Richard Neville , KG, Earl of Salisbury 
Richard was born in 1400 in Castle Raby, Durham, England. Richard's father was Ralph de Neville , KG, 1st Earl Westmorland and his mother was Joan Beaufort. His paternal grandparents were John 3rd Baron de Neville , of Raby, KG, Sir and Maud de Percy; his maternal grandfather was John Plantagenet of Gaunt , Duke of Lancaster. He had two brothers and four sisters, named George, Edward, Katherine, Eleanor, Anne and Cecily de. He was the third oldest of the seven children. He had a half-brother and three half-sisters, named Ralph de, Maud (Mathilda) de, Philippa de and Mary de. He died at the age of 60 on December 31st, 1460 in Beheaded at Pontefract, Yorkshire, England.General Notes
Lord Chamberlain of England
Supporter of Henry VI
Executed (beheaded) at Pontefract Castle on 12-31-1461, the day after the battle of Wakefield for siding with the Yorkists.
Head was fixed upon a gate of the city of York
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Richard Nevill, K.G., eldest son of Ralph Nevill, 1st Earl of Westmoreland, by his 2nd wife, Joane de Beaufort, dau. of John of Gaunt, and widow of Robert, Lord Ferrers, of Wem, m. the Lady Alice Montacute, dau. and heir of Thomas, 4th Earl of Salisbury, and had that earldom revived in his person, by letters patent, dated 4 May, 1442, with remainder to the said Alice, and with £20 annual rent out of the issues of the co. of Wilts. Her ladyship inherited the old Baronies of Montacute and Monthermer, which had been so long in her family. This nobleman obtained from King Henry VI numerous substantial grants and some of the highest and most important trusts; amongst others he was appointed warden of the marches towards Scotland, and governor of Carlisle, and had large territorial gifts from the crown, with a grant of £9,083 6s. 8d. per annum out of the customs for thirty years, yet he was one of the earliest to espouse the cause of the house of York and one of the most determined in maintaining it. His lordship fought and won, in conjunction with the Duke of York, the first pitched battle, that of St. Albans, between the contending Roses, and he followed up his success by defeating the Lord Audley at Blore Heath in 1458, and again in 1460, at Northampton, when he was constituted by the Yorkists Lord Great Chamberlain of England. The fortune of war changing, however, in the very next encounter, the battle of Wakefield, the Duke of York fell, the Yorkists were routed, Salisbury's son, Sir Thomas Nevill, slain, and the earl himself made prisoner, when his head was immediately cut off and fixed upon a pole over one of the gates of the city of York. His lordship had issue by the heiress of the Montacutes, who d. 1463, Richard, Earl of Warwick, Thomas, John, George, Ralph, Robert, Joane, Cicely, Alice, Eleanor, Katherine, and Margaret. [Sir Bernard Burke, Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 395, Nevill, Earls of Salisbury, Earl of Warwick, Baron Montacute, Baron Monthermer]
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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- b.~ 1331 in Raby Castle, Durham, England d.17 Oct 1388 in Newcastle-on-Tyne, Northumberland, England
- b.< 1364 in Raby Castle, Durham, England d.21 Oct 1425 in Raby Castle, Durham, England
- b.~ 1344 in Warkworth Castle, Alnwick, Northumberland, England d.BEF. 18 FEB 1378/79
- b.1400 in Castle Raby, Durham, England d.31 Dec 1460 in Beheaded at Pontefract, Yorkshire, England
- b.MAR 1339/40 in Bavon Abbey, Ghent, Flanders d.3 FEB 1398/99 in Leicester Castle, London, Middlesex, England
- b.1375 in Beaufort Castle, Maine-et-Loire, Anjou, France d.13 Nov 1440 in Howden, Yorkshire, England
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