvillers and other manors to include Hornby which became another Neville branch.
By marriage he added lands in Lincolnshire, Lancashier and Yorkshire.
A Justice Itinerant
1264-captured at battle of Lewes, released in exchange
1270-governor of Scarborough Castle
1270-1285, Chief Justice of Forest in North England
1273-1276, served as Royal Justice under Edward I
1275-appointed chief assessor in Cumberland and Lancashier Counties
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Geoffrey de Nevill, in the 54th Henry III [1270], was constituted governor of Scarborough Castle and a justice itinerant. He m. Margaret, dau. and heir of Sir John Longvillers, of Hornby Castle, in Lancashire, and d. in the 13th Edward I [1285], being then seized of the manor of Appleby and other lands in Lincolnshire, the castle and manor of Hornby, co. Lancaster, and Hoton-Longvillers and other manors in Yorkshire, the entire of which he acquired by his wife. He was ancestor of the Nevills of Hornby. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, 1883, p. 392, Nevill, Barons Nevill, of Raby, Earls of Westmoreland]
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