John de Neville

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John de Neville († before June 8, 1246 in Wethersfield , Essex ) was chief royal forest judge during the reign of King Henry III of England .

John de Neville was a son of Hugh de Neville and his first wife Joan de Cornhill. His father, who was chief forest judge for many years until 1229, died in 1234. After his father's death, he was given lifelong bailiwick of the royal forests in Oxfordshire , Northamptonshire , Buckinghamshire and Huntingdonshire for a fee . In 1235, like his father, he was appointed chief forest judge in England. In 1240 he was one of the crusaders who joined Richard of Cornwall on the barons' crusadeset off. After his return he exercised his office as a forest judge in such a predatory and violent manner that he was deposed in 1244 and could only avoid conviction by paying a heavy fine. After his death in 1246 he was buried like his father in Waltham Abbey in Essex.

Family and offspring

Neville had married Hawise de Courtenay, a daughter of Sir Robert de Courtenay. He had at least three children with her:

  • John de Neville († before 1282)
  • Joan de Neville ∞ Sir Henry de la Mare
  • Hugh de Neville (before 1240 – before 1269)

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David Crook: Neville, Hugh de (d. 1234). In: Henry Colin Gray Matthew, Brian Harrison (Eds.): Oxford Dictionary of National Biography , from the earliest times to the year 2000 (ODNB). Oxford University Press, Oxford 2004, ISBN 0-19-861411-X , ( oxforddnb.com license required ), as of 2004
personal data
SURNAME De Neville, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English nobleman and chief forest judge
DATE OF BIRTH 12th century or 13th century
DATE OF DEATH before June 8, 1246