The Genealogy of the House Neville

The Neville Coat of Arms of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmoreland, encircled by the Order of the Garter

The Family Tree of the Neville Family of Raby, Middleham and Sheriff Hutton

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The Farndale Story The story of one family’s journey through two thousand years of British History

The Farndale Lineages The 83 family lines into which the family is divided. Meet the whole family and how the wider family is related

The Farndale Directory Members of the historical family ordered by date of birth

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The Neville Tombs in Durham Cathedral

			Odo of Rennes, Count of Penthičvre d 1079 The ancient House of de Nevilles descended from Odo, Count of Penthičvre in Normandy and his son Ribald In 1069, William the Conqueror had granted the Lordship of Middleham to his Breton cousin Alan Rufus, son of Odo, who built a wooden motte-and-bailey castle above the town. By the time of the Domesday Book, Alan had passed the castle to his brother Ribald Married Agnes of Comouaille			Uhtred
Alan Rufus The Red d 1093 1^st Lord of Richmond	Alan Niger The Black d 1098 2^nd Lord of Richmond	Stephen 1058 to 1135 3^rd Lord of Richmond	Ribald, Lord of Middleham Married Beatrix	The de Brus Family		Dolfin
			Ralph Fitz Ribald, Lord of Middleham Married Agatha de Brus	Agatha de Brus c 1120	Geoffrey de Neville d 1193	Maldred
			Robert Fitz Ranulph, Lord of Middleham Married Heloise de Glenville	Henry de Neville d 1230 No issue	Isabel de Neville d 1248 or 1254	Robert Fitz Maldred, Lord of Raby c 1170 to c1242 or 1248
			Ranulph Fitz Robert, Lord of Middleham d 1251 Married Mary Bigod		Geoffrey de Neville c 1170 to c 1242 Geoffrey adopted the family name of his mother, but retained the arms of the Fitz Maldreds. He inherited the Neville lands and the Fitz Maldred lands. He therefore held the Durham lands centred on Raby, and the Neville lands which included Sheriff Hutton.
			Ralph Fitz Ranulph, Lord of Middleham d 1270 Married Anastasia Percy		Sir Robert de Neville c 1223 to 1282 Married Isabel de Byron
			Mary Fitz Ranulph, The Lady of Middleham 1320 Married Robert Neville	Robert Neville d 1271
				Ranulph de Neville, First Baron Neville 18 October 1262 to 18 April 1331 Married Euphemia de Clavering They had fourteen children
			Robert Neville d 1319 The Peacock of the North	Ralph Neville, 2nd Baron Neville c 1291 to 5 August 1367 Married Alice de Audley (d 1358), the widow of Ralph de Greystoke, 1st Baron Greystoke (who died in 1323), on 14 Jan 1326 and they had thirteen children. Steward of the king's household. The fifth Peter de Mauley, overlord of the Sheriff Hutton lands, released to Sir Ralph de Nevill all his right to his service for those lands so that the Nevilles held Sheriff Hutton directly from the Crown Ralph led the English forces to victory against King David II of Scotland at the Battle of Neville's Cross on 17 October 1346		Edward III 1312 to 1377 Married Philippa of Hainault
			John Neville, 3rd Baron Neville de Raby 1330 to 17 October 1388 Married Maud Percy and later Elizabeth Latimer. A captain under his father at the Battle of Neville’s Cross. He also served in the wars in France. He was made a Knight of the Garter by Edward III and became Admiral of the North.	Edward, Prince of Wales, The Black Prince 1330 to 1376 Married Joan, the Fair Maid of Kent Richard II 1367 to 1400	Lionel of Antwerp, 1^st Duke of Clarence 1338 to 1368	John of Gaunt, 1^st Duke of Lancaster 1340 to 1399 Married Blanche of Lancaster Married Katherine Swynford (1350 to 1403)	Edmund of Langley, 1^st Duke of York 1341 to 1402 Married Isabella of Castile
		Margaret Stafford d 1396	Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmoreland 1346 to 1425 Married Margaret Stafford Married Joan Beaufort, the daughter of the Lancastrian John of Gaunt	Joan Beaufort 1379 to 1440	John Beaufort, 1^st Earl of Somerset 1373 to 1410 Married Margaret Holland Grandfather of Lady Margaret Beaufort who married Edmund Tudor, whose son was Henry VII, who married Elizabeth of York	Henry IV (Henry Bolingbroke) 1367 to 1413	Richard of Conisbrough, 3^rd Earl of Cambridge 1385 to 1415 Married Anne Mortimer
		John Neville c 1387 to 1420 Married Elizabeth Holland Inherited the Stuteville/Kirkbymoorside estates including Farndale through Elizabeth Holland	Richard Neville, 5^th Earl of Salisbury 1400 to 1460 Married Alice Montagu	Cecily Neville 1415 to 1495 Married Richard, Duke of York	Richard, Duke of York 1411 to 1460
Ralph Neville c 1406 to 3 November 1484 2nd Earl of Westmorland 2 Children, both died young	John Neville c 1410 to 29 March 1461 Baron Neville Married Anne Holland	Sir Thomas Neville of Brancepeth Margaret Neville	Richard Neville, 16^th Earl of Warwick, 6^th Earl of Salisbury, The Kingmaker 1428 to 1471 Married Anne Beauchamp (1426 to 1492)	Edward IV 1442 to 1483 Married Elizabeth Woodville	Edmund, Earl of Rutland 1443 to 1460	George, Duke of Clarence 1449 to 1478 Married Isabel Neville (1451 to 1477)	Richard III 1452 to 1485 Married Anne Neville (1456 to 1485)
	Ralph Neville c 1456 to 6 February 1499 3^rd Earl Westmorland Married Isabel Booth	Isabel Neville 1451 to 1477 Married George, 1^st Duke of Clarence	Anne Neville 1456 to 1485 Married Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales (1453 to 1471) Married Richard III	Edward V 1470 to 1483 Reigned from 9 April to 25 June 1483 A Prince in the Tower	Richard, Duke of York 1473 to 1483 A Prince in the Tower	Elizabeth of York 1466 to 1503 Banished to Sheriff Hutton Married Henry VII	Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales 1474 to 1484
	Ralph Neville Died 1498 Lord Neville On 5 December 1485, his father had granted his custody to the King. Married firstly, in the presence of King Henry VII and his Queen, Elizabeth of York, Mary Paston (died about Christmas 1489). No issue from the marriage. Married secondly, again in the royal presence, Edith Sandys (died 22 August 1529)
	Ralph Neville 21 February 1498 to 24 April 1549 4th Earl of Westmorland Married Katherine Stafford	A son who died young	Isabel Neville Married firstly, Sir Robert Plumpton Married secondly, Lawrence Kighley.	Cecilia Neville Married John Weston (died after 1525), of Weeford, Staffordshire
	Henry Neville 1525 to August 1563 5th Earl of Westmorland Married Anne Manners, daughter of Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland. Married Jane, the daughter of Sir Roger Cholmeley Married Jane’s sister Margaret, the widow of Sir Henry Gascoigne	Sir Thomas Neville Edward Neville Christopher Neville George Neville Ralph Neville Cuthbert Neville Dorothy Neville Mary Neville Margaret Neville Elizabeth Neville Eleanor Neville Anne Neville Ursula Neville		Robert Weston Lord Chancellor of Ireland
With Anne Manners Charles Neville 18 August 1542 to 16 November 1601 6th Earl of Westmorland Married Jane Howard in 1563. They had a son and four daughters Led the Rising of the North against Elizabeth I in 1569 He fled first to Scotland but then went into exile in the Spanish Netherlands He died penniless and largely forgotten on 16 November 1601	Eleanor Neville Married William Pelham	Catherine Neville Married Sir John Constable