Noble family House of Neville Mother Joan Beaufort | Name Edward 3rd | |
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Father Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland Died October 18, 1476, Abergavenny, United Kingdom Spouse Katherine Howard (m. 1448), Elizabeth de Beauchamp, Baroness Bergavenny (m. 1436–1448) Children George Nevill, 4th Baron Bergavenny, Catherine Nevill, Margaret Nevill, Anne Nevill Parents Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland, Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland Siblings Cecily Neville, Duchess of York Similar People Ralph Neville - 1st Earl of W, Joan Beaufort - Countess, Cecily Neville - Duchess, John of Gaunt, Richard III of England | ||
Edward Nevill, de facto 3rd (de jure 1st) Baron Bergavenny (bef. 1414 – 18 October 1476) was an English peer.
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Family
He was the 7th son of Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, and Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland, daughter of John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford).
In 1436 he married Lady Elizabeth de Beauchamp (died 18 June 1448), daughter of Richard de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Worcester, and the former Lady Isabel le Despenser, who later succeeded as de jure 3rd Baroness Bergavenny. They had four children:
Shortly after his first wife's death, in the summer or fall of 1448, he married Katherine Howard, daughter of Robert Howard and sister of John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk. His second wife bore him three additional daughters:
Career
Neville was knighted sometime after 1426.
In 1438, Bergavenny, as he was now styled, was a justice of the peace for Durham.
He was a captain in the embattled Duchy of Normandy in 1449. His eldest son Richard was one of the hostages given to the French when the English surrendered the city of Rouen in that year.
After the death of his first wife, he was summoned to Parliament in 1450 as "Edwardo Nevyll de Bergavenny", by which he is held to have become Baron Bergavenny. At the time, however, this was considered to be a summons by right of his wife, and so he was considered the 3rd, rather than the 1st, Baron.
In 1454, he was appointed to the Privy Council assembled by the Duke of York as Lord Protector, along with his more prominent Neville kinsmen. He was a commissioner of array in Kent in 1461, and was a captain in Edward IV's army in the North the following year. He was again a commissioner of array in 1470, remaining loyal to Edward IV, unlike his nephew, the Earl of Warwick