George Nevill, 4th Baron Bergavenny

English noble

George Neville
Baron Bergavenny
Bornc.1440
Died20 September 1492 (about 52)
Noble familyHouse of Neville
Spouse(s)Margaret Fenn
Elizabeth Brent
IssueGeorge Neville, 5th Baron Bergavenny
John Neville
William Neville
Sir Edward Neville
Sir Thomas Neville
Sir Richard Neville
Elizabeth Neville
FatherEdward Neville, 3rd Baron Bergavenny
MotherElizabeth Beauchamp

George Neville, or Nevill, 4th and de jure 2nd Baron Bergavenny (c.1440 – 20 September 1492) was an English nobleman.

Career

George Neville was the son of Edward Neville, 3rd Baron Bergavenny and Elizabeth Beauchamp. He was knighted by Edward IV on 9 May 1471,[1] after fighting for the King at the Battle of Tewkesbury. 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:[2][3]

  • George Neville, 5th Baron Bergavenny (c. 1469 – c. 1535).[3]
  • John Neville.[4]
  • William Neville.[4]
  • 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.[3]
  • Sir Thomas Neville (c. 1484–1542), Speaker of the House of Commons, who married firstly Katherine Dacre, and secondly Elizabeth Bryce.[5]
  • Sir Richard Neville[5] (bef. 1485 – c. 1515).
  • Elizabeth Neville, who married firstly Thomas Berkeley, esquire, of Avon, Hampshire, and secondly Richard Covert, esquire, of Slaugham, Sussex.[5]

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.[2][3]

Bergavenny was a captain in the English forces at Calais in 1490, and died in 1492.[1]

Ancestry

Ancestors of George Nevill, 4th Baron Bergavenny
16. Ralph Neville, 2nd Baron Neville de Raby
8. John Neville, 3rd Baron Neville de Raby
17. Alice Audley
4. Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland
18. Henry de Percy, 2nd Baron Percy
9. Maud Percy
19. Idoine de Clifford
2. Edward Nevill, 3rd Baron Bergavenny
20. Edward III of England
10. John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster
21. Philippa of Hainault
5. Lady Joan Beaufort
22. Payne de Roet
11. Katherine Swynford
1. George Nevill, 4th Baron Bergavenny
24. Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick
12. William de Beauchamp, 1st Baron Bergavenny
25. Katherine Mortimer
6. Richard de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Worcester
26. Richard Fitzalan, 11th Earl of Arundel
13. Lady Joan FitzAlan
27. Elizabeth de Bohun
3. Elizabeth de Beauchamp
28. Edward le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer
14. Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester
29. Elizabeth de Burghersh
7. Isabel le Despenser, Countess of Worcester and Warwick
30. Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York
15. Constance of York
31. Infanta Isabella of Castile

Notes

  1. ^ a b Doyle, James Edmund (1886). The Official Baronage of England. Vol. I. London: Longmans, Green & Co. p. 4.
  2. ^ a b Cokayne 1910, p. 31.
  3. ^ a b c d Richardson I 2011, pp. 168–70.
  4. ^ a b Richardson I 2011, p. 168.
  5. ^ a b c Richardson I 2011, p. 170.

References

  • Cokayne, G. E. (1910). Gibbs, Vicary (ed.). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct or dormant (Ab-Adam to Basing). Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). London: The St Catherine Press.
  • Davies, Catharine (2004). "Neville, Sir Thomas (b. in or before 1484, d. 1542)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/19964. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  • Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G. (ed.). Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. Vol. I (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City. ISBN 978-1449966379.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Peerage of England
Preceded by Baron Bergavenny
1476–1492 		Succeeded by


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