Alan de Neville (forester)
Alan de Neville | |
|---|---|
| Chief Forester | |
| In office 1166–1176 | |
| Monarch | King Henry II of England |
| Personal details | |
| Died | c. 1176 |
Alan de Neville (sometimes Alan de Neuville;
Early life
Alan was a descendant of Gilbert de Neville, a minor landholder in
Neville first appears in the historical record as the
Royal service
In 1153, Neville was serving the future King Henry.[5] In 1156, Neville was exempted from paying danegeld on his lands in Lincolnshire, some of which were lands held previously by Gilbert de Neville.[10] Henry also granted Neville lands around Marlborough around this time, and he may have later had custody of Marlborough Castle, as his son Ives was in charge of work done on the castle in 1176.[4] By 1163, Neville was in charge of hearing the pleas of the forest in Oxfordshire, and possibly also Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Leicestershire, Warwickshire, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, and Northamptonshire.[11]
Neville was present at the
Neville supported the king during the
During 1166, Neville was in charge of Staffordshire for the
Death and legacy
Married to the daughter of the lord of Pont Audemer,
The Chronicle of Battle Abbey claimed that Neville "most evilly vexed the various provinces throughout England with countless and unaccustomed persecutions".[2] The Chronicle also noted that Neville was equally strict in collecting from either clergy or non-clergy.[25] According to the historian Robert Bartlett, Neville's exactions earned him a "reputation for harshness verging on extortion".[21]
Citations
- ^ Crouch Reign of King Stephen p. 153
- ^ a b Quoted in Warren Henry II p. 390
- ^ Young Making of the Neville Family p. 7
- ^ a b c d Young Making of the Neville Family pp. 12–13
- ^ a b c d e f g Crook "Neville, Alan de" Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- ^ a b Crouch Beaumont Twins p. 36
- ^ Crouch Beaumont Twins p. 148
- ^ Crouch Beaumont Twins p. 32
- ^ Crouch Beaumont Twins p. 143
- ^ Young Making of the Neville Family p. 8
- ^ Warren Henry II p. 285 and footnote 5
- ^ Crouch Beaumont Twins p. 143 note 35
- ^ Huscroft Ruling England p. 168
- ^ Carpenter Struggle for Mastery pp. 197–198
- ^ Barlow Thomas Becket p. 149
- ^ Barlow Thomas Becket p. 160
- ^ Richardson and Sayles Governance of Mediaeval England p. 199
- ^ Crouch Beaumont Twins p. 92
- ^ Carpenter Struggle for Mastery p. 226
- ^ Crook "Earliest Exchequer Estreat" Records, Administration and Aristocratic Society p. 32
- ^ a b Bartlett England Under the Norman and Angevin Kings p. 170
- ^ Quoted in Bartlett England Under the Norman and Angevin Kings p. 170
- ^ a b Cockayne Complete Peerage IX pp. 478–479
- ^ Young Making of the Neville Family p. 19
- ^ Young Making of the Neville Family p. 11
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- Crook, David (2009). "The Earliest Exchequer Estreat and the Forest Eyres of Henry II and Thomas fitz Bernard, 1175–80". In Vincent, Nicholas (ed.). Records, Administration and Aristocratic Society in the Anglo-Norman Realm: Papers Commemorating the 800th Anniversary of King John's Loss of Normandy. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press. pp. 29–44. ISBN 978-1-84383-485-4.
- Crook, David (2004). "Neville, Alan de (d. c.1176)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (January 2008 ed.). Oxford University Press. required)
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- Young, Charles R. (1996). The Making of the Neville Family in England 1155–1400. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press. ISBN 0-85115-668-1.