Edward Neville, 3rd Baron Bergavenny

Edward Neville
Baron Bergavenny
Spouse(s)	Lady Elizabeth de Beauchamp Katherine Howard
Issue
Richard Nevill Sir George Nevill Alice Nevill Catherine Nevill Catherine Nevill Margaret Nevill Anne Nevill
Noble family	House of Neville
Father	Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland
Mother	Joan Beaufort
Born	1414
Died	18 October 1476

Edward Nevill, de facto 3rd (de jure 1st) Baron Bergavenny (bef. 1414 – 18 October 1476) was an English peer.

He was the son of Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland and Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland, daughter of John of Gaunt and Katherine de Roet (better known as Katherine Swynford). Nevill was knighted sometime after 1426.^[1]

In 1436 he married Lady Elizabeth de Beauchamp (d. 18 June 1448), daughter of Richard de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Worcester and the former Lady Isabel le Despenser, who later succeeded as de jure 3rd Baroness Bergavenny, and they had the following children:

• Richard Nevill (bef. 1439 – bef. 1476)
• Sir George Nevill (c.1440–1492), later 4th and 2nd Baron Bergavenny
• Alice Nevill, married Sir Thomas Grey
• Catherine Nevill (b.c.1444), married John Iwardby

Bergavenny, as he was now styled, was a justice of the peace for Durham in 1438.^[1]

Shortly after his first wife's death, in the summer or fall of 1448, he married Katherine Howard, daughter of Robert Howard and sister of the 1st Duke of Norfolk, and they had the following children:

• Catherine Nevill (b. c. 1452/bef. 1473), married Robert Tanfield (b. 1461), son of Robert Tanfield and Elizabeth Brooke, daughter of Edward Brooke, 6th Baron Cobham and Elizabeth Touchet, born c. 1433, and had issue
• Margaret Nevill (b.bef. 1476-1506), married John Brooke, 7th Baron Cobham
• Anne Nevill (b.bef 1476-1480/81)

He was a captain in the embattled Duchy of Normandy in 1449.^[1] His eldest son Richard was one of the hostages given to the French when the English surrendered the city of Rouen in that year.

After the death of his first wife, he was summoned to Parliament in 1450 as "Edwardo Nevyll de Bergavenny", by which he is held to have become Baron Bergavenny. At the time, however, this was considered to be a summons by right of his wife, and so he was considered the 3rd, rather than the 1st, Baron.

In 1454, he was appointed to the Privy Council assembled by the Duke of York as Lord Protector, along with his more prominent Nevill kinsmen. He was a commissioner of array in Kent in 1461, and was a captain in Edward IV's army in the North the following year. He was again a commissioner of array in 1470, remaining loyal to Edward IV, unlike his nephew, the Earl of Warwick^[1]

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Ancestors of Edward Neville, 3rd Baron Bergavenny

16. Ralph Neville, 1st Baron Neville de Raby               8. Ralph Neville, 2nd Baron Neville de Raby                       17. Euphemia de Clavering               4. John Neville, 3rd Baron Neville de Raby                             18. Hugh de Audley               9. Alice Audley                       19. Iseude Mortimer               2. Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland                                   20. Henry de Percy, 1st Baron Percy               10. Henry de Percy, 2nd Baron Percy                       21. Eleanor Fitzalan               5. Maud Percy                             22. Robert de Clifford               11. Idoine de Clifford                       23. Margaret de Clare               1. Edward Nevill, 3rd Baron Bergavenny                                         24. Edward II of England               12. Edward III, King of England                       25. Isabella of France               6. John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster                             26. William I, Count of Hainault               13. Philippa of Hainault                       27. Joan of Valois               3. Joan Beaufort                                   28.               14. Payne de Roet                       29.               7. Katherine Swynford                             30.               15.                       31.

References

External links

• thepeerage.com page

Peerage of England
New creation	Baron Bergavenny 1447–1476	Succeeded by George Nevill

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Name	Bergavenny, Edward Nevill, 3rd Baron
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Date of death	18 October 1476
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