Alan de Neville

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• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
~ Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. IX, p 502a, Gilbert and his brother Alan were cofounders of Tupholme Abbey. He was Justice of the forest and father of Geoffrey de Neville, Chamberlain to King John. Children of Alan de Neville were:

Alan de Neville, the younger, an assistance Justice of the Forest, 1169 - abt 1190. His wife was named Juliane.
Geoffrey de Neville, 1206, he had liscense to mortgage his lands.
Thomas de Neville
Ives de Neville
Ralph de Neville


Alan de Neville, brother of Gilbert and probably sons of Geoffrey de Neville of Walcot, Lincolnshire, was a judge of the Court of Exchequer in 1165, and Justice of the Forest throughout England, 1165-1177. He supported the King in his policy of submitting the clergy to the law of the land, and was excommunicated by Becket in 1166. With his brother Gilbert, he founded the abbey of Tupholme in Lincolnshire, 1156-1166, and was a benefactor of Kirkstead and Bordesley abbeys. He died 1177/78.

~ Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Neville) Vol. IX, p. 478

• Background Information. ⁷⁹²
Alan de Neville (Novavilla) is mentioned as one of the 'assidentes justiciæ regis' in the Exchequer in 11 Henry II, before whom a charter was executed between the abbots of St. Alban's and Westminster; and from 12 Henry II for many years he filled the office of justice of the forests throughout all England [Madox, i. 44, 144].

According to Dugdale, he was the brother of Gilbert de Neville, of Lincolnshire, Rutland and Oxfordshire. Alan de Neville held the forest of Savernac in Wilshire, and was one of the lords of the council who, for the energy of their measures in support of the king against Becket, were excommunicated in 1166; but afterwards, received absolution from Gilbert Foliot, Bishop of London, on condition that he should go to Rome and submeit himself to the pope. Alan de Neville died 2 Richard I, leaving two sons, Alan and Geoffrey.

~Biographia Juridica, p. 474