Clement-Jones family 12/22 - Person Sheet
Clement-Jones family 12/22 - Person Sheet
NameGeorge NEVILLE 4th and 2nd Baron Bergavenny, 12693
Birth1440
Death1492
FatherEdward NEVILLE 3rd Baron Bergavenny , 12696 (1414-1476)
Spouses
Death1485
FatherSir Hugh FENNE , 12715
ChildrenEdward , 12579 (1471-1538)
 George , 12694 (1469-1535)
 Thomas , 12716 (1484-1542)
Notes for George NEVILLE 4th and 2nd Baron Bergavenny
George Neville, or Nevill, 4th and de jure 2nd Baron Bergavenny (c.1440 – 20 September 1492) was an English nobleman.

Career

George Neville was the son of Edward Neville, 3rd Baron Bergavenny and Elizabeth Beauchamp. He was knighted by Edward IV on 9 May 1471,[1] after fighting for the King at the Battle of Tewkesbury. He succeeded his father in 1476.

Marriages and issue

Neville married firstly, before 1 May 1471, Margaret Fenne (d. 28 September 1485), the daughter and heiress of Hugh Fenne, Treasurer of the Household to King Henry VI, Escheator of Norfolk & Suffolk, by whom he had six sons and a daughter:[2][3]
George Neville, 5th Baron Bergavenny (c.1469–c.1535).

John Neville.[5]

William Neville.[6]

Sir Edward Neville (1471–1538), who married, before 6 April 1529, Eleanor (née Windsor), widow of Ralph Scrope, 9th Baron Scrope (d. 17 September 1515), and daughter of Andrew Windsor, 1st Baron Windsor.[7] He was the ancestor of George Washington through his granddaughter Catherine.[8]

Sir Thomas Neville (c.1484–1542), Speaker of the House of Commons, who married firstly Katherine Dacre, and secondly Elizabeth Bryce.[9]

Sir Richard Neville[10] (bef. 1485 – c.1515).

Elizabeth Neville, who married firstly Thomas Berkeley, esquire, of Avon, Hampshire, and secondly Richard Covert, esquire, of Slaugham, Sussex.[11]
He married secondly a wife named Elizabeth whose surname is unknown. She was the widow successively of Richard Naylor, Sir Robert Bassett, and John Stokker. There were no issue of his second marriage.[2][12]

Bergavenny was a captain in the English forces at Calais in 1490, and died in 1492.[1]
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