George Nevill, 4th Baron Bergavenny
| George Neville | |
|---|---|
| Baron Bergavenny | |
| Spouse(s) |
Margaret Fenne Elizabeth (surname unknown) |
|
Issue
George Neville, 5th Baron Bergavenny John Neville William Neville Sir Edward Neville Sir Thomas Neville Sir Richard Neville Elizabeth Neville | |
| Noble family | House of Neville |
| Father | Edward Neville, 3rd Baron Bergavenny |
| Mother | Elizabeth Beauchamp |
| Born | c.1440 |
| Died | 20 September 1492 |
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 Fenne (d. 28 September 1485), the daughter and heiress of Hugh Fenne, Treasurer of the Household to King Henry VI, Escheator of Norfolk & Suffolk and Eleanor Fiennes, 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] He was the ancestor of George Washington through his granddaughter Catherine.[5]
- Sir Thomas Neville (c.1484–1542), Speaker of the House of Commons, who married firstly Katherine Dacre, and secondly Elizabeth Bryce.[6]
- Sir Richard Neville[6] (bef. 1485 – c.1515).
- Elizabeth Neville, who married firstly Thomas Berkeley, esquire, of Avon, Hampshire, and secondly Richard Covert, esquire, of Slaugham, Sussex.[6]
He married secondly a wife named Elizabeth whose surname is unknown. She was the widow successively of Richard Naylor, Sir Robert Bassett, and John Stokker. There were no issue of his second marriage.[2][3]
Bergavenny was a captain in the English forces at Calais in 1490, and died in 1492.[1]
Notes
- 1 2 Doyle, James Edmund (1886). The Official Baronage of England. vol. I. London: Longmans, Green & Co. p. 4.
- 1 2 Cokanye 1910, p. 31.
- 1 2 3 4 Richardson I 2011, pp. 168–70.
- 1 2 Richardson I 2011, p. 168.
- ↑ http://www.geni.com/path/George+Washington+1st+President+of+the+USA+is+related+to+John+Tyler+10th+President+of+the+USA?from=6000000008211776777&to=6000000000426801888
- 1 2 3 Richardson I 2011, p. 170.
References
- Cokayne, George Edward (1910). The Complete Peerage, edited by Vicary Gibbs I. London: St. Catherine Press. pp. 30–1.
- 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 I (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City. ISBN 1449966373.
External links
Ancestry
| Peerage of England | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Edward Nevill |
Baron Bergavenny 1476–1492 |
Succeeded by George Nevill |