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.

Family/Spouse: Margaret Fenne. Margaret died on 28 Sept. 1485. [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.

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]

Family/Spouse: Mary Brooke. Mary died after 1535. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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]