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English Family Name

Neville

“Norman toponymic from Néville, taken into an English line by inheritance”
“Ne vile velis” · Wish nothing base
House colours from the family arms — this name has no clan tartan tradition
Historic titleEarl of Westmorland; Earl of Warwick; today Marquess of Abergavenny
HeartlandCounty Durham, Yorkshire & the north
RegionNorth East England

Kingmakers of the Wars of the Roses. Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, made and unmade kings until his death at Barnet in 1471; the northern line was attainted after the failed Rising of the North in 1569.

Ancestral seats

  • Raby Castle, County Durham
  • Middleham Castle, North Yorkshire
  • Eridge Park, East Sussex

Where to walk in their footsteps

Access, opening hours and admission change. We confirm every site before it goes into an itinerary.

Raby Castle, County Durham

Built by the Nevilles and open seasonally, though owned by the Vane family since 1626.

Middleham Castle, North Yorkshire

Warwick the Kingmaker's stronghold and Richard III's boyhood home, English Heritage.

Also recorded as

Nevillde NevilleFitzMaldred

Travelling to Neville country

Cashel Travel has arranged clan gatherings and heritage tours across Scotland and Ireland since the 1990s, including full gatherings for Clan Gordon, Hay, Keith, Lindsay, Hunter, Dunbar, Graham, Sutherland and MacLaren. We research the family history, build the itinerary around it, and arrange access to places that are not normally open to the public.

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