Isabel de Neville

  General Notes:

Robert Fitz Maldred, Lord of Raby and Brancepth, Durham, in 1194/95-1242/48, born sometime around 1070/74, and died sometime between Aug 1242 and 26 May 1248. He went overseas in an expedition against Wales, Aug 1242. He was married to Isabel de Neville who died May 1254, and was the daughter of Geoffrey de Neville. Geoffrey died sometime around 1193. He was the Lord of Ashy, Lincolnshire and was married to Emma de Bulmer, who died circa 1208, Emma was the duaghter and heir of Bertram de Blumer.

~Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, 247:25 ¹⁶⁰

  Noted events in her life were:

• Background Information. ⁷²¹
Isabel de Neville was the sister and heir of Henry de Neville. She died in 1254, and had been married to Robert Fitz Maldred, lord of Raby and Brancepeth, in Durham. He died between 1242, when a fine was levied before him while he was justice, and 26 May 1248, when his widow married Gilbert de Brakenberg from Lincolnshire.

~Boyer's The Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 186

• Background Information. ¹⁴⁰⁶
Isabel was the daughter of Geoffrey de Neville and Emma de Bulmer. The son an heir of Geoffrey and Emma, Henry, died in 1227 without heirs, and his sister Isabel succeeded to the former Bulmer holdings such as Sheriff Hutton and Brancepeth. Isabel married a "Saxon" Robert Fitz Meldred, Lord of Raby who died in 1253. The son & heir of Isabel and Robert, Geoffrey took his mother's name to be Geoffrey de Neville.

~Saxon Survivors?, p. 39

• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Isabel de Neville, sister and heir, married Robert Fitz Maldred, lord of Raby and Brancepeth, co. Durham, who 17 Mar 1227, gave 200 marks for his relief on succession to her inheritance in Yorks, Lincs, and Durham. In 1230, Robert was going overseas in the King's service; in 1235, was named a commissioner to collect an aid in Northumberland, but was superseded; was a commissioner to hold pleas in Durham in 1238, and summoned for the Welsh expedition in Aug 1241. The date of his death is uncertain; he must have lived to be a very old man, and died between 25 June 1242 and 26 May 1248 when his widow Isabel de Neville, had married Gilbert de Brakenberg, a Lincs tenant of the fee of Bayeux. She was dead on May 1254.

~Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. IX, p. 494

Isabel married Robert Fitz Maldred Lord of Raby, son of Maldred Fitz Dolfin Lord of Raby and Joan de Stuteville ^141,160.^,721 (Robert Fitz Maldred Lord of Raby was born about 1174 in Raby, Durham, England ¹⁴⁰¹ and died on 25 Jun 1242-26 May 1248 in Raby, Durham, England ¹⁴¹.)