Edward Neville, ''de facto'' 3rd (''de jure'' 1st) Baron Bergavenny (died 18 October 1476) was an
English nobleman.
Family
He was the 7th son
[7th son as implied by the difference of a rose imposed upon his paternal arms of Nevill. However Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p.39 (re Marquess of Abergavenny) gives him as 6th son (and erroneously names him as Ralph)] of
Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, and
Joan Beaufort, daughter of
John of Gaunt
John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (6 March 1340 – 3 February 1399), was an English royal prince, military leader and statesman. He was the fourth son (third surviving) of King Edward III of England, and the father of King Henry IV. Because ...
and
Katherine Swynford
Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster (born Katherine de Roet, – 10 May 1403) was the third wife of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, the fourth (but third surviving) son of King Edward III.
Daughter of a knight from County of Hainaut, Ha ...
).
In 1436 he married
Elizabeth de Beauchamp (died 18 June 1448), daughter of
Richard de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Worcester, and the former
Isabel le Despenser, who later succeeded as ''de jure'' 3rd Baroness Bergavenny. They had four children:
* Richard Nevill (before 1439 – before 1476), eldest son and
heir apparent
An heir apparent is a person who is first in the order of succession and cannot be displaced from inheriting by the birth of another person. A person who is first in the current order of succession but could be displaced by the birth of a more e ...
, predeceased his father;
*
George Nevill, 4th Baron Bergavenny (–1492), 2nd and eldest surviving son and heir;
* Alice Nevill, who married Sir Thomas Grey;
* Catherine Nevill (born ), who married John Iwardby.
Shortly after his first wife's death, in the summer or autumn of 1448, he married Katherine Howard, a daughter of Sir
Robert Howard and sister of
John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk
John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk , also known as Jack of Norfolk, (22 August 1485), was an English nobleman, soldier, politician, and the first Howard Duke of Norfolk. He was a close friend and loyal supporter of King Richard III, with whom h ...
. His second wife bore him three additional daughters:
* Catherine Nevill (b. c. 1452/bef. 1473) married Robert Tanfield (b. 1461), son of Robert Tanfield and Elizabeth Brooke, daughter of
Edward Brooke, 6th Baron Cobham, and Elizabeth Touchet, born c. 1433, and had children.
* Margaret Nevill (b.bef. 1476–1506), who married
John Brooke, 7th Baron Cobham; John and Margaret are the grandparents of
Elizabeth Brooke, Lady Wyatt;
* Anne Nevill (b.bef 1476-1480/81) did not long survive her father.
Career
Neville was knighted sometime after 1426.
In 1438, Bergavenny, as he was now styled, was a
justice of the peace for
Durham.
He was a captain in the embattled
Duchy of Normandy
The Duchy of Normandy grew out of the 911 Treaty of Saint-Clair-sur-Epte between Charles the Simple, King Charles III of West Francia and the Viking leader Rollo. The duchy was named for its inhabitants, the Normans.
From 1066 until 1204, as a r ...
in 1449.
His eldest son Richard was one of the hostages given to the French when the English surrendered the city of
Rouen
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in that year.
After the death of his first wife, he was
summoned to
Parliament
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in 1450 as "Edwardo Nevyll de Bergavenny", by which he is held to have become Baron Bergavenny. At the time, however, this was considered to be a summons by right of his wife, and so he was considered the 3rd, rather than the 1st, Baron.
In 1454, he was appointed to the
Privy Council assembled by the
Duke of York
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as Lord Protector, along with his more prominent Neville kinsmen. He was a
commissioner of array in
Kent
Kent is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Essex across the Thames Estuary to the north, the Strait of Dover to the south-east, East Sussex to the south-west, Surrey to the west, and Gr ...
in 1461, and was a captain in
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 ...
's army in the North the following year. He was again a commissioner of array in 1470, remaining loyal to Edward IV, unlike his nephew, the
Earl of Warwick.
Ancestry
References
External links
thepeerage.com page
{{DEFAULTSORT:Bergavenny, Edward Nevill, 3rd Baron
15th-century births
1476 deaths
Peers jure uxoris
Nevill, Edward
Edward
Edward is an English male name. It is derived from the Anglo-Saxon name ''Ēadweard'', composed of the elements '' ēad'' "wealth, fortunate; prosperous" and '' weard'' "guardian, protector”.
History
The name Edward was very popular in Anglo-S ...
Barons Bergavenny (Peerage of England)