Robert Neville (military)

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Funerary monument for Robert Neville in the parish church of Brancepeth. Illustration from the 19th century.

Sir Robert Neville (* before 1291; † June 6, 1319 near Berwick ) was an English military man. Because of his boast, he was referred to as the Peacock of the North ( German  Pfau des Nordens ).

Robert Neville was the eldest son of Ranulph Neville, 1st Baron Neville de Raby and his wife Euphemia Clavering . As a young knight he fought in Scotland during the Scottish War of Independence . In the Battle of Roslin in 1303 he came to the aid of another division of the English army with his troops and was able to free John Seagrave , the English governor in Scotland, who had already been captured . In 1314 Neville took part in the campaign of King Edward II of England to Scotland. He got into Scottish captivity at the Battle of Bannockburn . After his release, he continued to serve on the Scottish border. In 1316 he killed Richard Fitzmarmaduke , the administrator of the lands of Bishop Louis de Beaumont, during a dispute on Elvet Bridge in Durham . In June 1319 he belonged with his brothers Ralph , Alexander and John to a force that made an advance to Berwick . They were put and beaten by a Scottish force under James Douglas . While his brothers were captured, Robert was killed. The date of the engagement and Robert's death is not certain. According to other sources, the battle did not take place until September 1319 during the English siege of Berwick , but this is considered unlikely. Robert was in the parish of Brancepeth in County Durham buried where his grave monument is preserved.

Robert had married an Elena (also Ellen ) in 1315 or 1316 , whose origin is unknown. However, the marriage had remained childless. After his death, his younger brother Ralph became her father's heir.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ St Brandon's Brancepeth: The Brancepeth Story. Retrieved May 27, 2020 .
  2. ^ Geoffrey WS Barrow: Robert Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland . Eyre & Spottiswoode, London 1965, p. 178.
  3. ^ Charles Robert Young: Making of the Neville family in England, 1166-1400 . Boydell, Woodbridge 1996, ISBN 0-85115-668-1 , p. 101.
  4. ^ Geoffrey WS Barrow: Robert Bruce and the Community of the Realm of Scotland . Eyre & Spottiswoode, London 1965, p. 340.
  5. ↑ Anthony Tuck: Neville, Ralph, fourth Lord Neville (c. 1291-1367). 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 Neville, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neville, Sir Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English military
DATE OF BIRTH 13th Century
DATE OF DEATH uncertain: June 6, 1319
Place of death at Berwick