George Neville, 1st Baron Latimer

George Neville, 1st Baron Latimer or (Latymer) (died 30 December 1469) was an English nobleman.

George Neville, 1st Baron Latimer
Died	30 December 1469
Noble family	Neville
Spouse(s)	Elizabeth Beauchamp
Issue Sir Henry Neville Thomas Neville Jane Neville Katherine Neville
Father	Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland
Mother	Joan Beaufort

George Neville was the fifth son of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, by his second wife Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt. He succeeded to the Latymer estates on the death of his half-uncle John Neville, 6th Baron Latimer, in 1430 (see Baron Latimer), and on 25 February 1432 he was summoned to Parliament as Baron Latimer.[1]

Lord Latimer later fought in Scotland in 1436,[1] was a Justice of the Peace for Cumberland in 1437 and admitted to the Privy Council in 1439.

In 1437, Lord Latimer married Lady Elizabeth (1417–1480), daughter of Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, by his first wife, Elizabeth Berkeley.[1] They had four children:

• Katherine Neville, who died childless.
• Sir Henry Neville (d. 26 July 1469), who married Joan Bourchier, daughter of John Bourchier, 1st Baron Berners, and Marjorie Berners, and had:
  • Joan Neville, born ca 1464, Latimer, Buckinghamshire, England; she married Sir James Ratclyffe.[2]
  • Richard Neville, 2nd Baron Latimer (Latimer, Buckinghamshire / Sinnington, North Riding of Yorkshire, ca. 1468 – Snape, North Yorkshire, December 1530, bur. Well, North Yorkshire), married in Grafton, Worcestershire, in 1490 to Anne Stafford (Grafton, Worcestershire, ca. 1471 – aft. 1513, bur. Well, North Yorkshire), daughter of Sir Humphrey Stafford of Grafton (Grafton, Worcestershire, ca. 1427 – executed by order of King Henry VII for siding with Richard III, Tyburn, 8 July 1486) and Catherine Fray (1437–1482), and had issue which included John Neville, 3rd Baron Latimer.[3]
  • Thomas Neville (1468–1546) (Esq.), born in Shenstone, Staffordshire, England. He was Lord of Mathom; married Letitia Harcourt (1494–1520), daughter of Sir Robert Harcourt of Stanton Harcourt and Agnes Lymbrake and had issue.[4]
• Thomas Neville, of Shenstone, Staffordshire.[1]
• Jane Neville, who married Oliver Dudley.

George Neville appears to have suffered from some form of dementia in his later years, as he was described as an "idiot," and the guardianship of his lands was given to his nephew, Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, the Kingmaker.[1] George Neville, Lord Latimer, died on 30 December 1469 and was succeeded in the barony by his grandson Richard, his eldest son Sir Henry Neville having predeceased him by several months, dying at the Battle of Edgecote Moor, 26 July 1469.[1]

Ancestry

Ancestors of George Neville, 1st Baron Latimer

16. Ralph Neville, 1st Baron Neville 8. Ralph Neville, 2nd Baron Neville 17. Euphemia de Clavering 4. John Neville, 3rd Baron Neville 18. Hugh de Audley 9. Alice Audley 19. Iseude Mortimer 2. Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland 20. Henry de Percy, 1st Baron Percy 10. Henry de Percy, 2nd Baron Percy 21. Eleanor Fitzalan 5. Maud Percy 22. Robert de Clifford 11. Idoine de Clifford 23. Margaret de Clare 1. George Neville, 1st Baron Latimer 24. Edward II of England 12. Edward III of England 25. Isabella of France 6. John of Gaunt 26. William I, Count of Hainault 13. Philippa of Hainault 27. Joan of Valois 3. Joan Beaufort 14. Sir Payne de Roet 7. Katherine Swynford

Peerage of England
Preceded by New Creation	Baron Latimer 1432–1469	Succeeded by Richard Nevill

References

1. Burke, John (1831). A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland, Extinct, Dormant, and in Abeyance. London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. p. 392. Retrieved 2009-07-17.
2. Joan NEVILLE Born: ABT 1464 www.tudorplace.com.ar
3. G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910–1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume XII/2, page 560.
4. Thomas NEVILLE (Esq.) www.tudorplace.com.ar

Further reading

• Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990.
• Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages
• Lundy, Darryl. "FAQ". The Peerage.