George (Neville), 5th Lord Bergavenny

circa 1469 - 1535  (~ 66 years)

• Name	George (Neville)  [1]
  Suffix	5th Lord Bergavenny
  Born	circa 1469  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Decoration	4 July 1483  [1]
  	Knight of the Order of the Bath (K.B.)
  Hereditary Title	From 20 Sept. 1492 to 1535  [1]
  	5th Lord (Baron) Bergavenny [E., 1392]
  	He was summoned to Parliament 16 January 1496/97 to 5 January 1533/34. There is proof in the Rolls of Parliament of his sitting. [1]
  Office	24 June 1509  [1]
  	Chief Larderer at the coronation of Henry VIII
  Decoration	23 April 1513  [3]
  	Knight of the Order of the Garter (K.G.)
  	Installed 7 May 1513. [2]
  Office	Constable of Dover Castle  [1]
  Office	Warden of the Cinque Ports  [1]
  Office	1516  [4]
  	Privy Councillor (P.C.)
  Office	1 June 1533  [1]
  	Chief Larderer at the coronation of Anne Boleyn, Queen Consort
  Died	1535  [4]
  Will	4 June 1535  [4]
  Probate	24 Jan. 1535/36  [4]
  Buried	Birling, Kent, England   [4]
  	His heart was buried at Mereworth, Kent. [4]
  Person ID	I2312	British Peerage & Gentry
  Last Modified	14 March 2020

  
  

  Father	George (Neville), 4th Lord Bergavenny,   b. Raby Castle, Raby, Northumberland, England ,   d. 20 Sept. 1492
  Mother	Margaret Fenne,   d. 28 Sept. 1485
  Family ID	F1181	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Lady Joan Fitzalan
  Last Modified	14 March 2020
  Family ID	F1172	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 2	Margaret Brent,   d. After 1515
  Last Modified	14 March 2020
  Family ID	F1173	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 3	Lady Mary Stafford
  Married	circa June 1519  [4]
  Children	1. Henry (Neville), 6th Lord Bergavenny,   b. After 1527,   d. 10 Feb. 1586/87, Comfort, Birling, Kent, England  (Age ~ 59 years)
  Last Modified	14 March 2020
  Family ID	F1171	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 4	Mary Brooke,   d. After 1535
  Last Modified	14 March 2020
  Family ID	F1175	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Heraldry

  Arms of Neville (Barons Bergavenny) quartering Warenne, De Clare, Despenser, and Beauchamp [George (Neville), 5th Lord Bergavenny, and Henry (Neville), 6th Lord Bergavenny] Quarterly: 1st, Gules on a saltire Argent a rose of the field barbed and seeded proper (NEVILLE, Lord Bergavenny); 2nd, chequy Or and Azure (WARENNE); 3rd, quarterly, 1st and 4th, Or three chevrons Gules (DE CLARE), and, 2nd and 3rd, quarterly Argent and Gules in the second and third quarters a fret Or over all a bend Sable (DESPENSER, Earl of Gloucester); 4th, Gules on a fess between six crosses crosslet Or a crescent Sable (BEAUCHAMP, Earl of Worcester). Sources: The stall-plate of George, 5th Lord Bergavenny, K.G., at St. George's Chapel, Windsor, (North Side, Stall 15) as recorded in Edmund H. Fellowes, The Knights of the Garter 1348-1939, With a complete list of the Stall-Plates in St. George's Chapel (London: S.P.C.K.), page 45; Burke's General Armory (London: Harrison, 1884), pages 62, 281, 727, 1077; Seal of Richard (Beauchamp), Earl of Worcester, affixed to Cardiff Inspeximus 20 April 1421, published in G. T. Clark (1910), Cartae et Alia Munimenta Quae ad Dominium de Glamorgancia Pertinent, volume 4 (Cardiff, 1910), Charters DCCCCLII–MCXCIV, pages 1486–88, "Charter no. MCXVI." Note: George Lord Bergavenny quartered the arms of Warenne, but not the arms of Fitzalan through whom he claimed the heraldic inheritance. His great-great-grandmother, Lady Joan Fitzalan, was eventually an heraldic heiress, on the death of her brother, the 12th Earl of Arundel. The rules of heraldry, as understood today, do not usually allow an earlier generation to be quartered while omitting the arms of the family through whom the former arms are claimed. Some quarterings of this period were evidently "cherry-picked" for certain reasons. In this case, Lord Bergavenny had inherited a half-share of the rape and honour of Lewes, which had descended to the Fitzalans as heirs general of the Warenne Earls of Surrey. His grandmother, Elizabeth Lady Bergavenny, had inherited the manors of Ditchling, Rodmell, Patcham, Rottingdean, Northease, and the vill of Iford, as well as several knights' fees. (See https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/sussex/vol7/pp1-7)

  
  

• Notes

  He served in the wars against France, and was in the battle of Blackheath, 17 June 1497, against the Cornish rebels. [1] Sir Roger Wilbraham, temp. Elizabeth, relates a smart retort, made apparently by this Lord, to Henry VIII. "The L. of Burgaveny had morgaged that house; the King having an ynkling thereof at his meeting with him said 'God morow my L. of Burgaveny without Burgaveny;' the Lord more boldly than discreetly said to the King 'God morow my liege Lord, King of France without France.' This tale is not only amusing, but has a practical bearing; for if Abergavenny were a Barony by tenure, and if the fond "conceipt that the Castle and Lordship of A. should draw the stile and dignity" were true, then a mortgage, which transfers the legal ownership, would have also transferred the peerage; but the Lords having no notice of the transfer would have continued to summon Mr. Nevill, and by so doing would (according to modern peerage law) have conferred a new peerage on him of the same date as the summons, while as soon as the mortgagee had foreclosed on Abergavenny and taken possession, they could not refuse him his writ of summons to the ancient Barony. It is clear that such a process might recur, and that by now we might have a collection of Lords Abergavenny of various dates, which, as Euclid says, is absurd. [1] To him, 18 December 1512, Henry VIII granted the castle and lands of Abergavenny, &c., which, in 1389, had been inherited by William Beauchamp, Lord Bergavenny (1392), whose representative he was through his grandmother. His vast estates, derived chiefly from the Beauchamp family, he entailed on himself and the heirs male of his body, with remainder to his brothers Thomas and Edward respectively in like manner, and this entail, made by his will, being confirmed by Act of Parliament (31 January (1555/56) 2 and 3 Philip and Mary), preserved them intact to the succeeding Lords. [5]

  
  

• Sources

  [S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume I, page 31. [S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume I, page 32. [S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume I, pages 31–32. [S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume I, page 33. [S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume I, pages 32–33.