Geoffrey de Neville Lord of Ashby

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• Background Information. ¹⁴¹
Geoffrey de Neville, son and heir to his father, must have been of age in 1161, when, with his father, he was pardoned part of the due on their Arsic fee. From the Spring of 1162, £15 of yearly issue of the Crown soke of Horncastle, where in his hands, representing a grant of Ashby and Toynton. He gave land in Burreth and Toynton and the church of St. German of Ranby to Tupholme. In Sep 1184, he was on circuit as a Justice of Yorkshire.

Geoffrey de Neville married, before Michalmas 1176, Emma, daughter of Bertram of Bulmer and his wife Emma, daughter of Robert Fossard. Geoffrey was dead by Michaelmas 1193, and Emma, by 1208.

~ Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, Vol. IX, (Neville), p. 493

• Background Information. ^721,722
Geoffrey de Neville, Lord of Neville, was of age in 1161 at a time when he and his father were pardoned part of their dues on their Arsic fee, and he was likely dead before Michealmass 1193. At this time, his wife Emma paid a fine to have her inheritance in peace until King Richard I returned home from the Crusades. Emma and Geoffrey were married some time before Michaelmas 1176. Emma was the daughter of Betram de Bulmer, and possibly Emma, daughter of Robert Fossard. This was Emma's second marriage, before being the wife of Geoffrey de Valoignes, who died in 1169. Emma was also the heir of her brother William and the granddaughter Ansketil de Bulmer, who was steward of Robert Fossand. Ansketil de Bulmer may have been married to the heiress of Piers de Humez of Brancepeth.

~Boyer's The Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell, p. 185-186

~Boyer's The Medieval English Ancestors of Certain Americans, p. 177, Children, Henry, d. 1227, Isabel, married Robert Fitz Maldred, lord of Raby, William and Walter

Geoffrey married Emma de Bulmer, daughter of Bertram de Bulmer and Emma Fossard, before 1176 in England.⁷²² (Emma de Bulmer died about 1208 ¹⁴¹.)