George Nevill, 4th Baron Bergavenny

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

George Neville
Baron Bergavenny
Bornc.1440
Died20 September 1492 (about 52)
Noble familyHouse of Neville
Spouse(s)Margaret Fenn
Elizabeth Brent
Issue
George 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

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]

He married secondly Elizabeth Brent. She was the widow successively of Richard Naylor, Sir Robert Basett, 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]

Ancestry

Notes

  1. Doyle, James Edmund (1886). The Official Baronage of England. vol. I. London: Longmans, Green & Co. p. 4.
  2. Cokanye 1910, p. 31.
  3. Richardson I 2011, pp. 168–70.
  4. Richardson I 2011, p. 168.
  5. Richardson I 2011, p. 170.
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References

  • Cokayne, George Edward (1910). The Complete Peerage, edited by Vicary Gibbs. I. London: St. Catherine Press. pp. 30–1.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  • 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.
Peerage of England
Preceded by
Edward Nevill
Baron Bergavenny
1476–1492
Succeeded by
George Nevill



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