Letitia (Harcourt) Neville (abt. 1468 - 1520)

Born about 1468 in Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, England

Ancestors

Wife of Humphrey Peshale — married before 1495 in England

Wife of Thomas Neville Esq — married 1511 in Stanton Harcourt,,Oxfordshire,England

Descendants

Died 1520 at about age 52 in Shenstone Park, Staffordshire, England

Biography

Father John Harcourt, Esq.^[1] b. c 1450, d. 26 Jun 1485

Mother Anne Norris^[2] b. c 1446, d. a 1493

Lettice Harcourt was born circa 1468 at of Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire, England.^[3]

She married Humphrey Peshall, Esq., Justice of the Peace for Staffordshire, son of Richard Peshall, Esq., Sheriff of Staffordshire. They had 1 son (Richard).^[4] he was said to be age three years at his father's death in May 1498,^[5] so Lettice and Humphrey will have married before 1495.

Lettice Harcourt married Thomas Neville, Esq., Sheriff of Staffordshire, Justice of the Peace for Worcestershire, son of Sir Henry Neville and Joan Bourchier, between 28 May 1498 and 19 March 1504; They had 1 son (Richard) & 3 daughters (including Ellen, wife of Kenelm Bucke).^[6]

Family 1

• Humphrey Peshall, Esq., Justice of the Peace for Staffordshire d. 28 May 1498

Children

• Richard

Family 2

• Thomas Neville, Esq., Sheriff of Staffordshire, Justice of the Peace for Worcestershire b. c 1470, d. 1546

Children

• Richard
• Ellen, wife of Kenelm Bucke
• 2 more daughters

Research Notes

Children by First Marriage

In Magna Carta Ancestry^[2] and Royal Ancestry^[7] Douglas Richardson states that Lettice was the mother of Humphrey Peshale's daughters Eleanor, Joan and Elizabeth. He has since revised his view and concluded that their mother was Humphrey's first wife, said to be Agnes Egerton. One major reason for this change of view is that the IPM of their brother Richard names two first cousins as Richard's heirs and next of kin.^[5] This strongly suggests that Eleanor, Joan and Elizabeth were half-siblings of Richard: had they been full siblings, they would have been named as heirs of Richard.^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 377-378
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 309-310.
3. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 152.
4. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. III, p. 212.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1} Horace Field Parshall. The Parshall Family A.D. 870-1913, Francis Edwards (London), 1915, p. 109, Internet Archive
6. ↑ Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. III, p. 2-3.
7. ↑ Douglas Richardson. Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols, ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City: the author, 2013), Vol. I, pp. 524-525, BRESSEY 17
8. ↑ 'Mother of Eleanor Peshale', conversation in soc.genealogy.medieval started 21 December 2021

• http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p878.htm#i26358
• Unknown author, Winslow Ancestry, American Genealogist, p. 171' Burke's Commoners, Vol. II, p. 222.
• Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, pp. 152, 377-8, 440.