John Neville, 3rd Baron Latimer (17 November 1493 – 2 March 1543) was an English peer. His third wife was
Catherine Parr
Catherine Parr (sometimes alternatively spelled Katherine, Katheryn, Kateryn, or Katharine; 1512 – 5 September 1548) was Queen of England and Ireland as the last of the six wives of King Henry VIII from their marriage on 12 July 1543 until ...
, later queen of England.
Family
John Neville, born 17 November 1493, was the eldest son of
Richard Neville, 2nd Baron Latimer
Richard Neville, 2nd Baron Latimer KB (c.1468 – c. 28 December 1530) of Snape, North Yorkshire, was an English soldier and peer. He fought at the battles of Stoke and Flodden.
Richard Neville was the eldest son of Sir Henry Neville, who ...
, by Anne Stafford, daughter of Sir Humphrey Stafford of
Grafton, Worcestershire, and Katherine Fray (12 May 1482), the daughter of
Sir John Fray,
Chief Baron of the Exchequer
The Chief Baron of the Exchequer was the first "baron" (meaning judge) of the English Exchequer of Pleas. "In the absence of both the Treasurer of the Exchequer or First Lord of the Treasury, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, it was he who pre ...
, by Agnes Danvers (d. June 1478), the daughter of Sir John Danvers (died c. 1448). He had five brothers and six sisters.
Career
The Neville family was one of the oldest and most powerful in the North, with a long-standing tradition of military service and a reputation for seeking power at the cost of the loyalty to the crown.
[Linda Porter. ''Katherine, the Queen''. Macmillan, 2010.]
Neville came to court as one of the King's gentlemen-pensioners.
[.] In 1513 he served in King
Henry VIII
Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547. Henry is best known for his six marriages, and for his efforts to have his first marriage (to Catherine of Aragon) annulled. His disa ...
's French campaign, and was knighted after the capture of
Tournai
Tournai or Tournay ( ; ; nl, Doornik ; pcd, Tornai; wa, Tornè ; la, Tornacum) is a city and municipality of Wallonia located in the province of Hainaut, Belgium. It lies southwest of Brussels on the river Scheldt. Tournai is part of Euromet ...
.
[.] He took part about 1517 in the investigation of the case of the
Holy Maid of Leominster.
He was
knight of the shire
Knight of the shire ( la, milites comitatus) was the formal title for a member of parliament (MP) representing a county constituency in the British House of Commons, from its origins in the medieval Parliament of England until the Redistributio ...
(MP) for
Yorkshire
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in 1529, his fellow knight of the shire being his cousin,
Sir Marmaduke Constable, the son of his mother's sister, Joyce Stafford, and
Sir Marmaduke Constable.
Neville's father died before the end of 1530. Neville was appointed to the
Council of the North
The Council of the North was an administrative body first set up in 1484 by King Richard III of England, to improve access to conciliar justice in Northern England. This built upon steps by King Edward IV of England in delegating authority in the ...
in that year, and signed the letter petitioning
Pope Clement VII
Pope Clement VII ( la, Clemens VII; it, Clemente VII; born Giulio de' Medici; 26 May 1478 – 25 September 1534) was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 19 November 1523 to his death on 25 September 1534. Deemed "the ...
to grant Henry VIII a divorce from
Catherine of Aragon
Catherine of Aragon (also spelt as Katherine, ; 16 December 1485 – 7 January 1536) was Queen of England as the first wife of King Henry VIII from their marriage on 11 June 1509 until their annulment on 23 May 1533. She was previously ...
.
He had livery of his lands on 17 March 1531. He lived chiefly at
Snape Castle
Snape Castle is a semi-fortified manor house in the village of Snape, North Yorkshire, England. The castle is south of Bedale and north of Ripon. At the time of Henry VIII, John Leland described it as "...a goodly castel in a valley eonging ...
,
Yorkshire
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.
In 1536, he was implicated in the
Pilgrimage of Grace
The Pilgrimage of Grace was a popular revolt beginning in Yorkshire in October 1536, before spreading to other parts of Northern England including Cumberland, Northumberland, and north Lancashire, under the leadership of Robert Aske. The "most ...
, in an ambivalent role. It was rumoured that he was captured by the rebels, and he afterwards said of the part he had played: "My being among them was a very painful and dangerous time to me". He represented the insurgents, however, in November 1536 at the conferences with the royal leaders, and helped to secure the amnesty. He then returned home and took no part in
Bigod's Rebellion of the following year. He did have to give up his town house in the churchyard of the Charterhouse to a friend of Lord Russell.
Death
He died 2 March 1543 in London, and was buried in St. Paul's Cathedral.
Marriages and issue
Neville married firstly, by 1520, Dorothy (d. 7 February 1527), daughter of Sir George de Vere by Margaret Stafford, and sister of
John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford
John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford (14 August 1499 – 14 July 1526) was an English peer and landowner.
By inheritance, he was Lord Great Chamberlain of England, and in June 1520, at the age of twenty, he attended King Henry VIII at the Field of t ...
, by whom he had a son and a daughter:
[; .]
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John Neville, 4th Baron Latimer
John Neville, 4th Baron Latimer (1520 – 22 April 1577) was an English peer, and the stepson of Catherine Parr, later the sixth wife of King Henry VIII.
Early life
John Neville, born about 1520, was the only son of John Neville, 3rd Baron Lati ...
(1520-1577), married
Lucy Somerset
Lady Lucy Somerset, Baroness Latimer (c. 1524 – 23 February 1583) was an English noblewoman and the daughter of Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester and his second wife, Elizabeth Browne. Lucy served as a Maid of Honour to Queen consort Cather ...
and had issue. Latimer was buried next to
Snape Castle
Snape Castle is a semi-fortified manor house in the village of Snape, North Yorkshire, England. The castle is south of Bedale and north of Ripon. At the time of Henry VIII, John Leland described it as "...a goodly castel in a valley eonging ...
in
St. Michael's Church, Wells, within Nevilles' Chapel.
*Margaret Neville (1525
[Linda Porter. ''Katherine, the Queen'', MacMillan, 2010. pg 66. *At the time of her father's marriage to Catherine Parr in 1534, Margaret was aged 9.]-1546), was betrothed to Ralph Bigod. She died childless.
Neville married secondly, by licence dated 20 June 1528 Elizabeth (d. before 1533), daughter of Sir Edward Musgrave of Hartley, Westmorland, and Edenhall, Cumberland, by whom he had no issue.
Neville married thirdly, in 1534,
Catherine
Katherine, also spelled Catherine, and other variations are feminine names. They are popular in Christian countries because of their derivation from the name of one of the first Christian saints, Catherine of Alexandria.
In the early Christ ...
(1512–1548), daughter of Sir Thomas Parr of Kendal, Westmorland, and widow of
Sir Edward Borough
Sir Edward Burgh (pronounced "Borough"; died before April 1533)Linda Porter. Katherine, the Queen. Macmillan. 2010.James, Susan E. ''Catherine Parr: Henry VIII's Last Love'' Gloucestershire, England: The History Press 2009. pg. 60–63.David Sta ...
(d. 1533), son of
Thomas Burgh, 1st Baron Burgh
Thomas Burgh, 1st Baron Burgh also spelt ''Borough'', KG (; ; pronounced: ''Borough''; c. 1488 – 28 February 1550), 1st Baron Borough of Gainsborough, also ''de jure'' 5th Baron Strabolgi and 7th Baron Cobham of Sterborough, was an English ...
. She afterwards became the sixth wife of
King Henry VIII
Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547. Henry is best known for his six marriages, and for his efforts to have his first marriage (to Catherine of Aragon) annulled. His disag ...
.
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External links
History of Parliament- NEVILLE, Sir John I (1493-1543) of Snape, Yorks Accessed 9 December 2022.
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1493 births
1543 deaths
John
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Barons Latimer
15th-century English people
Burials at St Paul's Cathedral
English MPs 1529–1536
16th-century English soldiers
16th-century English nobility
Husbands of Catherine Parr
Knights Bachelor