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| III (bis). 1450. | Sir Edward Nevill,[1] a year after the death of his wife (as above), obtained, on 14 July 1449, licence from Henry VI to enter on the lands, &c., of Abergavenny, and, from 5 Sep. (1450) 29 Hen. VI to 19 Aug. (1472) 12 Edw. IV, was sum. to Parl.[2] as a Baron [LORD BERGAVENNY],[3] by writs directed "Edwardo Nevill domino de Bergevenny militi," and on and after 30 July 38 Hen. VI., "Edwardo Neville 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. He m., 2ndly, (by spec. disp., 15 Oct. 1448) Katharine, da. of Sir Robert Howard, by Margaret, da. of Thomas (Mowbray), Duke of Norfolk; she, with whom he had cohabited in the lifetime of his 1st wife, was related to him in the third degree. He d. 18 Oct. 1476.[4] His widow was living 29 June 1478. |
| IV. 1476. | 4. George (Nevill) Lord Bergavenny, 2nd but 1st surv. s. and h. by 1st wife, b. at Raby Castle, and bap. at Staindrop, co. Durham. He was knighted at Tewkesbury, by Edward IV, 4 May 1471; was aged 36 and more[5] in 1476. On 12 Jan. 1476/7, 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.[6] He was sum. to |
- ↑ The origin of the Nevills is shewn by J. H. Round in his Feudal England to be from Dolphin Fitz Uchtred (who received 'Staindropshire' from the Prior of Durham in 1131), whose grandson, Robert fitz Meldred, of Raby, m. Isabel de Nevill, and by her was father of Geoffrey de Nevill (who took his mother's name) from whom the Lords Abergavenny deduce a direct male descent. Some dates and facts (not to be found elsewhere) are in an Account of the noble family of Nevill, particularly of the House of Abergavenny, by Daniel Rowland, Esq., London, 1830, folio. The account in Drummond's Noble British Families of this branch of the Nevill family is very jejune.
- ↑ There is proof in the rolls of Parl. of his sitting.
- ↑ The Nevills, Lords Bergavenny, differenced the arms of Nevill of Raby with a red rose on the saltire. (ex inform. Oswald Barron.) V.G.
- ↑ The monument in the Priory Church at Abergavenny, formerly supposed to be his, is now recognised as being of an earlier date. V.G.
- ↑ In the 17 inquisitions taken after his father's death, it is uniformly stated that "dictus Edwardus obiit die Jovis decimo octavo die mensis Octobris predicto anno [r. R. Edwardi] sexto decimo et quod Georgius Nevill miles est suus filius et heres propinquior et est etatis triginti et sex annorum et amplius" (Ch. Inq. p. m., Edw. IV, file 58, no. 66). 18 Oct. 1476 was, however, a Friday. (ex inform. G. W. Watson). V.G.
- ↑ For a list of the 35 peers there present see note sub ii (1) Lord Dacre de Gillesland.
recites a deed whereby "Edwardus Nevill miles et Elizabetha de Beauchamp domina de Burgavenny" gave to Philip Thomas the advowson of the Church of [St. Bride] "beate Frigitte in nostro dominio de Burgavenny… Sigilla nostra apposuimus in castro nostro de Burgavenny vicessimo secundo die Julii anno regni Regis Henrici sexti post conquestum vicessimo septimo [1449]." This charter, if genuine, must be incorrectly transcribed, the date being some thirteen months after Elizabeth Beauchamp's death. (ex inform. G. W. Watson.) V.G.
