George Neville, or Nevill, 4th and de jure 2nd Baron Bergavenny ( 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, after fighting for the king, who was his cousin, at the Battle of Tewkesbury. He succeeded his father in 1476.
Marriages and issue Neville married firstly, before 1 May 1471, Margaret Fenn (d. 28 September 1485), the daughter and heiress of Hugh Fenn, by whom he had six sons and a daughter:.
George Neville, 5th Baron Bergavenny (c. 1469 – c. 1535) John Neville. William Neville 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 Sir Thomas Neville (c. 1484 – 1542), Speaker of the House of Commons, who married, firstly, Katherine Dacre, and, secondly, Elizabeth Bryce. Sir Richard Neville (bef. 1485 – c. 1515) Elizabeth Neville, who married, firstly, Thomas Berkeley, esquire, of Avon, Hampshire, and, secondly, Richard Covert, esquire, of Slaugham, Sussex
He married, secondly, Elizabeth Warde. https://www.academia.edu/105430899/A_Much_Married_Widow_Elizabeth_Warde_Nayler_Basset_Stokker_Neville_Lady_Bergavenny_of_London_d_1500_2023_ She was the widow, successively, of Richard Naylor, Sir Robert Basett and John Stokker. There were no issue with his second marriage.
Bergavenny was a captain in the English forces at Calais in 1490, and died in 1492.
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