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Richard Neville KB (abt. 1468 - 1530)

Sir Richard "2nd Baron Latimer" Neville KB
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Biography

Birth

Richard Neville, Lord Latimer was born around 1468. He was the son of Henry Neville and Joan Bourchier.

Minority

His father died on 26 July 1469 at the Battle of Edgcote and his mother died on 7 October 1470. His grandfather George Neville, First Baron Latimer, also died 30 or 31 December 1469.[1][2][3]

After his father's and grandfather's death Richard became heir apparent to his grandfather and was referred to by his mother on her will in 1470 as Lord Latimer.[4][5][6]

Since he was an orphan, on 19 May 1470 King Edward IV granted Richard's wardship and marriage to his great-uncle Thomas Bourchier, Cardinal Archbishop of Canterbury. The grant was vacated and at the same time confirmed by another grant to the same individual on 10 December 1471.[7] Nevertheless, his wardship and marriage must have been transferred to Humphrey Stafford, his future father-in-law, sometime before or around 1483 judging by an entry found in the Harleian Manuscript 433 which records a payment to be made by Stafford to King Richard III:

To Gartier King of Armes and to othre harauldes and porsuyantz C.li of money to be payed by the handes of Humfrey Stafford Squyer of suche money as he owethe the Kyng for the warde and mariage of the lord Latymere. for the Kinges largesse the day of his Coronacion[8]

Lord Latimer

On 8 May 1491 Richard was given livery without proof of age and was acknowledged as Lord Latimer, son and heir of Henry Neville and heir of George Neville, late Lord Latimer, his grandfather, tenant in chief and also heir to Elizabeth Beauchamp, wife of George with respect to his possessions in the counties of Westmorland, Cumberland, Lincoln, Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Somerset, Dorset, Devon, Cornwall, Gloucester, Hereford, Wilts, Worcester, Warwick, Leicester, Northampton, Rutland, Oxford, Berks, Bedford, Buckingham, Cambridge and Huntingdon, the cities of London and Worcester, the castles, lordships or manors and towns of Snape, Well, Mekeley, Thornbargh, Synyngton, Marton, Scamston, Rillyngton, Thornton, Danby and in the town of Pykeryng, all in the county of York.[9]

Later that same year, Richard and Robert Willoughby of Brook (or Broke) were both summoned to parliament by writs issued on 12 August. They were both summoned for a meeting at Westminster on the following 17 October. Willoughby's writ was addressed to Roberto Willughby de Broke ch[ivale]'r, to which he protested claiming to be entitled to the style of Lord Latimer and required to be given such place in Parliament. He claimed to descend from John Neville, of Danby, (1381-1430), who enjoyed the title of Lord Latimer before George Neville. John Neville of Danby died without a male heir so his title fell into abeyance. According to Cokayne, modern doctrine would support Willoughby's claim. Nevertheless, at the time it was argued that since the title was originally created by writ to William Neville in 1299 and not by letters patent it became extinct when his descendent failed to produce a male heir. Therefore the sovereign could give said title to whomsoever he chose.[1]

Willoughby was notified by a herald that his claim had been made incorrectly and nothing else was done. The matter seems to have been settled by a redistribution of assets and an alliance. Willoughby and Richard decided to marry their children and grandchildren: before the age of twelve John, Richard's eldest son, should marry Anne, daughter of Willoughby's eldest son, and Edward, eldest son of Willoughby's eldest son, should marry Margaret, Richard's eldest daughter.[10][11] [12] Although the second marriage took place, it does not seem that the first one ever happened.

Marriage

Richard married first Anne Stafford probably before 1493 when their first son John Neville was born.[13][14][15] Hicks in his essay Richard Lord Latimer, Richard III and the Warwick Inheritance estimates that their marriage must have happened before 1486, year in which her father Humphrey Stafford was attainted and executed. As the daughter of a traitor Anne would have been an unattractive prospect for marriage, therefore Hicks believes it is likely that Richard married her before her father's conviction.[16]

Richard and Anne had at least fifteen children in the following order according to a manuscript in the Ashmolean Museum giving the dates of birth of all Richard Neville, Lord Latimer's children: [17]

  1. John Neville, b. 1493, d. 1543.[18]
  2. Margaret Neville, b. 1495.[18]
  3. Dorothy Neville, b. 1496.[18]
  4. William Neville, b. 1497.[18]
  5. Katherine Neville, b. 1499.[18]
  6. Elizabeth Neville, b. 1500,[18]
  7. Susan Neville, b. 1501.[18]
  8. Thomas Neville, b. 1502.[19]
  9. Joan Neville, b. 1504.[19]
  10. Humfrey Neville, b. 1505.[19]
  11. Marmaduke Neville, b. 1506.[19]
  12. Marmaduke Neville, b. 1508, d. c. 1545.[19]
  13. George Neville, b. 1509, d. 1567.[19]
  14. Christopher Neville, b. 1511.[19]
  15. Christopher Neville, b. 1513. d. after 1542.[19]

Richard married second Margaret, probably Margaret Danby, widow of James Strangwishe, possibly James Strangeways. She may have been the daughter of James Danby and Agnes Langton.[20] Richard and Margaret were granted license to marry on 5 July 1522.[21]

Courtly Life and Military Career

Richard was born during the reign of Edward IV and lived under the rule of several other monarchs: Richard III, Henry VII and Henry VIII. The political situation was not always stable, nevertheless, Richard seems to have managed to remain afloat through loyalty to the crown and military service.[22] He was made Knight of the Bath on 17 January 1477-8, on the occasion of the marriage of Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, the King's 2nd son, to Anne Mowbray, daughter of John Mowbray, Duke of Norfolk.[23]

Richard was fighting on the King's side at the Battle of Stoke Field on 14 June 1487, which is considered to be the last battle in the Wars of the Roses. He also fought on Henry VII's side in the Warbeck Rebellion in 1496.[3][24]

In 1513 Richard fought at the Battle of Flodden Field in which he was one of the commanders of the King's army.[25]

Richard also took part in several commissions during Henry VIII's reign, especially Commissions of the Peace.[26][27][28]


Death and Probate

Cokayne estimated that Richard died between the 12th and the 28th of December 1530.[29] His assessment can be confirmed by two entries on Henry VIII's Letters & Papers. The first one in which Richard's eldest son is referred to as John Nevell on 12 December 1530 and then as John Nevyle, Lord Latymer on 28 December of the same year. That second entry is a declaration made by two of Richard's sons, George and Christopher Neville, in which they reject John Neville's division of goods and chattels belonging to their late father.[30][31] Records of Richard's death and/or burial have not been found to date, nevertheless, that second entry makes it clear that he died before 28 December 1530. It is believed that he was buried with his first wife at St Michael's church in Well.

Roger Dodsworth recorded his observation of a Latin inscription, about a grate of iron, at the Church of Well in 17 October 1622 indicating that Richard Neville, Second Baron Latimer, and his wife Anne Stafford were buried there.[32] Such inscription can no longer be found at the church. Dodsworth's transcription is as follows:

Hic jacet Ricardus Nevil, miles, dominus de Latimer, et Anna uxor ejus filia Humfridi Stafford, domina de Latymer, filii (sic) Henrici Nevil, militis, fili Georgii Nevil, domini de Latymer tertii (sic), et Elizabethe uxoris predicti Georgii (tertii, filii Ranulphi de Nevill, Comitis Westmerlandiae, et Johannae uxoris ejus), filie et una (sic) heredum Ricardi de Beauchampe, Comitis Warwici, et Elizabethe uxoris ejus, filiae et heredis Thome domini de Barkley, et Margarete uxoris ejus, filiae et heredis Warini Lisle. Orate pro hiis et omnibus fidelibus.
Translation:
Here lies Richard Nevil, Knight, Lord de Latimer, and Anne, his wife, daughter of Humphrey Stafford, Lady de Latymer, son of Henry Nevil, Knight, son of George Nevil, third Lord de Latymer,[33] and Elizabeth aforesaid wife of George the third, son of Ralph de Nevil, Earl of Westmoreland, and Johan his wife, daughter and only heiress to Richard de Beauchamp, Earl Warwick, and Elizabeth his wife, daughter and heiress to Thomas, Lord de Barkley [Berkeley], and Margaret his wife, daughter and heiress to Warine Lisle. Pray for him and all of those faithful.


Pedigrees

Several pedigrees of this branch of the Neville family have been published. None of them seem complete, several are inaccurate, especially concerning Richard's children in terms of age. Also, most pedigrees failed to include the children who seem to have died in early infancy. Please, find some of them listed below:

  • The Complete Peerage by Cokayne shows an incomplete pedigree, focusing more on the eldest sons and daughters and their spouses;[34]
  • The visitation of Yorkshire in the years 1563 and 1564 by William Flower is also incomplete, but included 5 different Neville branches.[35]
  • An History of Richmondshire, in the North riding of the county of York by Whitaker and Turner includes eleven of Richard's fifteen children and they appear in the wrong order of birth.[36]
  • History and Antiquities of The County of Northampton, volume 1, by George Baker from 1822 includes all of Richard's children although not all of their spouses. It is also missing John Neville, 3rd Baron Latimer's second wife.[37]
  • The Dormant And Extinct Baronage Of England, volume 2, by Thomas Christopher Banks shows the succession of the Barony of Latimer. It includes only twelve of Richard's children and only a few of their spouses.[38]


Sources

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Cokayne, George Edward & Gibbs, Vicary. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Vol. 7. London, St Catherine Press, 1929, p. 480-482.
  2. ↑ Book: Warkworth, John, d. 1500; University of Cambridge. Petershouse. Library. Mss (230); Halliwell-Phillipps, J. O. (James Orchard), 1820-1889, A chronicle of the first thirteen years of the reign of King Edward the Fourth
    London, Printed for the Camden society, by J. B. Nichols and son; 1839; page: 6
    Internet Archive (accessed 7 February 2024)
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Book: Hicks, M. A. (Michael A.), The Wars of the Roses
    New Haven : Yale University Press; 2010
    Internet Archive (accessed 30 March 2024)
  4. ↑ England, Richmond. The National Archives, Kew. Will of Dame Jane Nevill, Widow. October 1470. PROB 11/5/475.
  5. ↑ Book: Dugdale, William, Sir, 1605-1686; Hollar, Wenceslaus, 1607-1677, The antiquities of Warwickshire illustrated : from records, leiger-books, manuscripts, charters, evidences, tombes, and armes : beautified with maps, prospects, and portraictures
    London : Printed by Thomas VVarren; 1656; page: 360
    Internet Archive (accessed 7 February 2024)
  6. ↑ Book: Nicolas, Nicholas Harris, Sir, 1799-1848. dn, Testamenta vetusta: being illustrations from wills, of manners, customs, &c. as well as of the descents and possessions of many distinguished families. From the reign of Henry the Second to the accession of Queen Elizabeth;
    London, Nichols & son; 1826; page: 308
    Internet Archive (accessed 8 February 2024)
  7. ↑ Book: Great Britain. Public Record Office, Calendar of the patent rolls preserved in the Public Record Office : Edward IV, Henry VI, A.D. 1467-1477
    London : H. M. Stationery Office; 1900; page: 209, 295-6
    Internet Archive (accessed 9 February 2024)
  8. ↑ R. E. Horrox and P. W. Hammond eds. British Library Harleian Manuscript 433, 4 vols. Vol 1. Upminster and London: The Richard III Society, 1979—83, p. 68. Accessed on the website of the Richard III Society on 3 March 2024.
  9. ↑ Book: Great Britain., Calender of the patent rolls, preserved in the Public Record Office. Henry VII v.1 1485-1494
    London, H. M. Stationery Office, 1914-1916?; page: 339
    HathiTrust (accessed 9 February 2024)
  10. ↑ Cokayne, George Edward. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Revised edition. Vol. 12, part 2. London: The St Catherine Press, 1929, p. 685.
  11. ↑ Book: Burke, John, 1787-1848, A general and heraldic dictionary of the peerages of England, Ireland, and Scotland, extinct, dormant, and in abeyance
    London, H. Colburn and R. Bentley; 1831; page: 306
    Internet Archive (accessed 11 February 2024)
  12. ↑ Book: Collins, Arthur, Proceedings, precedents, and arguments, on claims and controversies, concerning baronies by writ, and other honours. With the arguments of Sir Francis Bacon, ... and others. Published from the manuscript collections of Robert Glover, ... and others:
    1734; page: 12
    Internet Archive (accessed 9 February 2024)
  13. ↑ Book: Surtees Society, The Publications of the Surtees Society
    [S.l. : s.n.]; 1835; page: (36 of 236)
    Internet Archive (accessed 11 February 2024)
  14. ↑ Book: Collectanea topographica et genealogica
    London J.B. Nichols; 1834; page: 174
    Internet Archive (accessed 17 November 2023)
  15. ↑ Book: G E Cokayne. Complete Peerage, revised edition, Vol. VII, St Catherine Press, 1929, The Complete Peerage Vol-vii
    1929; page: (494 of 770)
    Internet Archive (accessed 2 February 2024)
  16. ↑ Hicks, M. A. Richard Lord Latimer, Richard III and the Warwick Inheritance. The Ricardian Online. Vol. 12, number 154, Sep. 2001, p. 314-20, p. 317.
  17. ↑ Book: Collectanea topographica et genealogica
    London J.B. Nichols; 1834; page: 174
    Transcription of (MS. Ashmole 837, fol. 177b.) Internet Archive (accessed 20 January 2024)
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 18.3 18.4 18.5 18.6 Book: Collectanea topographica et genealogica
    London J.B. Nichols; 1834; page: 174
    Internet Archive (accessed 17 November 2023)
  19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 19.2 19.3 19.4 19.5 19.6 19.7 Book: Collectanea topographica et genealogica
    London J.B. Nichols; 1834; page: 175
    Internet Archive (accessed 17 November 2023)
  20. ↑ Book: Foster, Joseph, 1844-1905. cn, Pedigrees of the county families of Yorkshire
    London, The compiler; 1874; page: (352 of 424)
    Internet Archive (accessed 2 February 2024)
  21. ↑ July/GRANTS. 2415. GRANTS in JULY 1522.(...) 5. Ric. Nevile lord Latimer. Licence to marry Margaret, widow of Sir James Strangwishe. Del. Alton5 July 14 Hen. VIII.—S.B. Pat. p. 1, m. 11. "Henry VIII: July 1522," in Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 3, 1519-1523, ed. J S Brewer (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1867), 1001-1020. British History Online, accessed February 2, 2024, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol3/pp1001-1020.
  22. ↑ Ford, L. L. "Neville, Richard, second Baron Latimer (c. 1467–1530), soldier." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 23 Sep. 2004; Accessed 11 Feb. 2024. https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-19956.
  23. ↑ According to Shaw The marriage was solemnised on the 15th Jan. These knights were elected on the 17th, and dubbed on the 18th Jan., 1477-8. Book: Shaw, William Arthur, 1865-1943; Burtchaell, George Dames, 1853-1921, The Knights of England. A complete record from the earliest time to the present day of the knights of all the orders of chivalry in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of knights bachelors, incorporating a complete list of knights bachelors dubbed in Ireland
    London Sherratt and Hughes; 1906; page: 137
    Internet Archive (accessed 11 February 2024)
  24. ↑ Book: Arthurson, Ian, The Perkin Warbeck conspiracy, 1491-1499
    Stroud : History; 2009; page: 220
    Internet Archive (accessed 11 April 2024)
  25. ↑ 7 Sept. S.P. Scotl., Hen. VIII., vol. 1, f. 17. R.O. Ellis, 1 S. I. 86. 2239. [4439.] SURREY to JAMES IV. "Henry VIII: September 1513, 1-10," in Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 1, 1509-1514, ed. J S Brewer (London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1920), 997-1012. British History Online, accessed February 11, 2024, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol1/pp997-1012.
  26. ↑ 'Appendix: Commissions of the Peace and Miscellaneous', in Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 1, 1509-1514, (London, 1920) pp. 1533-1557. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol1/pp1533-1557 [accessed 16 March 2024]
  27. ↑ Book: Great Britain. Public Record Office, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
    London : Longmans, H.M.S.O; 1862-1932; pages: 304, 357, 733, 826, 832, 842, 906 and 907
    Internet Archive (accessed 7 March 2024)
  28. ↑ Book: Great Britain. Public Record Office, Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII
    London : Longmans, H.M.S.O; 1862-1932; page: 2216
    Internet Archive (accessed 7 March 2024)
  29. ↑ Cokayne, George Edward. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Revised edition. Vol. 7. London: The St Catherine Press, 1929, p. 482.
  30. ↑ December/GRANTS. 6803. . GRANTS in December 1530.(...) 12. York, North Riding: John Nevell (...) Westm., 12 Dec.—Pat. 22 Hen. VIII. p. 1, m. 13d. "Henry VIII: December 1530," in Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 4, 1524-1530, (London, 1875) pp. 3059-3078. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol4/pp3059-3078 [accessed 17 March 2024.
  31. ↑ 28 Dec. Lansd. MS. 203, f. 197. B. M. 6776. LORD LATYMER. 'Henry VIII: December 1530, 19-28', in Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, Henry VIII, Volume 4, 1524-1530, (London, 1875) pp. 3059-3078. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/letters-papers-hen8/vol4/pp3059-3078 [accessed 17 March 2024]
  32. ↑ Book: John William Clay (ed), YAS Record Series Vol. 34: Yorkshire church notes, 1619-1631, by Roger Dodsworth
    Yorkshire Archaeological Society; pages: 225 and 226
    Internet Archive (accessed 20 April 2024)
  33. ↑ Although George Neville was the first Lord Latimer of Snape, he was the third Neville to become Lord Latimer after John (Neville) de Neville and Ralph Neville. Book: Horsfall, Thomas, Notes on the Manor of Well and Snape in the North Riding of the County of York
    Leeds, Whitehead; 1912; page: 41
    Internet Archive (accessed 17 March 2024)
  34. ↑ Book: G E Cokayne. The Complete Peerage (revised edition) Vol-vii, St Catherine Press,
    1929; page: (Latimer pedigree between pages 452 and 453)
    Internet Archive (accessed 11 February 2024)
  35. ↑ Book: Flower, William, ca. 1498-1588; Norcliffe, Charles Best; Harleian Society, The visitation of Yorkshire in the years 1563 and 1564
    London : Mitchell and Hughes; 1881; page: 224
    Internet Archive (accessed 15 February 2024)
  36. ↑ Book: Whitaker, Thomas Dunham, 1759-1821; Turner, J. M. W. (Joseph Mallord William), 1775-1851, ill, An history of Richmondshire, in the North riding of the county of York : together with those parts of the Everwicschire of Domesday which form the wapentakes of Lonsdale, Ewecross, and Westmoreland
    London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Browne, Hurst, Robinson, and Co., and Robinson and Hernaman; 1823; page: (660 of 1169)
    Internet Archive (accessed 15 February 2024)
  37. ↑ Book: George Baker, History And Antiquities Of The County Of Northampton Baker Vol 1
    1822; page: (446 of 813)
    Internet Archive (accessed 4 March 2024)
  38. ↑ Book: Banks, T. C. (Thomas Christopher), 1765-1854., The dormant and extinct baronage of England V.2
    London, J. White, 1807-37; pages: 299 and 300
    HathiTrust (accessed 30 March 2024)

See also:

  • Richardson, Douglas. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, in 5 vols. (Salt Lake City, Utah, 2013): vol III, page 540, Richard Neville under LATIMER.




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