Richard NEVILLE

1428 - 1471  (42 years)

• Name	Richard NEVILLE  [1, 2]
  	Richard Neville 'the Kingmaker', Knt., Earl of Warwick juer uxoris, Earl of Salisbury (succeeding his other), son and heir, born 22 Nov 1428; after the recovery of King Henry VI from madness he became a staunch Yorkist and at the first battle of St. Albans on 22 May 1455 'had the good fortune to decide the day and win somewhat easily a military reputation'; defeated the Lancastrians at Northampton on 10 July 1460, and captured King Henry VI whom he brought to London; still in charge of the King in London when the Yorkists were defeated at the battle of Wakefield on 30 December (in which his father was taken prisoner, being beheaded the next day, when he succeeded to the great Neville estate of Middleham, co. York); on 17 Feb 1460/1 put to flight by the Lancastrians at the 2nd battle of St. Alans, and allowed King Henry VI to be recaptured, but having joined the young Duke of York, the entered London; one of the peers who declared the Duke to be King, as Edward IV; commanded the centre in the decisive Yorkist victory at Towton on 29 Mar 1461. The King's marriage, however, in May 1464, to Elizabeth Wydeville and the favour shown to the Queen's relatives alienated him; secretly planned his restoration to authority throughout 1468; allowed to cross to Calais early in 1469; joined by his brother George, Archbishop of York, and by the King's brother, the Duke of Clarence, to whom he there married Isabel, his eldest daughter and co-heiress presumptive; these three joined the Yorkshire insurgents; then suppressed the Lancastrian rising in the North; slain at Barnet on Easter Sunday 14 Apr 1471 s.p.m. buried Bisham Abbey, co. Berks. [1]
  Birth	22 Nov 1428  [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	14 Apr 1471	Battle of Barnet   [1, 2]
  Burial	Bisham Abbey, Berkshire   [2]
  Person ID	I41171	Main Tree
  Last Modified	15 Apr 2018

  
  

  Father	Sir Richard DE NEVILLE, K.G.,   b. Abt 1400   d. 31 Dec 1460, Executed - Pontefract Castle, after Battle of Wakefield (Age 60 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Alice MONTAGU,   b. Abt 1408   d. Between 03 Apr and 09 Dec 1462
  Relationship	Birth
  Marriage	Bef Feb 1420/1  [1, 3]
  Family ID	F06824	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Anne DE BEAUCHAMP,   b. Abt Sep 1426, Caversham d. Abt 1490 (Age 63 years)
  Children	+ 1. Isabel NEVILLE,   b. 05 Sep 1451, Warwick Castle, England d. 12 Dec 1476, Warwick Castle (Age 25 years)  [Birth] + 2. Anne NEVILLE,   b. 11 Jun 1456, Warwick Castle, England d. 16 Mar 1485, Westminster Palace (Age 28 years)  [Birth]
  Family ID	F06825	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	26 Apr 2018

  
  

• Event Map

  Death - 14 Apr 1471 - Battle of Barnet Burial - - Bisham Abbey, Berkshire  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S5008] David Faris, "Plantagenet Ancestry of Seventeenth-Century Colonists", (Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.). [S01910] Blood Royal, Issue of the Kings and Queens of Medieval England 1066-1399 by. T. Anna Leese. [S5840] Frederick Lewis Weis, Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonist Who Came to America before 1700.