George Nevill, 4th Baron Bergavenny
English nobleman (c. 1440 – 1492)
George Neville, or Nevill, 4th and de jure 2nd Baron Bergavenny (c. 1440 – 20 September 1492), was an English nobleman.
Career
George Neville was the son of Edward Neville, 3rd Baron Bergavenny and Elizabeth Beauchamp . He was knighted by Edward IV on 9 May 1471,[ 1] Battle of Tewkesbury . He succeeded his father in 1476.
Marriages and issue
Neville married firstly, before 1 May 1471, Margaret Fenn (d. 28 September 1485), the daughter and heiress of Hugh Fenn , by whom he had six sons and a daughter:[ 3]
George Neville, 5th Baron Bergavenny (c. 1469 – c. 1535)[ 3] John Neville[ 4]
William Neville[ 4]
Sir Edward Neville (1471–1538), who married, before 6 April 1529, Eleanor (née Windsor), widow of Ralph Scrope, 9th Baron Scrope (d. 17 September 1515), and daughter of Andrew Windsor, 1st Baron Windsor [ 3] Sir Thomas Neville (c. 1484 – 1542), Speaker of the House of Commons, who married, firstly, Katherine Dacre, and, secondly, Elizabeth Bryce[ 5] Sir Richard Neville[ 5]
Elizabeth Neville, who married, firstly, Thomas Berkeley, esquire, of Avon, Hampshire, and, secondly, Richard Covert, esquire, of Slaugham, Sussex[ 5] He married, secondly, Elizabeth Brent. She was the widow, successively, of Richard Naylor, Sir Robert Basett and John Stokker. There were no issue with his second marriage.[ 3]
Bergavenny was a captain in the English forces at Calais in 1490, and died in 1492.[ 1]
Ancestry
Ancestors of George Nevill, 4th Baron Bergavenny 16. Ralph Neville, 2nd Baron Neville de Raby 8. John Neville, 3rd Baron Neville de Raby 17. Alice Audley 4. Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland 18. Henry de Percy, 2nd Baron Percy 9. Maud Percy 19. Idoine de Clifford 2. Edward Neville, 3rd Baron Bergavenny 20. Edward III of England 10. John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster 21. Philippa of Hainault 5. Lady Joan Beaufort 22. Payne de Roet 11. Katherine Swynford 1. George Nevill, 4th Baron Bergavenny 24. Thomas de Beauchamp, 11th Earl of Warwick 12. William de Beauchamp, 1st Baron Bergavenny 25. Katherine Mortimer 6. Richard de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Worcester 26. Richard Fitzalan, 11th Earl of Arundel 13. Lady Joan FitzAlan 27. Elizabeth de Bohun 3. Elizabeth de Beauchamp 28. Edward le Despencer, 1st Baron le Despencer 14. Thomas le Despenser, 1st Earl of Gloucester 29. Elizabeth de Burghersh 7. Isabel le Despenser, Countess of Worcester and Warwick 30. Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York 15. Constance of York 31. Infanta Isabella of Castile
Notes
References
Cokayne, G. E. (1910). Gibbs, Vicary (ed.). The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct or dormant (Ab-Adam to Basing) Davies, Catharine (2004). "Neville, Sir Thomas (b. in or before 1484, d. 1542)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 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. I (2nd ed.). Salt Lake City. ISBN 978-1449966379 {{cite book }}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link )
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