Alan de Neville (landholder)

Alan de Neville held lands around 1168 at Ashby, Lincolnshire, and should not be confused with another Alan de Neville who held the office of chief forester under King Henry II of England. The exact family relationships of the various Neville family members in the 12th and early 13th centuries are difficult to understand and distinguish. The landholder at Ashby is frequently known as "Alan Junior" in contemporary records to distinguish him from the forester. The landholder at Ashby was perhaps the brother of Gilbert de Neville, as Alan along with Gilbert co-founded Tupholme Abbey at Tupholme in Lincolnshire. Charles R. Young argues that the younger Alan is the son of the Chief Forester, based on the fact that in the 12th century the use of "Junior" meant that the person named that was either a son or a nephew of the person with the same name. The Complete Peerage entry for the Neville family of Essex gives the landholder at Ashby as the son of the Chief Forester also, as do the historians H. G. Richardson and G. O. Sayles. ==Legacy==

According to Katharine Keats-Rohan, Neville had four sons – Alan, Geoffrey, Thomas, and Ivo. It is also likely that Neville held lands in Amesbury in Wiltshire, as a widow of an Alan de Neville was given the lands of her husband, who died before Michaelmas in 1190. Young argues that the justice in charge of forest pleas in 1169 and 1170 and the man who died in 1190 were the same as the co-founder of Tupholme. ==Notes==