Geoffrey de Neville
- Born: Hornby Castle, England
- Marriage: Margaret de Longvilliers 141,160
- Died: 26 Mar 1285, England 160,734
 General Notes:
Weis' Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700, 8th Edition, 247:27, Geoffrey de Neville of Hornby Castle, he was Chief Justice of the King's Forests, summoned to Shrewsbury 1285, died shortly before 26 Mar 1285, and married sometime around 1267, Margaret de Lungvilliers who died feb 1318/19, daughter of John de Lungvillers, and a descendant of Aleric, Lord of Hornby, 1066. 160
~History of Barwick-in-Elmet, Geoffrey de Nevil, a cadet of the Raby family and a Justice Itinerat for Pleas of the forest who died in 1285.734
Information about this person:
• Background Information. 141
Geoffrey de Neville acquired feudal importance by his marriage, in or before 1267, with Margaret, daughter and heir of John de Lungvillers. He was appointed, 25 Oct. 1270, chief of the justices in eyre for that turn of the Forests, Notts, York, Cumberland and Northumberland, and continued to act as Chief Justice of the Forest beyond Trent until his death. In Oct 1275, he was the chief assessor of the 15th in Cumberland and Lancaster, and was summoned 1277, 1282 and 1283 to the assembly at Shrewsbury.
Geoffrey de Neville married Margaret de Lungvillers, and died shortly before 16 Mar 1285. His widow, who was born at Farnley, Leeds, had writ for livery of Hornby Castle, 3 Apr 1285, she undertaking not to marry without license. She was summoned to perform military service in Gascony in person, 1294, and against the Scots, June 1300. Margaret died about Feb 1318/9.
~ Cokayne's Complete Peerage, 2nd Edition, (Neville), Vol. IX, pp. 487-488
Geoffrey married Margaret de Lungvilliers, daughter of Sir John Lungvilliers Knight and Elena 160.,141 (Margaret de Lungvilliers was born in Farnley, Yorkshire, England 141 and died about Feb 1318-1319 in Lancashire, England 141,734.)
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