A genealogical and heraldic history of the commoners of Great Britain and Ireland enjoying territorial possessions or high official rank, but uninvested with heritable honours (1836)
NEVILE, OF THORNEY. 9 This is a branch of the once great andpowerful family of Nkvilk, Lords of Raby,who subsequently became Earls of West-morland,* and whose descent is deducablefrom our Saxon annals. Waltheof, Officiary Earl of Northum-berland, in the reign of King Edgar, A.D.969, had by his…
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