ID: I5781
Name: Richard Neville
Given Name: Richard
Surname: Neville
Suffix: 1st Earl of Salisbury
Sex: M
_UID: 88072AFA5118D811BE490080C8C142CC23E6
Change Date: 6 Feb 2004
Note:
Neville, Richard, Earl of Salisbury (1400-1460), English soldier, who supported the Yorkist side during the Wars of the Roses. Neville was the son of Ralph Neville, 1st earl of Westmorland. In 1425 Neville married Alice, the only daughter of Thomas Montagu, 4th earl of Salisbury. Upon Montagu’s death in 1428, Neville inherited his holdings and assumed his title.

Neville was warden of both the western and the northern marches and from 1453 to 1455 was chancellor during the protectorate of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd duke of York. In 1459 he joined the Yorkists against King Henry VI, a Lancastrian, and participated in the Yorkist victory at Blore Heath in 1459. After the Yorkist defeat at Ludford later in the year, Neville was forced to seek refuge in France.

Neville returned to London in 1460 and after the king's capture at Northampton was made great chamberlain of England. But in December 1460, the night after the attle of Wakefield during which Richard Plantagenet was killed, Neville was captured by the Lancastrians and taken to Pontefract Castle, where he was murdered. His eldest son, Richard Neville, called the Kingmaker, was the 2nd earl of Salisbury in the Neville line and also earl of Warwick by marriage.

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Birth: 1400
Death: of beheaded 30 DEC 1461 in Wakefield, England

Father: Ralph Neville b: ABT 1364 in Raby Castle, Durham, England
Mother: Joan de Beaufort b: ABT 1379 in Beaufort, Anjou, France

Marriage 1 Alice Montagu b: 1406
Married: AFT 1421
Children
Joan Neville
Cecily Neville
Alice Neville b: 1431
Richard Neville b: 22 NOV 1428
Thomas Neville
John Neville b: 1431
George Neville b: 1433
Eleanor Neville
Catherine Neville b: 1442
Ralph Neville b: infant
Robert Neville b: infant
Margaret Neville