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Edward Neville, 3rd Baron Bergavenny

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Edward Neville
Baron Bergavenny
Died18 October 1476
Noble familyNeville
Spouse(s)Elizabeth de Beauchamp
Katherine Howard
IssueRichard Nevill
George Nevill, 4th Baron Bergavenny
Alice Nevill
Catherine Nevill
Margaret Nevill
Anne Nevill
FatherRalph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland
MotherJoan Beaufort
Arms of Edward Nevill, Baron Bergavenny:Gules, a saltire argent charged with a rose of the field (barbed and seeded proper).[1]These are his paternal arms ofNevilledifferencedby a rose, the symbol of a 7th son. These arms are borne today by his descendants the NevilleMarquesses of Abergavenny

Edward Neville,de facto3rd (de jure1st) Baron Bergavenny(died 18 October 1476) was anEnglishnobleman.[2]

Family

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He was the 7th son[3]ofRalph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland,andJoan Beaufort,daughter ofJohn of GauntandKatherine Swynford).

In 1436 he marriedElizabeth de Beauchamp(died 18 June 1448), daughter ofRichard de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Worcester,and the formerIsabel le Despenser,who later succeeded asde jure3rd Baroness Bergavenny. They had four children:

  • Richard Nevill (before 1439 – before 1476), eldest son andheir apparent,predeceased his father;
  • George Nevill, 4th Baron Bergavenny(c. 1440–1492), 2nd and eldest surviving son and heir;
  • Alice Nevill, who married Sir Thomas Grey;
  • Catherine Nevill (bornc. 1444), who married John Iwardby.

Shortly after his first wife's death, in the summer or autumn of 1448, he married Katherine Howard, a daughter of SirRobert Howardand sister ofJohn Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk.His second wife bore him three additional daughters:

Career

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Neville was knighted sometime after 1426.[4]

In 1438, Bergavenny, as he was now styled, was ajustice of the peaceforDurham.[4]

He was a captain in the embattledDuchy of Normandyin 1449.[4]His eldest son Richard was one of the hostages given to the French when the English surrendered the city ofRouenin that year.

After the death of his first wife, he wassummonedtoParliamentin 1450 as "Edwardo Nevyll de Bergavenny", by which he is held to have becomeBaron 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 thePrivy Councilassembled by theDuke of Yorkas Lord Protector, along with his more prominent Neville kinsmen. He was acommissioner of arrayinKentin 1461, and was a captain inEdward 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, theEarl of Warwick[4]

Ancestry

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References

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  1. ^Blazon per Debrett's Peerage, 1968, which gives no tinctures for rose, which are however given as stated in brackets for Neville Barons Braybrooke
  2. ^Pugh, T.B. (2004)."Neville, Edward, first Baron Bergavenny (d. 1476), nobleman".Oxford Dictionary of National Biography(online) (online ed.). Oxford University Press.doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/19929.(Subscription orUK public library membershiprequired.)
  3. ^7th son as implied by thedifferenceof a rose imposed upon his paternal arms of Nevill. However Debrett's Peerage, 1968, p.39 (re Marquess of Abergavenny) gives him as 6th son (and erroneously names him as Ralph)
  4. ^abcdDoyle, James Edmund(1886).The Official Baronage of England.Vol. I. London: Longmans, Green & Co. p. 3.
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Peerage of England
New creation Baron Bergavenny
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