Other Events:

• Hereditary Title: From 1535 to 10 Feb. 1586/87; 6th Lord (Baron) Bergavenny [E., 1392]
• Decoration: 29 Sept. 1553; Knight of the Order of the Bath (K.B.)
• Office: 1 Oct. 1553; Chief Larderer at the coronation of Queen Mary
• Administration: 9 May 1587; Granted to his widow

Notes:

He was one of the 26 peers who signed the letters patent, 16 June 1553, settling the Crown on Lady Jane Grey.

On 6 October 1586 he was one of the Peers who tried Mary, Queen of Scots, at Fotheringhay.

Hereditary Title:
He was summoned to Parliament 23 January 1551/52 to 15 October 1586.

Henry married Lady Frances Manners before 31 Jan. 1555/56. Frances was buried in Sept. 1576 in Birling, Kent, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Elizabeth Darrell. Elizabeth (daughter of Stephen Darrell and Philippe Weldon) died after Feb. 1601/02. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Office: Constable of Dover Castle
• Office: Warden of the Cinque Ports
• Decoration: 4 July 1483; Knight of the Order of the Bath (K.B.)
• Hereditary Title: From 20 Sept. 1492 to 1535; 5th Lord (Baron) Bergavenny [E., 1392]
• Office: 24 June 1509; Chief Larderer at the coronation of Henry VIII
• Decoration: 23 April 1513; Knight of the Order of the Garter (K.G.)
• Office: 1516; Privy Councillor (P.C.)
• Office: 1 June 1533; Chief Larderer at the coronation of Anne Boleyn, Queen Consort
• Will: 4 June 1535
• Probate: 24 Jan. 1535/36

Notes:

He served in the wars against France, and was in the battle of Blackheath, 17 June 1497, against the Cornish rebels.

Sir Roger Wilbraham, temp. Elizabeth, relates a smart retort, made apparently by this Lord, to Henry VIII. "The L. of Burgaveny had morgaged that house; the King having an ynkling thereof at his meeting with him said 'God morow my L. of Burgaveny without Burgaveny;' the Lord more boldly than discreetly said to the King 'God morow my liege Lord, King of France without France.' This tale is not only amusing, but has a practical bearing; for if Abergavenny were a Barony by tenure, and if the fond "conceipt that the Castle and Lordship of A. should draw the stile and dignity" were true, then a mortgage, which transfers the legal ownership, would have also transferred the peerage; but the Lords having no notice of the transfer would have continued to summon Mr. Nevill, and by so doing would (according to modern peerage law) have conferred a new peerage on him of the same date as the summons, while as soon as the mortgagee had foreclosed on Abergavenny and taken possession, they could not refuse him his writ of summons to the ancient Barony. It is clear that such a process might recur, and that by now we might have a collection of Lords Abergavenny of various dates, which, as Euclid says, is absurd.

To him, 18 December 1512, Henry VIII granted the castle and lands of Abergavenny, &c., which, in 1389, had been inherited by William Beauchamp, Lord Bergavenny (1392), whose representative he was through his grandmother. His vast estates, derived chiefly from the Beauchamp family, he entailed on himself and the heirs male of his body, with remainder to his brothers Thomas and Edward respectively in like manner, and this entail, made by his will, being confirmed by Act of Parliament (31 January (1555/56) 2 and 3 Philip and Mary), preserved them intact to the succeeding Lords.

Hereditary Title:
He was summoned to Parliament 16 January 1496/97 to 5 January 1533/34. There is proof in the Rolls of Parliament of his sitting.

Decoration:
Installed 7 May 1513.

Buried:
His heart was buried at Mereworth, Kent.

George married Lady Mary Stafford circa June 1519. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Hereditary Title: From 18 Oct. 1476 to 20 Sept. 1492; 4th Lord (Baron) Bergavenny [E., 1392]

Notes:

On 12 January 1476/77, he had livery of the lands of his parents, but he never had seizin of Abergavenny.

He was one of the Barons at the coronation of Richard III.

George married Margaret Fenne. Margaret died on 28 Sept. 1485. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Decoration: 29 Oct. 1485; Knight of the Order of the Bath (K.B.)
• Decoration: circa 1499; Knight of the Order of the Garter (K.G.)
• Office: 1509; Bearer of the Crown
• Office: 1509; Lord High Constable
• Office: 1509; Lord High Steward of England
• Office: 1509; Privy Councillor (P.C.)
• Hereditary Title: Nov. 1485 – May 1521; 3rd Duke of Buckingham [E., 1444]
• Hereditary Title: Nov. 1485 – May 1521; 4th Earl of Buckingham [E., 1377?]
• Hereditary Title: Nov. 1485 – May 1521; 8th Earl of Stafford [E., 1351]
• Hereditary Title: Nov. 1485 – May 1521; 9th Baron Stafford [E., 1299]
• Hereditary Title: Nov. 1485 – May 1521; Count of Perche [Normandy, 1431]

Notes:

He had licence to castellate his manor of Thornbury, 9 July 1510.

He held a command in the right wing at Therouenne in 1513.

Office:
For Henry VIII's coronation

He laid claim to this office, as his hereditary right, in 1514. He claimed the Lord High Constableship as heir of Humphrey de Bohun, Earl of Hereford, who, it was stated, "held the manors of Harlefield, Newnam, and Whytenhurst [Haresfield, Newnham, and Wheatenhurst], in the county of Gloucester of the King by the service of being Constable of England." The judges decided that the office should "have continuance in the Duke notwithstanding that one of the three manors has come to the hands of our Lord the King; for otherwise it will ensue that the Duke will have the two other manors without doing any service for them, and so the Duke is compellable at the pleasure of the King to do and exercise the office." For an account of the confusion into which the judges were led by their misconception of the nature of the tenure of this office, which was not in fact attached to the manors but was an office held in fee; and of the confusion worse confounded in which Law Lords and Counsel in modern peerage cases have been involved owing to their blind acceptance of the decision in this case, see J. H. Round's Peerage and Pedigree (vol. i, pp. 147–166), where an amusing exposure of legal methods is given in the article termed "The Muddle of the Law." See also Appendix D in The Complete Peerage, volume II (1912).

Office:
At Henry VIII's coronation

Office:
At Henry VIII's coronation

Died:
Beheaded for High Treason, having made an enemy of Wolsey and endangered his position by his vanity, especially his loquacity in reminding hearers of his descent from Edward III, following which his titles were forfeited by attainder (Parliamentary ratification 31 July 1523).

Edward married Lady Eleanor Percy circa 14 Dec. 1490. Eleanor (daughter of Henry (Percy), 4th Earl of Northumberland and Lady Maud Herbert) died on 13 Feb. 1530; was buried in Greyfriars, London, Middlesex, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Will: 24 June 1538

Notes:

Will:
She directed that her heart be buried at the Greyfriars, London, and her body at the Greyfriars, Bristol.

Other Events:

• Hereditary Title: (de facto) 3rd and (de jure) 1st Lord (Baron) Bergavenny [E., 1392]

Notes:

Hereditary Title:
A year after the death of his wife, he obtained, on 14 July 1449, licence from Henry VI to enter on the lands, &c., of Abergavenny, and, from 5 September (1450) 29 Hen. VI to 19 August (1472) 12 Edw. IV, was summoned to Parliament as a Baron [LORD BERGAVENNY], by writs directed "Edwardo Nevill domino de Bergevenny chivaler," though he does not appear to have been seized, except for a short time, of the Castle and lands of that name.

Edward married Elizabeth (Beauchamp), suo jure Lady Bergavenny before 18 Oct. 1424. Elizabeth (daughter of Richard (Beauchamp), 1st Earl of Worcester and Isabel (le Despenser), suo jure Lady Burghersh) was born on 16 Sept. 1415 in Hanley Castle, Worcestershire, England; died on 18 June 1448; was buried in Carmelite Friary, Coventry, Staffordshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Hereditary Title: suo jure (3rd) Lady (Baroness) Bergavenny [E., 1392]

Notes:

In (1435) 14 Hen. VI, she was found heiress to her grandmother (who had held the lands of Abergavenny and others in dower), when she and her husband had livery of the lands of her inheritance, but not of the castle and lands of Abergavenny, to which her right did not accrue till 11 June 1446, even on the most favourable interpretation to the Nevill family of the entail of 1395/96, unless, indeed, that entail is, from some unknown cause, to be considered as invalid, against her right as heir at law to her grandfather, the maker of the entail.

On 11 June 1446 the male line of the Beauchamp family, who [under the entail 20 February 1395/96, of William (Beauchamp), 1st Lord Bergavenny] were entitled to the castle and lands of Abergavenny, became extinct by the death, sine prole mascula, of Henry (Beauchamp), Duke and Earl of Warwick. The words of the entail are, "Thomas, Earl of Warwick, and his heirs male for ever." Under the construction that such estate constituted one in fee, the castle, &c., is stated to have been held in fee, in the Inq. post mortem of Richard, Earl of Warwick (who died 1439), and of Henry, Duke of Warwick, his son and heir. It is to be noted that Coke says "where lands are given to a man and his heirs male he hath a fee simple, because it is not limited, by the gift, of what body the issue male shall be." Anyhow, the castle, &c., was for a long time afterwards withheld from this branch of the Nevill(e) family by Anne, daughter and heiress of this Duke Henry, and Anne, sister of the said Duke, who married Richard (Neville), Earl of Warwick and Salisbury [on whose seal, of date 1 February 4 Edw. IV (1464/65) is Sigillum : ricardi : neuill : comitis : warrewici : domini : de : bergeuenny : see the Visitation of Huntingdonshire, 1613, Camden Society, page 74.]. Besides these, it was asserted in Fane's case that George, Duke of Clarence, and Richard, Duke of Gloucester, his [i.e. the Earl of Warwick and Salisbury's] sons-in-law, were successively seized of the castle and lordship as in right of their wives; that Henry VII granted the castle &c., to Jasper, Duke of Bedford; and that after the death of Jasper sine prole, the property was restored by Henry VIII to George Neville, Lord of Bergavenny, upon a petition of right. (Collins, Baronies by Writ, page 79.) "The fact seems to have been as thus stated, and therefore the Nevill family, during the seisin of the several persons before named, could not have been summoned to parliament in consequence of their seisin of the Castle and Lordship of Bergavenny, not having such seisin." (Lords' Reports, volume i, page 443.) Sir Edward Neville, however, asserted his wife's right as heir at law (notwithstanding the entail) and "Undeuly entred upon us in the place and Castel of Bergevenny, whereof the heir is our warde." See commands for his expulsion therefrom issued to the Duke of York by Henry VI on 15 October [1447?] printed in Bentley's Excerpta Historica (1831), page 6.

Notes:

Married:
In 1426 Edward Neville (as "Dominus de Bourgevenny") had summons to take, with the King himself, the order of Knighthood, although he does not occur in the chronclers' lists of those knighted, consequent on this summons, by Henry VI, at Leicester, on Whitsunday, 19 May 1426.

Other Events:

• Office: 17 June 1460; Constable of Nottingham Castle
• Decoration: 26 May 1465; Knight of the Order of the Bath (K.B.)
• Decoration: 1474; Knight of the Order of the Garter (K.G.)
• Office: 1483; Warden of the Cinque Ports
• Office: July 1483; Lord High Constable
• Hereditary Title: 10 July 1460 – 2 Nov. 1483; 2nd Duke of Buckingham [E., 1444]
• Hereditary Title: 10 July 1460 – 2 Nov. 1483; 3rd Earl of Buckingham [E., 1377?]
• Hereditary Title: 10 July 1460 – 2 Nov. 1483; 7th Earl of Stafford [E., 1351]
• Hereditary Title: 10 July 1460 – 2 Nov. 1483; 8th Baron Stafford [E., 1299]

Notes:

He was beheaded without trial and attainted, 2 Nov. 1483, for conspiring on behalf of the future Henry VII.

Decoration:
At the coronation of Elizabeth, wife of Edward IV.

Office:
Recognised as hereditary

Henry married Lady Katharine Woodville. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Office: 24 June 1470; Warden of the East and Middle Marches
• Office: 1474; Privy Councillor (P.C.)
• Office: 14 Aug. 1474; Sheriff of Northumberland
• Decoration: 18 Aug. 1474; Knight of the Order of the Garter (K.G.)
• Will: 27 July 1485
• Office: 30 Nov. 1483 – 22 Aug. 1485; Lord Great Chamberlain of England
• Hereditary Title: 25 March 1470 – 28 April 1489; 4th Earl of Northumberland [E., 1377 or 1416]
• Hereditary Title: Feb. 1483/84 – 28 April 1489; Lord Poynings [E., 1337]
• Probate: 9 Aug. 1491

Notes:

When the Earldom of Northumberland was granted to "Sir John Neville of Montagu, Knight," in May 1464, Percy was committed to the Fleet prison, and removed, after September 1465, to the Tower, whence he was discharged 27 October 1469, having done fealty to Edward IV.

In 1467–8 he was in the charge of the Earl of Pembroke, and living in his house.

Following his discharge from the Tower, he appears to have remained in touch with the King until the Earldom was restored to him at York, 25 March 1470.

The following day, as Sir Henry Percy, Kt., he had a grant of the custody of his father's forfeited estates in Yorkshire, Cumberland, Lincolnshire, Leicestershire, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, and London. Neville had surrendered his grant so far as it concerned Northumberland, by the King's command, 22 February.

The Earl recovered possession as from 2 March 1469/70 (possibly the date of his coming of age), by the Act reversing his father's attainder, 1472.

He attended a Council at Canterbury in June 1470.

On 24 June 1470, as Henry Percy, son of the late Earl, he was constituted Warden of the East and Middle Marches towards Scotland, three months before Edward IV's flight. He was so constituted by patent dated 17 July; a patent of the following day calls him Earl of Northumberland.

He retained the Wardenship under successive Kings till his death.

He held numerous other official appointments in the North—e.g. Commissioner to treat with the Scots, 1471–73, 1483, 1484, 1488; of array in the Northern counties, 1472; Justice of the Forests North of Trent and constable of Bamborough Castle, 5 June 1471; constable of Dunstanborough and Knaresborough Castles; constable and porter of the castle of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 5 March 1473/74. By Henry VII he was made bailiff of Tyndale, Northumberland, in 1486.

On his return in 1471, Edward IV, landing in the North, produced a letter, as of summons, from the restored Earl, which eased his progress towards recapture of the throne.

In 1475 he took part in Edward IV's expedition to France.

He was in command at the capture of Berwick, 1482, and made Governor thereof, 1483. His prowess was commended by the Commons in Parliament.

He bore the sword Curtana at the Coronation of Richard III, 7 July 1483.

He deserted Richard III on Bosworth Field.

Office:
"The Earl was made sheriff of Northumberland for life, 14 Aug. 1474, and (by Henry VII) during pleasure, 12 Feb. 1487/8."

Hereditary Title:
"The death of his mother, in Feb. 1483/4, made him, according to modern doctrine, Lord Poynings [1337]."

Died:
"Being employed to levy in the North an unpopular tax and to inquire into disturbances in the city of York, he was murdered by the rabble at his manor house, Cock Lodge, near Topcliffe, Yorks, 28 Apr. 1489, aged about 40 ..."

Henry married Lady Maud Herbert circa 1476. Maud (daughter of William (Herbert), 1st Earl of Pembroke and Anne Devereux) died before 27 July 1485; was buried in Beverley Minster, Beverley, Yorkshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Buried:
For an account of the opening of her tomb, 15 September 1671, see Gough's Sepul. Mon., volume ii, pt. 3, page 311, and Allen's Hist. of York, volume ii, page 158.