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Sir Richard de Neville

Male 1400 - 1460  (60 years)


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  • Name Sir Richard de Neville  [1, 2, 3, 4
    Born 1400  Raby Castle, Durham, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Gender Male 
    Occupation 1420 
    Invested as a Knight 
    Occupation 1424 
    Keeper of the forests beyond the Trent 
    Occupation 1428 
    Earl of Salisbury 
    Occupation 1429 
    Constable of England 
    Occupation 1432 
    Constable of Pontefract Castle 
    Occupation 1420-1434 
    Warden of the West Marches towards Scotland 
    Occupation 1434-1435 
    Warden of the East and West Marches towards Scotland 
    Occupation 1436 
    Commissioner to treat for peace with France in the Hundred Years War 
    Occupation 1437 
    Invested as a Privy Counsellor 
    Occupation 1446 
    Governor of Barnard Castle 
    Occupation 1454 
    Chancellor of England 
    Occupation 1454 
    Keeper of Porchester Castle 
    Occupation 1450-1455 
    Sat in the House of Lords 
    Military 22 May 1455 
    Fought at the first Battle of St. Albans (leading Yorkist in the early years of the Wars of the Roses) 
    Occupation 29 Oct 1460 
    Lord Great Chamberlain 
    Military 30 Dec 1460 
    Captured at the battle of Wakefield (Yorkshire) 
    Died 31 Dec 1460  York, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Cause: Beheaded after the battle of Wakefield 
    Person ID I13341  Godbout
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 

    Father Sir Ralph de Neville,   b. 1363, Raby Castle, Durham, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 21 Oct 1425, Raby Castle, Durham, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 62 years) 
    Mother Joan Beaufort,   b. 1379, Château de Beaufort, Maine-et-Loire, France Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 13 Nov 1440, Howden, Yorkshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 61 years) 
    Married Bef 29 Nov 1396  Château de Beaufort, Maine-et-Loire, France Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F2781  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Alice de Montagu,   b. 1407, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Bef 9 Dec 1462  (Age 55 years) 
    Married 1421  Salisbury, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Children 
     1. Richard Neville of Warwick,   b. 22 Nov 1428, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 14 Apr 1471, Battle of Barnet (10 miles north of London), England Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 42 years)
     2. Catherine Neville,   b. Abt 1435, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Aft 22 Nov 1503  (Age ~ 68 years)
    Last Modified 18 Apr 2017 
    Family ID F6891  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Sources 
    1. [S7] The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, George Edward Cokayne; Vicary Gibbs, H. A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand & Howard de Walden, editors, (Reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), Volume XI, pp. 395-398 & Vol. XII/2, p. 547 (h).

    2. [S728] A General and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerages of England, Ireland and Scotland, John Burke, Esq., (Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, New Burlington Street, London, 1831), 34 & 387-388.

    3. [S747] The History and Antiquities of the Counties of Westmorland and Cumberland, Joseph Nicolson and Richard Burn, (Printed for William Strahan; and Thomas Cadell, in the Strand, London, 1777), Volume 1, p. 153.

    4. [S633] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America before 1700, Frederick Lewis Weis. Edited with additions and corrections by Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr.; assisted by David Faris, (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 7th Edition, Baltimore, Maryland, 1992), 76:78-35.