John Neville, 3rd Baron Latimer
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John Neville, 3rd Baron Latimer (17 November 1493 – 2 March 1543) was an English peer. His third wife was
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, 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 (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 wa ...
, by Anne Stafford, daughter of Sir Humphrey Stafford (died 1486) of Grafton, Worcestershire, and Katherine Fray (12 May 1482), the daughter of Sir John Fray,
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, 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
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's French campaign, and was knighted after the capture of
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.. 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 () 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 Redistribution of Seats Act 1885 ...
(MP) for
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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
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in that year, and signed the letter petitioning
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to grant Henry VIII a divorce from
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. He had livery of his lands on 17 March 1531. He lived chiefly at Snape Castle,
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. In 1536, he was implicated in the
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, 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
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, by whom he had a son and a daughter:; . *
John Neville, 4th Baron Latimer John Neville, 4th Baron Latimer (c. 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 Baro ...
(1520-1577), married
Lucy Somerset Lady Lucy Neville, 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 Somerset, Countess of Worcester (d. 1565), Elizabeth Browne. Lucy ...
and had issue. Latimer was buried next to Snape Castle in St. Michael's Church, Wells, within Nevilles' Chapel. *Margaret Neville (1525Linda 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,
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(1512–1548), daughter of Sir Thomas Parr of Kendal, Westmorland, and widow of Sir Edward Borough (d. 1533), son of
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. She afterwards became the sixth wife of
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.


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References

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External links


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