Henry Neville, 5th Earl of Westmorland (1525–Aug 1563) was an English peer, member of the

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and

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Life

He was born in 1525, the eldest son 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 ...

and his wife, Katherine Stafford. Katherine's father was

Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham (3 February 1478 – 17 May 1521) was an English nobleman. He was the son of Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Katherine Woodville, Duchess of Buckingham, Katherine Woodville and nephew of E ...

; her mother was

Eleanor Percy, Duchess of Buckingham Eleanor Percy, Duchess of Buckingham ( – 13 February 1530), was the eldest daughter of Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland, by his wife, Lady Maud Herbert, daughter of William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke. Eleanor Percy married Edward ...

. Henry Neville was knighted in 1544 and inherited the

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from his father in 1550. He was made a member of the Privy Council around 1552 and ambassador to Scotland the same year. He became a Knight of the Garter and lord-lieutenant of Durham on 7 May 1552. Upon the death of

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, Neville supported

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and participated in her coronation ceremony,Stephen, Leslie. "Henry Neville, 5th Earl of Westmorland", ''Dictionary of National Biography'', Smith, Elder, & Company, 1894
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, swords representing spriritual and temporal justice. From January 1558 to December 1559 he was lieutenant-general of the north. His first wife was Anne Manners, daughter of

Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland, 12th Baron de Ros of Helmsley, Order of the Garter, KG (c. 1497{{snd20 September 1543), of Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire (adjacent to the small county of Rutland), was created Earl of Rutland by King Henry ...

. Their daughter Eleanor married William Pelham. Another daughter, Catherine, married as his second wife, Sir John Constable. A second portrait of Catherine by Robert Peake the Elder, dated 1590, resides at Burton Constable Hall. Lady Catherine Constable (d.1591), Daughter of Henry Nevil, Earl of Westmorland, Second Wife of Sir John Constable
/ref> His second wife was Jane, the daughter of Sir Roger Cholmeley; thirdly he married her sister Margaret, the widow of Sir Henry Gascoigne. Henry Neville died in August 1563 and was succeeded by his son by Anne Manners,

Charles Neville, 6th Earl of Westmorland Charles Neville, 6th Earl of Westmorland (18 August 154216 November 1601) was an English nobleman, politician and Roman Catholic rebel leader, who led the Rising of the North against Elizabeth I in 1569. After the failure of the Rising, he fled ...

References

1525 births 1563 deaths Knights of the Garter 16th-century English nobility

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