George Nevill, 5th Baron Bergavenny: Difference between revisions

Family background.

One of the best known of English noble families, the de Neville's first acquired the title and estates of the Barony of Abergavenny when the honour was bestowed upon Edward Neville, who was summoned to parliament under this title in 1450.

This Edward Neville was the youngest son of the 1st earl of Westmoreland, by Joan Beaufort, the daughter of John of Gaunt. Neville married the heiress of Richard, earl of Worcester, whose father had inherited the castle and estate of Abergavenny, and was summoned to parliament in 1392 as the Lord Bergavenny.

Sir George Neville.

Sir George Neville, the 5th Lord Bergavenny was the elder brother of Sir Edward Neville who was born about 1475, and executed the 9th of January 1540 charged with "devising to maintain, promote, and advance one Reginald Pole, late Dean of Exeter, enemy of the King, beyond the sea, and to deprive the King". (Reginald Pole seems to have been a cousin of Neville's).

The mother of George and Edward Neville was Margaret (Fenne), she was born in about 1444 at Sculton Burdeleys in Norfolk, England. She was the second wife of the three marriages of the 4th lord Bergavenny, and is recorded as having died on the 28th of September, in the year of 1485.

Sir George Neville was born about 1469 in Abergavenny in Monmouthshire, Wales; the son of Sir George Neville 4th Lord Bergavenny. They had two sisters Jane and Elizabeth.

Sir George Neville died around about the September of 1535 and was buried before January the 24th, 1536 in Birling, Kent, England.

5th Lord Bergavenny married the lady Mary Brooke of Cobham.

Other marriages:

Mary Lady Stafford
Joan Fitz-Alan
Margaret Brent

Additional note: See Neville Family history above.

"The heirs male of Edward, Lord " Bergavenny " (now " Aber-gavenny" co. Monmouth), who died in 1476, have retained their place in the peerage under that style to the present day by a special and anomalous devolution. His wife, the only child of Richard (Beauchamp), earl of Worcester (d. 1422), brought him the great estates which had come to her line with Fitz Alan and Despencer heiresses, and in 1450 he was summoned as Lord Bergavenny, though not seized of that castle. Their grandson, George (c. 1471-1535) the 3rd lord, was in favor with Henry VII and Henry VIII, and recovered from the latter in 1512 the castle and lands of Abergavenny. He was prominent in the French campaigns of 1513-14 and 1523."