As a consequence of the French army's defeat at the Battle of Crécy, during the Hundred Years War, King Philip VI of France appealed to his friend and ally King David II of Scotland to come to his aid by launching an attack on Northern England. In response King David personally led a Scots army of over 12,000 men southwards with intention of capturing Durham. In reply, a English army, of 5,000 men, moved northwards from Yorkshire to confront the Scots.
On the morning of 17 October1346, the Scots army was decisively defeated, and David was captured.
King David was brought to England and imprisoned in the Tower of London for eleven years, finally being released for a ransom of 100,000 marks.
Their son, Geoffrey Nevill, taking his mother's name, was the first Nevill owner of Raby, and it continued in the possession of this family, at one time the most powerful in England, until 1569.
Ralph, 2nd Baron Nevill, was also captured by the Black Douglas in the same fray, but was ransomed and fought in further campaigns against the Scots, and was the victor of the Battle of Neville'sCross at which he took prisoner, David II, King of Scotland.
Richard de Nevill • Nevilles Genealogy • The Rising of the North • Battle of NevillesCross 1346 • Battle of NevillesCross 1346 • Mary Queen of Scots • Rebellion in the North • Ralph Neville
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