Henry Nevill, 6th and ''de jure'' 4th Baron Abergavenny
KB (between 1527 and 153510 February 1587) was an English
peer. He was the son of Sir
George Nevill, 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 B ...
, and Mary Stafford (daughter of
Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham
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). He succeeded to the
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upon the death of his father, George Nevill, 5th Baron Bergavenny.
Biography
Henry, sixth (sometimes fourth)
Lord Abergavenny
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, had summons to
parliament
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on 23 January 1552, to 15 October 1586. He was one of the peers that sat in judgment on
Mary, Queen of Scots
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, at
Fotheringay
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. He died at his seat called Comfort, near
Birling, Kent
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, on 10 February 1587.
He married first,
Frances
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, daughter of
Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland
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Ori ...
; he married secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of Stephen Darell, of Spelmonden,
Kent
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(she remarried to Sir William Sedley, of
Southfleet
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Southfle ...
, Kent, Knt. and
Bart.); by his first wife, he had an only daughter
Mary Neville who married Sir
Thomas Fane.
Wyatt's rebellion
During the
Wyatt's rebellion of January–February 1554 Henry and
Robert Southwell, the
High Sheriff of Kent
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married to Henry's niece Margaret, led the loyalist forces against the rebels. According to D. M. Loades, "Sir Robert Southwell and Lord Abergavenny were almost the only significant gentlemen in the country whose loyalty was never in doubt";
[Loades, p. 84.] "Southwell, Abergavenny and
Cheney were the most active royalist leaders."
[Loades, p. 78.]
Henry and Southwell began recruitment of loyalist forces on 24 January, one day before the outbreak of the rebellion, although at this stage they had little success.
[Loades, p. 78.] On 26 January Wyatt declared Henry and Southwell "traitors to God, the Crown and the Commonwealth" for "stirring up the Queen's most loyal subjects of the realm."
By 27 January, the loyalists's position improved, and their combined forces in Kent matched the numbers of Wyatt's force in
Rochester
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, at around two thousand men on each side.
[Loades, p. 58.] Henry and Southwell with six hundred men blocked the road from Tonbridge to Rochester to prevent consolidation of the rebels.
[ On 28 January Southwell defeated ]Henry Isley
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's company of rebels at Wrotham
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History
The name first occurs as ''U ...
, taking around sixty prisoners.[Loades, p. 59.] However, on the same day the army of Duke of Norfolk
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deserted to Wyatt;[Loades, p. 61.] Henry and Southwell fled to London. Wyatt marched to London himself with around three thousand men,[Zell, p. 220.] but lost the initiative; Southwell and Thomas Cheney
Sir Thomas Cheney (or Cheyne) KG (c. 1485 – 16 December 1558) of the Blackfriars, City of London and Shurland, Isle of Sheppey, Kent, was an English administrator and diplomat, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports in south-east England from 1 ...
managed to raise another loyalist company in his rear.[Froude, p. 119.][Loades, p. 63.] On 4 February Henry and Southwell marched to Greenwich
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. Wyatt was cut off from his base in Kent, and could not count on reinforcements while the loyalists' forces gained strength every day.[
By 7 February, Wyatt's army disintegrated. Amongst Wyatt's supporters who were later sentenced to death was Thomas Fane, later Henry Nevill's son-in-law. Fane was pardoned due to his youth and he became a loyal supporter of the crown, a member of parliament and a son-in-law to Neville.
]
Mary, Lady Fane
His daughter, Mary Neville, Baroness le Despencer
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, died 28 June 1626, aged 72, buried at Mereworth
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, Kent, having married at Birling, 12 December 1574, as the second wife, to Thomas Fane, of Badsell, Kent[Zell, p. 290.] Her son, Francis
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, was created Earl of Westmorland
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, knighted at Dover Castle
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, 26 August 1573, died 13 March 1589, will dated 12 March 1589, proved 10 February 1590.
Lady Fane claimed the barony of Abergavenny against Edward Nevill, the heir male upon whom the castle of Bergavenny was settled as aforesaid, and as a compromise, she was by letters patent, 25 May 1604, confirmed in the name, style, and dignity of Baroness le Despencer, to the heirs of her body, with the ancient seat, place, and precedence of her ancestors.
Ancestry
Notes
References
* Froude, J. A. (1889).
The Reign of Mary Tudor
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*Loades, D. M. (1965).
The Two Tudor Conspiracies
'. Cambridge University Press.
*Zell, Michael (2000).
Early modern Kent, 1540–1640
'. Boydell & Brewer. .
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