England; Yorkshire, County Durham and the English heraldic jurisdiction
Neville of Thornton Bridge and Cundall — molet-differenced cadet branch
- Family / house
- Neville of Thornton Bridge; Neville of Cundall; Neville of Raby; Audley; Leeds; Darell; Eure; Warde
- Family / cadet branch
- Thornton Bridge, Thornton-on-Swale, Cundall and Kirkby-on-the-Moor
- Armiger / bearer
- The Neville family of Thornton Bridge, founded by Ralph Neville and ending in the male line with Ralph Neville in 1522
- Entity type
- cadet_branch
- Social rank / class
- landed_gentry
- Heraldic authority
- Yorkshire and Durham medieval records; Powell Armorial; local genealogical reconstruction
- Record basis
- ancient_usage
- Issued / first recorded
- c.1345
- Until / superseded
- 24 July 1522
- Historical period
- Late medieval and early Tudor England
- Blazon
- Gules, a saltire Argent, charged with a pierced molet Sable.
- Plain-English description
- The senior Neville red shield and silver saltire, with a black pierced mullet placed on the saltire as a cadency mark.
- Tinctures
- Gules; Argent; Sable
- Charges / ordinaries
- Saltire; Pierced molet
- Difference / variant
- The molet or mullet is the characteristic difference associated with the Thornton Bridge/Cundall branch. Armorial sources vary between ‘mullet’ and ‘pierced molet’; the latter is preserved here because it is explicitly stated in the branch tradition.
- Source reference
- Powell Armorial, Neville entries
- Source
- Open source
Genealogical context
- Father
- Ralph Neville, 2nd Baron Neville of Raby
- Mother
- Alice Audley
- Spouse(s)
- Elizabeth de Leeds
- Children / next generation
- Alexander Neville of Thornton Bridge
Documented depiction
Notes / sources
The branch is distinct from Neville of Kent/Fauconberg, whose difference is a plain black mullet without the specifically documented Thornton Bridge pedigree and estate context.