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.

Family/Spouse: Lady Joan Fitzalan. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Margaret Brent. Margaret (daughter of William Brent) died after 1515. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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

1. Henry (Neville), 6th Lord Bergavenny was born after 1527; died on 10 Feb. 1586/87 in Comfort, Birling, Kent, England; was buried on 21 March 1586/87 in Birling, Kent, England.

Family/Spouse: Mary Brooke. Mary died after 1535. [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:

• 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:

• Hereditary Title: 17 Oct. 1388; 4th Lord Neville [E., 1295]
• Hereditary Title: 29 Sept. 1397; 1st Earl of Westmorland [E., 1397]
• Decoration: circa 1403; Knight of the Order of the Garter (K.G.)

Notes:

Decoration:
In place of Edmund, Duke of York, who died 1 August 1402.

Ralph married Lady Joan Beaufort. Joan (daughter of John (Plantagenet), of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster and Katharine de Roet) died on 13 Nov. 1440 in Howden, Yorkshire, England; was buried in Lincoln Cathedral, Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Will: 10 May 1440

Richard married Isabel (le Despenser), suo jure Lady Burghersh on 27 July 1411 in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England. Isabel was born on 26 July 1400 in Cardiff, Glamorganshire, Wales; died on 27 Dec. 1439 in Friars Minoresses, London, Middlesex, England; was buried on 13 Jan. 1439/40 in Tewkesbury Abbey, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events:

• Hereditary Title: suo jure 5th Lady (Baroness) Burghersh [E., 1330]
• Will: 1 Dec. 1439
• Probate: 4 Feb. 1439/40

Notes:

Inq. post mortem at Abingdon, June 1441.