John Neville, 3rd Baron Neville, (c.1337 – 17 October 1388) was an English peer, naval commander, and soldier.
His second wife was Elizabeth Latimer (later Elizabeth Willoughby) who was the
5th Baroness Latimer in her own right.
Origins
He was born between 1337 and 1340 at
Raby Castle
Raby Castle () is a medieval castle located near Staindrop in County Durham, England, among of deer park. It was built by John Neville, 3rd Baron Neville de Raby, between approximately 1367 and 1390. Cecily Neville, the mother of the Kings Ed ...
,
County Durham
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, the eldest son of
Ralph Neville, 2nd Baron Neville de Raby
Ralph Neville, 2nd Baron Neville of Raby ( – 5 August 1367) was an English aristocrat, the son of Ralph Neville, 1st Baron Neville de Raby by Eupheme de Clavering.
Neville led the English forces to victory against King David II of Scotla ...
by his wife Alice Audley, a daughter of
Hugh de Audley of
Stratton Audley in Oxfordshire and sister of
Hugh de Audley, 1st Earl of Gloucester, 1st Baron Audley (c.1291-1347) of
Stratton Audley. He had five brothers, including
Alexander Neville,
Archbishop of York
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, and four sisters.
Career
Cokayne notes that Neville's public career was as active as his father's had been. He fought against the Scots at the
Battle of Neville's Cross on 17 October 1346 as a captain under his father, was knighted about 1360 after a skirmish near
Paris
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while serving under
Sir Walter Manny, and fought in
Aquitaine
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in 1366, and again in 1373–4.
At his father's death on 5 August 1367, he succeeded to the title, and had livery of his lands in England and Scotland in October of that year.
From 1367, on he had numerous commissions issued to him, and in 1368 served as joint ambassador to France. He was made a
Knight of the Garter
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in 1369. In July 1370, he was appointed
Admiral of the North, and in November of that year a joint commissioner to treat with
Genoa
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. He was Steward of the King's Household in 1372, and in July of that year was part of an expedition to
Brittany
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. For the next several years he served in Scotland and the
Scottish Marches
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. In 1378 he had licence to fortify
Raby Castle
Raby Castle () is a medieval castle located near Staindrop in County Durham, England, among of deer park. It was built by John Neville, 3rd Baron Neville de Raby, between approximately 1367 and 1390. Cecily Neville, the mother of the Kings Ed ...
, and in June of the same year was in
Gascony
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, where he was appointed Keeper of Fronsac Castle and
Lieutenant of Gascony. He spent several years in Gascony, and was among the forces which raised the siege of Mortaigne in 1381. On his return to England, he was again appointed
Warden of the Marches
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. In May 1383 and March 1387, he was a joint commissioner to treat of peace with Scotland, and
in July 1385 was to accompany the
King
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to Scotland.
Neville died at
Newcastle upon Tyne
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on 17 October 1388. In his will he requested burial in
Durham Cathedral
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by his first wife, Maud. He was succeeded by his eldest son,
Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland
Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland Earl Marshal (c. 136421 October 1425), was an English nobleman of the House of Neville.
Origins
Ralph Neville was born about 1364, the son of John Neville, 3rd Baron Neville by his wife Maud Percy ( ...
.
Marriages and issue
Neville married twice:

*Firstly, before 1362, to Maud Percy (d. before 18 February 1379), a daughter of
Henry de Percy, 2nd Baron Percy
Henry Percy, 9th Baron Percy of Topcliffe, 2nd Baron Percy of Alnwick (6 February 1301 – 26 February 1352) was the son of Henry de Percy, 1st Baron Percy of Alnwick, and Eleanor Fitzalan, daughter of Sir Richard FitzAlan, 8th Earl of Arundel, a ...
of
Alnwick
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The town is south of Berwick-upon-Tweed and the Scottish border, inland from the North Sea ...
,
Northumberland
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, by his wife Idoine de Clifford, a daughter of
Robert de Clifford, 1st Baron de Clifford
Robert de Clifford, 1st Baron de Clifford (1 April 1274 – 24 June 1314), of Appleby Castle, Westmorland, feudal baron of Appleby and feudal baron of Skipton in Yorkshire, was an English soldier who became 1st Lord Warden of the Marches, ...
. By Maud he had two sons and five daughters:
**
Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland
Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland Earl Marshal (c. 136421 October 1425), was an English nobleman of the House of Neville.
Origins
Ralph Neville was born about 1364, the son of John Neville, 3rd Baron Neville by his wife Maud Percy ( ...
(c.1364-1425), eldest son and heir.
** Thomas Neville, 5th
Baron Furnivall, who married Joan Furnival
** Alice Neville, who married William Deincourt, 3rd
Baron Deincourt.
** Maud Nevile.
** Idoine Neville.
** Eleanor Neville, who married
Ralph de Lumley, 1st Baron Lumley.
** Elizabeth Neville, a nun.

*Secondly, before 9 October 1381, he married Elizabeth Latimer (d. 5 November 1395), daughter and heiress of
William Latimer, 4th Baron Latimer, who survived him and became the
5th Baroness Latimer in her own right. She remarried (as his second wife) to Robert Willoughby, 4th
Baron Willoughby de Eresby (c.1348-50 – 9 August 1396), by whom she had a daughter, Margaret Willoughby. Neville had by Elizabeth Latimer a further son and a daughter:
**John Neville, 6th
Baron Latimer
The title Baron Latimer or Latymer has been created, by the definitions of modern peerage law, four times in the Peerage of England. Of these, one (of Snape) was restored from abeyance in 1913; one (of Braybrook) is forfeit; the other two (both ...
(c.1382 – 10 December 1430), who married firstly, Maud Clifford (c.26 August 1446), daughter of
Thomas de Clifford, 6th Baron de Clifford, whom he divorced before 1413/17, by whom he had no issue. She married secondly,
Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge
Richard of Conisbrough, 3rd Earl of Cambridge (20 July 1385 – 5 August 1415) was the second son of Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, and Isabella of Castile, Duchess of York. He was beheaded for his part in the Southampton Plot, a conspi ...
.
**Elizabeth Neville, who before 27 May 1396 married Sir Thomas Willoughby (died shortly before 20 August 1417) son of Robert Willoughby, 4th
Baron Willoughby de Eresby (c.1348-50 – 9 August 1396), by whom she had one child, Sir John Willoughby (c.1400 – 24 February 1437).
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See also
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Baron Percy
Notes
External links
Inquisition Post Mortem#725-750, dated 1388.
References
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