John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu
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John Neville | |
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Marquess of Montague | |
Born | c. 1431 |
Died | 14 April 1471 (aged c. 40) Barnet, Hertfordshire, England |
Buried | Bisham Abbey, Berkshire |
Noble family | Neville |
Spouse(s) |
Isabel Ingoldesthorpe
(m. 1457) |
Issue |
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John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu
From an early age, he was involved in fighting for
Following a few years of uneasy peace, the Yorkists' rebellion erupted once again, and John Neville fought alongside his father and elder brother
John Neville soon emerged, with Warwick, as representatives of the king's power in the north, which was still politically turbulent, as there were still a large number of Lancastrians on the loose attempting to raise a rebellion against the new regime. As his brother Warwick became more involved in national politics and central government, it devolved to John to finally defeat the last remnants of Lancastrians in 1464. Following these victories, Montagu, in what has been described as a high point for his House, was created
During Warwick's exile, King Edward stripped Montagu of the Earldom of Northumberland, making him Marquis of Montagu instead. John Neville appears to have seen this as a reduction in rank, and accepted it with poor grace. He seems particularly to have complained about the lack of landed estate that his new marquisate brought with it, calling it a "pie's nest". When the Earl of Warwick and Clarence returned, they distracted Edward with a rebellion in the north, which the king ordered Montagu to raise troops to repress in the king's name. Montagu, however, having raised a small army, turned against Edward, almost capturing him at Olney, Buckinghamshire; the king, with his other brother Richard, Duke of Gloucester, fled into exile in Burgundy.
While in exile, Warwick had allied with the old king, Henry VI and his Queen, Margaret of Anjou, Henry was restored to the throne, and Warwick now effectively ruled the kingdom, This return to Lancastrianism did not, however, last long; within the year, Edward and Gloucester had returned. Landing only a few miles from Montagu in Yorkshire – who did nothing to stop them – the Yorkists marched south, raising an army. Montagu followed them, and, meeting up with his brother at Coventry, they confronted Edward over a battlefield at Barnet. John Neville was cut down in the fighting, Warwick died soon after, and within a month Edward had reclaimed his throne and Henry VI and his line was extinguished.
Youth and early career
Montagu was the third son of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, and Alice Montacute, 5th Countess of Salisbury, and a younger brother of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, "the Kingmaker."[1]
John Neville's upbringing and career was entwined with that of the north of England and specifically, the marcher areas, the eastern and western borders between Scotland and England, controlled from Berwick and Carlisle respectively.
Feud with the Percys
Sir John Neville was from the branch of the Neville family based at
John Neville was with his brother's wedding party when Egremont
Marriage
John Neville married Isabel
John Neville's marriage caused a dispute with Queen Margaret: even though Isabel was over fourteen years old (and therefore of legal age), the Queen claimed that Isabel was still her ward. As a result, Queen Margaret insisted that John pay her a fine for his marriage to Isabel: he was bound to pay her £1,000 in ten instalments.[22]
Wars of the Roses
The king had become incapacitated in August 1453,
Although only a small affray, it resulted in the deaths of some important people; viz. the
In December 1456, the new
Reconciliation between the crown and the sons of the dead lords of St Albans on the one half and of York and his Neville allies did not last, however.
John Neville was not released until July 1460. As a result, he was not present at the Yorkists'
John Neville appears to have been Lieutenant of the castle of Calais, whilst Warwick served as its
Elevation to the peerage and war in the north
According to Benet's Chronicle, John Neville was elevated to the peerage as Lord Montagu in the January 1461 parliament.
By February 1461 Queen Margaret's army was marching south.[55] Warwick and John, with their "frantically raised" army, collected the King and marched north to confront the Queen's army on the Great North Road.[56] The two armies met on 17 February at the Second Battle of St Albans – this time, just outside the town. In the resulting encounter, Warwick was "outflanked and now outmatched,"[57] whereas John seems to have kept his army together up until the point the King's person was regained by the Lancastrians.[58] Montagu commanded the left flank of the Yorkist army, which itself was subdivided into a group of archers in the town itself, with the majority posted on Bernards Heath,[59] stretching eastwards towards Warwick's vanguard.[60] This "bloody and bitter encounter" saw Warwick and John's army defeated.[61] The Earl escaped;[62] Montagu was captured and sent to York Castle.[1]
It seems probable that he escaped execution after the battle because, as the
As a result of his capture and imprisonment in York, Montagu escaped participation in the biggest and probably bloodiest battle of the
The military campaign that followed was focused on the recapture of strategically vital castles on the Northumbrian border.
Montagu joined Warwick in escorting the chariot of six horses in the funeral cortege conveying the mortal remains of their father and brother from
Royal patronage
In the meantime though, John received the first royal patronage of the reign, being granted the royal gold and silver mines in Devon and Cornwall worth £110 annually, for life.[84] This was followed by duty payments from York and Kingston upon Hull[85] and manors belonging to the dead Lancastrian Viscount Beaumont.[86] In June 1461 he received the wardship of Edward Tiptoft, the heir of John Tiptoft, during his minority, and also the lands of Lord Clifford (who had died at Ferrybridge in a sharp encounter the night before Towton).[87] Professor A. J. Pollard has noted, ironically, that Neville "had to earn his rewards."[85] In 1462 he was appointed Steward of the Household of the Palatinate of Durham,[88] for which he received around £40 a year. This was twice the salary his legally-trained and "non-noble" successors would receive from the Bishop in later years,[89] and has been described as a "unique post."[90]
Hexham and Hedgeley Moor
In spite of Montagu's and Warwick's northern successes in the years following Towton, a not-insubstantial Lancastrian army was still active in the area; it had been slowly re-taking castles, like Bamburgh, Langley, Norham, and Prudhoe Castles, between February and March 1464. This threatened Newcastle, a major Yorkist supply centre. Local Lancastrians were returning to their estates, such as the Cliffords, who regained their castle at Skipton Craven[91] with no royal response, military or otherwise. They "virtually controlled most of the country immediately south of the Scottish border", wrote Charles Ross,[92] although very few local gentry directly supported them.[93] The situation was severe enough that in April 1464 he was too occupied with the northern situation to travel to London, and was exempted from attending the Order of the Garter Chapter meeting on the 29th of the month.[94] He has been described as the king's 'resident commander' in the north[95] and a "confident and aggressive commander."[96]
In early 1464, the Lancastrians having coalesced in the
The Scottish embassy he eventually collected at Norham had been delayed,[99] and it was on the return journey that the Duke of Somerset with Lords Roos and Hungerford, Sir Richard Turnstall, and Sir Thomas Findern and the bulk of the Lancastrian army (approximately 5,000 men)[91] ambushed Montagu at the Battle of Hedgeley Moor on 25 April 1464. The assault failed, and left Sir Ralph Percy dead on the field.[100]
Montagu, having delivered the Scottish embassy to Newcastle, left there on 14 May,
Earl of Northumberland
In May 1464, Hexham, Langley and Bywell castles surrendered to Montagu.[111] Eight days later, on 27 May, he was created Earl of Northumberland, while Henry Percy was imprisoned in the Tower.[112] The Earldom gave an income of between £700 and £1,000 a year.[113] This, wrote Cora L. Scofield, was his reward for his decisive victories, since the Crown "had played no direct part in them."[114] That summer Montagu recaptured the three Northumberland castles – Dunstanburgh, Alnwick, and Bamburgh – that had been previously lost.[115] Later that year – the "high watermark of his House, the zenith of the Nevilles"[116] – Montagu's brother George was appointed Archbishop of York, with John his Treasurer at his enthronement feast.[114] During the feast, John's wife Isabel, sat at the children's table, supervising Warwick's two daughters and the young Duke of Gloucester.[117]
Later years
Following the final crushing of the Lancastrian resistance, Montagu's role focussed on diplomacy and peacekeeping. In June 1465 he was commissioned to contract marriages "between English and Scottish subjects"
In 1465 Montagu received the main grant of the Percy Earldom of Northumberland estates,
Warden of the Marches
The Wardens were the military guardians of the border from the late fourteenth century, and their salaries made them the highest-paid among Crown officers, but this was inclusive of the cost of raising troops and maintaining defence. This has also been described as controlling "private armies raised at the Crown's expense."[128] By the mid-fifteenth century, the Wardenship of the East March was the most important of the two northern marcher lordships.[129] Marcher Wardens were granted the right to recruit by their being "explicitly" exempted from the 1468 Statute of Livery, which restrained- or attempted to restrain- retaining.[130] Montagu, however, was allowed to continue retaining in times of peace as well as war.[131] At this point Humphrey Neville was still on the run, and Montagu required troops to be raised on various occasions; in 1467, for example, Beverley sent him troops to deal with Humphrey's resistance.[132]
Warwick's rebellion
In 1467, as part of his brother's plan for a closer relationship with the French, John and Isabelle accompanied Warwick in escorting the French King's envoys to Canterbury.
On 27 October 1469, Henry Percy had taken his oath of fealty to the King, and had been released from the Tower.[138] The following year saw the return of Robin of Redesdale and another rebellion on behalf of Warwick.[139] Montagu was forced to come down from the Scottish border to suppress it;[140] this he did, but, one historian has suggested, albeit that he "allowed the leaders to escape ... ensuring that the rebellion could rise again" at a more opportune moment.[141] Almost immediately, Montagu was forced to crush another rebellion, this time led by a Robin of Holderness, but calling for the return of Percy to the Northumberland Earldom.[142] The Redesdale rebels soon reformed into an army big enough to march south and defeat a royal force at the Battle of Edgcote on 24 July 1469.[143][144] King Edward still accepted that Montagu was uninvolved in his brother's rebellion,[110] and in the event, Montagu was the only Neville to accompany the king on his journey from the north back to London.[145]
However, it was while Edward was in York that he ordered the rehabilitation of
Rebellion and death
Montagu, though, was not happy with the new arrangements, and King Edward has been held responsible for turning Montagu from a friend to an enemy.
At Doncaster, the king awaited Montagu, who was in the north raising a substantial force in Edward's name.[159] Edward waited; but on 29 September 1470, marching to the King, Montagu declared for Warwick. His last-minute, surprise defection from the king has been called "decisive".[160] The king was trapped; disbanding his army, and with a few followers, he escaped to Bishop's Lynn, sailing for Burgundy on 2 October.[161]
Readeption of Henry VI
On 3 October, with Edward IV in exile,
However, Montagu did not profit from the new regime as he probably expected to. He did not regain the Earldom of Northumberland. Further, he lost some of the Courtney lands that had come with his Marquessate to the newly returned Earl of Devon.[162] Montagu had no active role in government, and does not seem to have sat in Council,[163] although he was appointed Chamberlain to the King's Household.[164] Although he was confirmed in command of the new King's forces in the north[165] and in possession of the manor of Wressle on 21 March 1471,[166] he did not regain any other Percy estates. Indeed, it has been suggested that his loyalty might still have been suspected by the newly arrived Lancastrians: having been summoned to the November 1470 parliament, Polydor Virgil states that he had to apologise there for his prior support of Edward.[167] Montagu even had to pay cash for the king's pardon,[168] which he only received after making a lengthy speech, declaring that he had only remained faithful to Edward out of fear.[169]
Montagu, having responsibility for the defence of the north, received various commissions of array, which reflected the government's knowledge that King Edward was equipping a Burgundian-backed fleet in order to re-invade.
Battle of Barnet Heath
By 12 April 1471, Montagu, with his brother Warwick and the Duke of Exeter, the Earl of Oxford, and Viscount Beaumont were approaching London with their army.[179]
Edward, having arrived in London on 11 April and been reunited with his queen,[180] met Montagu and Warwick a few miles north of London, outside the village of Barnet. It is possible that he commanded a smaller army, perhaps of only 9,000 men,[181] and probably no more than 14,000.[182]
The battle on 14 April was a "confused affair" and fought in
The Earl of Oxford, commanding the right wing of the Neville army, broke the opposing Yorkist line, under William, Lord Hastings, early in the battle. Oxford's men proceeded to chase the fleeing soldiers, and ended up looting away from the battlefield.[1] Oxford managed to regroup his men, but, returning to the battlefield, as James Ross has put it, "disaster struck". In the time he and his force had been absent, the line of battle had shifted almost ninety degrees, so instead of returning to attack Edward's rear, he crashed into Montagu's section. The fog prevented identification, and Oxford's men fought with Montagu's. Montagu may, one chronicler suggests, have mistakenly seen Oxford's "Streaming star" banner as the king's "Sunne in splendour," and thus believe that the Earl had gone over to York.[186][181] Recently though, one historian has pointed out that, in fact, Oxford had never previously used such a cognizance, and it was more prosaically just a case of men confused by fog.[190]
At some point, possibly around this time, Montagu was killed; he was certainly dead before his brother.[191] The Arrivall chronicler states this occurred "in plain battle,"[192] and in the thick of the fighting, rather than in the rout that later followed.[193]
Aftermath
The bodies of Warwick and Montagu were laid out "on the morrow after" and "openly shewed and naked" in St. Paul's, to prevent rumour stating that they had in fact survived the battle;[194] Warkworth too said that the King personally directed this, and arranged for the corpses "to be put in a cart ... to be laid in the church of Paul's, on the pavement, that every man might see them; and so they lay for three or four days"[195] before granting permission to their brother George for their burial at Bisham Priory.[196]
Issue
By his wife Isabel Ingoldsthorpe (c.1441-1476), daughter and heiress of Sir Edmund Ingaldsthorpe (d.1456) of Burrough Green and Sawston, Cambridgeshire (who survived him and remarried, on 25 April 1472 (as his second wife), to Sir William Norreys of Yattendon[197]), he had a son and five daughters:[197]
- George Neville, Duke of Bedford (c. 1461–1483), eldest son and heir. It appears that Montagu had wanted to marry George to Anne Holland, heiress of Henry Holland, 3rd Duke of Exeter; however by 1466 she had already married Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset .[198] He died without issue, having been stripped of his dukedom in 1478.[199]
- Anne Neville, eldest daughter, who married Sir William Stonor of Stonor in Pyrton, Oxfordshire, a grandson of William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk.[197]
- Elizabeth Neville, who married firstly Thomas Scrope, 6th Baron Scrope of Masham, a dedicated Yorkist,[200] and secondly Sir Henry Wentworth of Nettlestead.[197]
- Margaret Neville, who married firstly Sir John Mortimer (died before 12 November 1504),[201] only son of Sir Hugh Mortimer and Eleanor Cornwall;[202][203] secondly Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk (marriage annulled 1507), and thirdly Robert Downes, Gentleman.[197][204]
- Lucy Neville (died 1534), who married firstly Sir Thomas FitzWilliam of
- Isabel Neville, who married firstly Sir William Huddleston of Millom, Cumberland[205] (an important regional family and old allies of the Nevilles),[206] and secondly Sir William Smythe of Elford in Staffordshire.[197]
Arms
Montagu took for his crest "a griffin issuing from a ducal crown".
Notes
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