George Neville, or Nevill, 4th and ''de jure'' 2nd Baron Bergavenny ( 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 England, English nobleman.
Family
He was the 7th son7th son as implied by the Difference (heraldry), difference of a rose imposed upon his pater ...
and
Elizabeth Beauchamp. He was knighted by
Edward IV
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on 9 May 1471,
after fighting for the king, who was his cousin, at the
Battle of Tewkesbury
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King Edward IV and his forces loyal to the House of York completely defeated those of the rival Hou ...
. 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 (c. 1469 – c. 1535)
*John Neville
[.]
*William Neville
*
Sir Edward Neville (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
Andrew Windsor, 1st Baron Windsor (Wyndsore, Wyndesor) KB (1467–1543), was a Member of Parliament, English peer, and Keeper of the Wardrobe, knight banneret and military commander.
Name
In manuscript and printed sources dated before 1650 h ...
*
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
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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:
Names
* George (given name)
* George (surname)
People
* George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George
* George Papagheorghe, also known as Jorge / GEØRGE
* George, stage name of Gior ...
Barons Bergavenny (Peerage of England)
Medieval English knights
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People of the Wars of the Roses