George Neville, or Nevill, 4th and ''de jure'' 2nd Baron Bergavenny (c.1440 – 20 September 1492) was an English nobleman.
Career
George Neville was the son of
Edward Neville, 3rd Baron Bergavenny
Edward Neville, ''de facto'' 3rd (''de jure'' 1st) Baron Bergavenny (died 18 October 1476) was an English nobleman.
Family
He was the 7th son7th son as implied by the difference of a rose imposed upon his paternal arms of Nevill. However Debr ...
and
Elizabeth Beauchamp. He was knighted by
Edward IV
Edward IV (28 April 1442 – 9 April 1483) was King of England from 4 March 1461 to 3 October 1470, then again from 11 April 1471 until his death in 1483. He was a central figure in the Wars of the Roses, a series of civil wars in England ...
on 9 May 1471,
after fighting for the King at the
Battle of Tewkesbury. He succeeded his father in 1476.
Marriages and issue
Neville married firstly, before 1 May 1471, Margaret Fenn (d. 28 September 1485), the daughter and heiress of
Hugh Fenn, by whom he had six sons and a daughter:
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George Neville, 5th Baron Bergavenny
George Nevill, 5th Baron Bergavenny KG, PC (c.1469 – 1535), the family name often written Neville, was an English nobleman and courtier who held the office of Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports.
Origins
He was the son of George Nevill, 4th Bar ...
(c. 1469 – c. 1535).
*John Neville.
[.]
*William Neville.
*
Sir Edward Neville
Sir Edward Neville (died 8 December 1538) was an English courtier. He was born at Abergavenny, Monmouthshire. He was the son of George Neville, 4th Baron Bergavenny and his wife Margaret, daughter of Hugh Fenn. He married Eleanor Windsor, dau ...
(1471–1538), who married, before 6 April 1529, Eleanor (née Windsor), widow of
Ralph Scrope, 9th Baron Scrope (d. 17 September 1515), and daughter of
Andrew Windsor, 1st Baron Windsor.
*
Sir Thomas Neville (c. 1484–1542), Speaker of the House of Commons, who married firstly Katherine Dacre, and secondly Elizabeth Bryce.
[.]
*Sir Richard Neville
(bef. 1485 – c. 1515).
*Elizabeth Neville, who married firstly Thomas Berkeley, esquire, of Avon, Hampshire, and secondly Richard Covert, esquire, of Slaugham, Sussex.
He married secondly Elizabeth Brent. She was the widow successively of Richard Naylor, Sir Robert Basett, and John Stokker. There were no issue with his second marriage.
Bergavenny was a captain in the English forces at
Calais
Calais ( , , traditionally , ) is a port city in the Pas-de-Calais department, of which it is a subprefecture. Although Calais is by far the largest city in Pas-de-Calais, the department's prefecture is its third-largest city of Arras. Th ...
in 1490, and died in 1492.
Ancestry
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1440s births
1492 deaths
15th-century Welsh people
People of the Tudor period
George
George may refer to:
People
* George (given name)
* George (surname)
* George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George
* George Washington, First President of the United States
* George W. Bush, 43rd Presiden ...
Barons Bergavenny (Peerage of England)
English knights
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