Alexander Neville

Alexander Neville
Ralph Neville, 2nd Baron Neville de Raby and Alice de Audley

Alexander Neville (c. 1340–1392) was a late medieval prelate who served as Archbishop of York from 1374 to 1388.

Life

Born in about 1340, Alexander Neville was a younger son of

Neville family, one of the most powerful families in the north of England.^[1]

Neville's first known ecclesiastical appointment was as a

consecrated to the episcopate at Westminster on 4 June 1374 and enthroned at York Minster on 18 December 1374.^[7]

On the Lords Appellant rising against King Richard II in 1386, however, Neville was accused of treason and it was determined to imprison him for life in Rochester Castle.^[1]

Neville fled, and

Avignon papacy with their own candidate, Walter Trail.^[8]

For the remainder of Neville's life he served as a parish priest in Leuven, where he died in May 1392 and was buried there in the Church of the Carmelites.^[7]^[9]

Citations

^ ^a ^b "Alexander Neville (c.1340–1392)". Biographies. Britannia. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 11 November 2010.
^ Jones 1963, Northern Province: Prebendaries of Bole, pp. 34–36.
^ Horn 1962, Exeter Diocese: Archdeacons of Cornwall, pp. 15–17.
^ Jones 1963, Northern Province: Archdeacons of Durham, pp. 111–113.
^ Fryde et al. 1986, Handbook of British Chronology, p. 282.
^ Jones 1963, Northern Province: Archbishops of York, pp. 3–5.
^ ^a ^b Fryde, et al. Handbook of British Chronology p. 282
^ Dowden 1912, The Bishops of Scotland, pp. 27–28 and 45.
^ Dowden 1912, The Bishops of Scotland, p. 45.

References

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Dowden, John (1912). Thomson, J. Maitland (ed.). The Bishops of Scotland. Glasgow: James Maclehose and Son.
Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd, reprinted 2003 ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
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Horn, J. M. (1962). Exeter Diocese. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300–1541. Vol. IX. British History Online.
Jones, B. (1963). Northern Province (York, Carlise and Durham). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300–1541. Vol. VI. British History Online.

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