John Neville (died 1420)

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John Neville
Lord Neville
Bornc. 1387
DiedMay 1420 (aged c. 33)
Verneuil
FamilyHouse of Neville
Spouse(s)Elizabeth Holland (m. c. 1394)
Issue
FatherRalph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland
MotherMargaret Stafford
Arms of Neville: Gules, a saltire argent

Sir John Neville (c. 1387 – May 1420) was the eldest son of

nobleman in northern England, and Margaret Stafford (d. 1396), his first wife.[1] As heir apparent to the earldom of Westmorland,[2] he was styled 'Lord Neville'.[3]

Life

John was born in or before 1387.

Eleanor.[6]

However, sometime before 1396, his father had married

enfeoffments in favour of the children he was now having with Joan, particularly the eldest son, Richard, later Earl of Salisbury. This effectively disinherited John who, curiously, seems to have "acquiesced" in the process as, on one occasion at least, he acted as a witness to one of the transfers.[7] It is possible that Ralph did not intend to deprive John of as much as he eventually did: Ralph made a will in 1404, which, many years later, John's son (also Ralph
) appears to have believed very much favoured his side of the family.

This will was superseded by a much later one, written after John had predeceased his father,[1] which happened whilst he was in France, shortly before 20 May 1420 (probably at Verneuil).[4] His demise led to a dispute between his sons and siblings for the distribution of the inheritance of the Earl of Westmorland. This created lasting divisions within the Neville family, resulting in the Neville–Neville feud, which later subsumed into the Wars of the Roses. It has been suggested that John Neville is one of the figures in the Neville Book of Hours of c. 1431.[8]

Marriage and issue

John Neville married Elizabeth Holland (c. 1388 – 1423), daughter of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent, around 1394. They had three sons and one daughter:[9]

  1. Ralph Neville, 2nd Earl of Westmorland (4 April 1406 – 3 November 1484)[10]
  2. Margaret Neville (c. 1408 – between 5 May 1426 and 5 May 1434), who married Sir Thomas Lucy and left no issue[11]
  3. earldom of Westmorland
    .
  4. Sir Thomas Neville of Brancepeth (d. 22 February[13] c. 1459), third son, he married Elizabeth daughter of Henry Beaumont, 5th Baron Beaumont son of John Beaumont, 4th Baron Beaumont. father of Sir Humphrey Neville of Brancepeth[12]

References

  1. ^
    ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8. Archived from the original on 7 February 2019. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  2. ISBN 978-1-4499-6639-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
    )
  3. ^ Complete Peerage (1936). G.E. Cokayne; H.A. Doubleday & Lord Howard de Walden (eds.). The Complete Peerage. Vol. 9 (2nd ed.). London: The St. Catherine Press. p. 504.
  4. ^ a b Cokayne, G.E.; White, G.H., eds. (1959). The Complete Peerage. Vol. 12 (2nd ed.). London: The St. Catherine Press. p. 548.
  5. ISBN 978-0-521-49723-7
    .
  6. ^ Ross 1950, p. 25.
  7. ^ Ross, Charles (1950). The Yorkshire Baronage, 1399–1435 (PhD). University of Oxford.
  8. ISBN 978-1-4742-7225-4
    .
  9. ^ Richardson III 2011, p. 249.
  10. ^ Cokayne & White 1959, pp. 549–550.
  11. ^ Richardson III 2011, pp. 66, 251.
  12. ^ a b Richardson III 2011, pp. 250–252.
  13. ^ Watson, G.W. (1916). "Deincourt". In G.E. Cokayne; Vicary Gibbs & H. Doubleday (eds.). The Complete Peerage. Vol. 4 (2nd ed.). London: St. Catherine Press. pp. 126–127.
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