Thomas Nevill

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Sir

Thomas Neville
Bornin or before 1484
Died29 May 1542
BuriedMereworth, Kent
Spouse(s)Katherine Dacre
Elizabeth Bryce
IssueMargaret Neville
FatherGeorge Neville, 4th Baron Bergavenny
MotherMargaret Fenn

Sir Thomas Neville or Nevill (in or before 1484 – 29 May 1542) was a younger son of George Neville, 4th Baron Bergavenny. He was a prominent lawyer and a trusted councillor of King Henry VIII, and was elected Speaker of the House of Commons in 1515.

Family

Neville was the fifth son of George Neville, 4th Baron Bergavenny (1436–1492), by his first wife, Margaret Fenn (d. 28 September 1485), the daughter and heir of Hugh Fenne.[1][2]

Career

Mereworth church, where Sir Thomas Neville is buried

Although there is no formal record of his legal education,[3] Neville was a member of Gray's Inn, and by 1514 had begun to oversee the legal process by which tenants in chief of the Crown sued out their liveries to obtain possession of their estates. In 1529 he was appointed to supervise the suing out of all liveries involving lands in England, Wales and Calais.[3] Between the years 1516 and 1527 he was also in frequent attendance at meetings of King Henry VIII's council, and was active in both Star Chamber and the Court of Requests. It is said that by 1522, of the Masters of Requests only he and Sir Thomas More had access to the King.[2]

Details of Neville's early Parliamentary career are unclear, although it is likely he represented a constituency in

Field of Cloth of Gold and Henry VIII's meeting with Emperor Charles V. He is recorded as having received a New Year's gift from the King in 1533, and was among the courtiers present when Anne of Cleves was welcomed at Dover.[2]

In 1521 his eldest brother,

George Neville, 5th Baron Bergavenny, was disgraced, and was compelled to sell his principal manor of Birling in Kent to the Crown. In 1538 another of his brothers, Sir Edward Neville, was executed. However the misfortunes which befell his brothers appear to have had no effect on Neville's own career.[2][3]

In 1535, he was involved in unsuccessful negotiations to marry his only child, Margaret, to

Sir Robert Southwell.[3][2]

Although he did not acquire extensive lands, Neville was wealthy enough to lend money to other courtiers, including the King's brother-in-law, Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of Suffolk, and Henry Percy, 5th Earl of Northumberland.[2]

Neville made his will on 23 May 1542, appointing as executors his cousin, Sir Thomas Willoughby, Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, and Sir John Baker. He died six days later, and was buried in Mereworth church in Kent, where he is commemorated by a memorial brass.[3][2]

Marriages and issue

Neville married firstly Katherine (née Dacre), widow of George FitzHugh, 7th Baron FitzHugh, d. 28 January 1513,[

Sir Robert Southwell. After the death of Sir Robert Southwell, Margaret married William Plumbe. She died 25 December 1575, and was buried in the Church of St Giles at Wyddial, Hertfordshire, where there is a memorial brass commemorating her.[6]

Neville married secondly Elizabeth (née Bryce), widow of Robert Amadas (d. 7 April 1532), a London goldsmith and Master of Henry VIII's Jewel House, who predeceased him, and by whom he left no issue.[3][2]

Notes

  1. ^ Cokayne 1910, p. 31.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Davies 2004.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h Bindoff 1982, p. 11.
  4. ^ Bindoff 1982, p. 10.
  5. ^ Richardson II 2011, p. 18; Richardson III 2011, p. 298.
  6. ^ Andrews 1903, p. 161.

References

  • Andrews, William Frampton (1903). Memorial Brasses in Hertfordshire Churches (2nd ed.). London: Elliot Stock. p. 161. Retrieved 22 May 2013.
  • Bindoff, S.T. (1982). The House of Commons 1509-1558. Vol. III. London: Secker and Warburg. pp. 10–11. Retrieved 22 May 2013.
  • Cokayne, George Edward (1910). The Complete Peerage, edited by Vicary Gibbs. Vol. I. London: St. Catherine Press. pp. 30–1.
  • Davies, Catharine (2004). "Neville, Sir Thomas (b. in or before 1484, d. 1542)".
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/19964. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  • Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G. (ed.). Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. Vol. II (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City.
    ISBN 978-1449966386.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
    )
  • Richardson, Douglas (2011). Everingham, Kimball G. (ed.). Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families. Vol. III (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City.
    ISBN 978-1449966393.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
    )

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