Alan de Neville (landholder)

Alan de Neville held lands around 1168 at Ashby, Lincolnshire, and should not be confused with another Alan de Neville who held the office of chief forester under King Henry II of England.Crook "Neville, Alan de", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography The exact family relationships of the various Neville family members in the 12th and early 13th centuries are difficult to understand and distinguish. Historian Nicholas Vincent went so far as to describe the family's relationships as "a veritable labyrinth into which many a genealogical enquiry has vanished without trace".Vincent "Origins of the Chancellorship of the Exchequer" English Historical Review p. 118 The landholder at Ashby is frequently known as "Alan Junior" in contemporary records to distinguish him from the forester.Young Making of the Neville Family pp. 13–15 The landholder at Ashby was perhaps the brother of Gilbert de Neville, as Alan along with Gilbert co-founded Tupholme Abbey at Tupholme in Lincolnshire.Keat-Rohan Domesday Descendants p. 610 Charles R. Young argues that the younger Alan is the son of the Chief Forester, based on the fact that in the 12th century the use of "Junior" meant that the person named that was either a son or a nephew of the person with the same name.Young Making of the Neville Family p. 19 The Complete Peerage entry for the Neville family of Essex gives the landholder at Ashby as the son of the Chief Forester also,Cokayne Complete Peerage IX pp. 478–479{{efn|The Complete Peerage also has the Chief Forester as the co-founder of Tupholme Abbey, however.}} as do the historians H. G. Richardson and G. O. Sayles.Richardson and Sayles Governance of Mediaeval England pp. 203, 504

According to Katharine Keats-Rohan, Neville had four sons – Alan, Geoffrey, Thomas, and Ivo. Young, however, says that Neville died without direct heirs and his lands went to his brother Geoffrey de Neville and nephew Hugh de Neville. The person of the same name who was holder of the forest pleas in Lincolnshire in 1169 and 1170 may have been this Alan de Neville.{{efn|The holder of the forest pleas may have also been charged with enforcing the Assize of Clarendon.Turner English Judiciary p. 18}} The Neville in charge of forest justice acted either alone or in concert with William Basset.Richardson "Richard fitz Neal" English Historical Review p. 168{{efn|Neville and Basset were responsible for the counties of Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire, Cumberland, Northumberland, Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, and Warwickshire. Neville alone was responsible for Berkshire, Wiltshire, and Somerset.}}

It is also likely that Neville held lands in Amesbury in Wiltshire, as a widow of an Alan de Neville was given the lands of her husband who died before Michaelmas in 1190. This widow, Juliane de Neville, held the lands for a 100-pound fine.Cokayne Complete Peerage IX pp. i–viii Young argues that the justice in charge of forest pleas in 1169 and 1170 and the man who died in 1190 were the same as the co-founder of Tupholme.

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• {{cite book |author=Cokayne, George E. |title=The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct, or Dormant |publisher=A. Sutton |location=Gloucester, UK |year=1982 |volume=IX |isbn= 0-904387-82-8 |edition=Microprint|author-link= George Cokayne}}
• {{cite encyclopedia | author=Crook, David |title=Neville, Alan de (d. c.1176) |encyclopedia= Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |publisher= Oxford University Press |year=2004 |edition= January 2008 |url=http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19921 |access-date=2 January 2016 | doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/19921 }} {{ODNBsub}}
• {{cite book |author=Keats-Rohan, K. S. B. |author-link= Katharine Keats-Rohan |title=Domesday Descendants: A Prosopography of Persons Occurring in English Documents, 1066–1166: Pipe Rolls to Cartae Baronum |publisher=Boydell Press |location=Ipswich, UK |year=2002 |isbn=0-85115-863-3 }}
• {{cite journal |author=Richardson, H. G. |title=Richard fitz Neal and the Dialogus de Scaccario |journal=The English Historical Review |volume=43 |issue=170 |date=April 1928 |pages=161–171 |doi=10.1093/ehr/XLIII.CLXX.161 |jstor= 552059 |s2cid=159685164 }}
• {{cite book |author1=Richardson, H. G. |author2= Sayles, G. O. |author2-link= G. O. Sayles |title= The Governance of Mediaeval England: From the Conquest to Magna Carta |year= 1963|publisher= Edinburgh University Press |location= Edinburgh, UK |oclc= 504298 }}
• {{cite book |author= Turner, Ralph V. |title=The English Judiciary in the age of Glanvill and Bracton, c. 1176–1239 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge, UK |year=2008 |edition=Reprint |isbn=0-521-07242-5 }}
• {{cite journal |author= Vincent, Nicholas C. |date=January 1993 |title=The Origins of the Chancellorship of the Exchequer |journal=The English Historical Review |volume=108 |issue=426 |pages=105–121 |doi=10.1093/ehr/CVIII.426.105 |jstor= 573551 |s2cid=159622942}}
• {{cite book |author=Young, Charles R.|title= The Making of the Neville Family in England 1155–1400 |year=1996 |publisher= Boydell Press |location= Woodbridge, UK |isbn=0-85115-668-1 }}

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