Ralph Neville, 3rd Earl of Westmorland
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Ralph Neville, 3rd Earl of Westmorland (c. 1456 – 6 February 1499) was an English peer. He was the grandfather of
Ralph Neville, 4th Earl of Westmorland Ralph Neville, 4th Earl of Westmorland KG (21 February 1498 – 24 April 1549), was an English peer and soldier. He was the grandson of Ralph Neville, 3rd Earl of Westmorland, and the father of Henry Neville, 5th Earl of Westmorland. Family ...
.


Origins

He was born in about 1456, the only child of
John Neville, Baron Neville John Neville, Baron Neville (c. 1410 – 29 March 1461) was an English nobleman who fought for the House of Lancaster during the Wars of the Roses. He belonged to a senior but impoverished branch of the Neville family of northern England, which ...
(younger brother of
Ralph Neville, 2nd Earl of Westmorland Ralph Neville, 2nd Earl of Westmorland ( 1406 – 3 November 1484) was an English nobleman in northern England. Origins Ralph Neville was born at Cockermouth Castle (which was temporarily in Neville family hands following a rebellion of the riv ...
) by his wife Anne Holland, daughter of
John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, 2nd Earl of Huntingdon, (29 March 1395 – 5 August 1447) was an English nobleman and military commander during the Hundred Years' War. His father, the 1st Duke of Exeter, was a maternal half-brother to Ri ...
(1395-1447).


Career

Neville's father was slain fighting for the Lancastrians at the
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on 29 March 1461, and attainted on 4 November of that year. On 6 October 1472 Ralph Neville obtained the reversal of his father's attainder and the restoration of the greater part of his estates, and thereby became Lord Neville (1459 creation). On 18 April 1475 Neville was created a
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together with the sons of King Edward IV. He was a
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in
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. For his 'good services against the rebels', on 23 March 1484 King Richard III granted Neville manors in
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and Berkshire and the reversion of lands which had formerly belonged to
Margaret, Countess of Richmond Lady Margaret Beaufort (usually pronounced: or ; 31 May 1441/43 – 29 June 1509) was a major figure in the Wars of the Roses of the late fifteenth century, and mother of King Henry VII of England, the first Tudor monarch. A descendant of ...
. In September 1484 he was a commissioner to keep the truce with Scotland. On 3 November 1484 his uncle,
Ralph Neville, 2nd Earl of Westmorland Ralph Neville, 2nd Earl of Westmorland ( 1406 – 3 November 1484) was an English nobleman in northern England. Origins Ralph Neville was born at Cockermouth Castle (which was temporarily in Neville family hands following a rebellion of the riv ...
, died, and Neville succeeded as 3rd Earl of Westmorland and Lord Neville (1295 creation). After the
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defeat at Bosworth, Westmorland entered into bonds to the new king, Henry VII, of £400 and 400 marks, and on 5 December 1485, he gave custody (and the approval of the marriage of his eldest son and heir), Ralph Neville (d.1498), to the King. Westmorland held a command in the army sent into Scotland in 1497 after
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supported the pretensions to the crown of Perkin Warbeck.


Death

Westmorland's eldest son died in 1498. Westmorland died at
Hornby Castle, Yorkshire Hornby Castle is a grade I listed fortified manor house on the edge of Wensleydale between Bedale and Leyburn, in the county of North Yorkshire, England. Originally 14th century, it has been remodelled in the 15th, 18th and 20th centuries. It ...
, the seat of his son-in-law, Sir William Conyers, on 6 February 1499, allegedly of grief for his son's death, and was buried in the parish church there. His grandson,
Ralph Neville Ralph Neville (or Ralf NevillClanchy ''From Memory to Written Record'' p. 90 or Ralph de Neville; died 1244) was a medieval clergyman and politician who served as Bishop of Chichester and Lord Chancellor of England. Neville first appears in t ...
, succeeded to the earldom as 4th Earl of Westmorland.


Marriage and issue

First Marriage Before 20 February 1473, Neville married Isabel Booth, the daughter of Sir Roger Booth, esquire (1396–1467) and Catherine Hatton, and the niece of Lawrence Booth, Archbishop of York, by whom he had a son and a daughter: *Ralph Neville, Lord Neville (d. 1498). As noted above, on 5 December 1485, his father had granted his custody (and the approval of the marriage of his eldest son) to the King. Accordingly, Lord Neville married firstly, in the presence of King Henry VII and his Queen,
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, Mary Paston (born 19 January 1470), the eldest daughter of Sir William Paston (b. 1436 – died before 7 September 1496) by Lady Anne Beaufort, daughter of
Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset, 4th Earl of Somerset, 1st Earl of Dorset, 1st Marquess of Dorset styled 1st Count of Mortain, KG (140622 May 1455), was an English nobleman and an important figure during the Hundred Years' War. His rival ...
. She died of measles at court, about Christmas 1489. There were no issue of the marriage. Second Marriage Lord Neville married secondly, again in the royal presence, Edith Sandys (d. 22 August 1529), sister of
William Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys William Sandys, 1st Baron Sandys (1470 – 4 December 1540), KG, of The Vyne in the parish of Sherborne St John, Hampshire, was an English diplomat and was a favourite of King Henry VIII, whom he served as Lord Chamberlain. In the 1520s he bui ...
, by whom he had four children: *
Ralph Neville, 4th Earl of Westmorland Ralph Neville, 4th Earl of Westmorland KG (21 February 1498 – 24 April 1549), was an English peer and soldier. He was the grandson of Ralph Neville, 3rd Earl of Westmorland, and the father of Henry Neville, 5th Earl of Westmorland. Family ...
* a son who died young * Cecilia Neville, who married John Weston, son of John Weston Jr. and Virginia Alice Edshaw, and was the mother of Dr Robert Weston, Lord Chancellor of Ireland *Lady Anne Neville, who married firstly,
William Conyers, 1st Baron Conyers William Conyers, 1st Baron Conyers (21 December 1468 – 14 April 1524), also known as William Conyers of Hornby, was an English baron and aristocrat. Personal life Conyers was the second, but only surviving son of Sir John Conyers, Jr. (d.146 ...
, and secondly, Anthony Saltmarsh (1473–1550) of
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, Lincolnshire. After Lord Neville's death in 1498, his widow Edith married Thomas Darcy, 1st Baron Darcy of Darcy, who was beheaded on
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on 30 June 1537.; .


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References

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