Alexander Neville

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Alexander Neville (c. 1340 - May 1392) was Archbishop of York between 1374–1388.

He was a member of one of the most powerful families in the North of England, the son of Ralph, Lord Neville of Raby.

He became canon of York and a favourite of King Richard II, and in 1374, he was made Archbishop of York.

On the rising against Richard in 1386, however, he was accused of treason and it was determined to imprison him for life in Rochester Castle.

Neville fled, and the Pope, pitying his case, translated him to the Scottish See of St. Andrews in 1388. But the Scots would not receive him and, for three years (until his death in 1392), he served as a parish priest in Louvain, where he was buried in the Church of the Carmelites.

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Preceded by John of Thoresby	Archbishop of York 1374–1388	Succeeded by Thomas Arundel