General Notes

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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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]