(1) Il est marié avec Alice de Montagu.
Ils se sont mariés avant le février 1420/1421 à Salisbury, Wiltshire, England.Les sources 1, 2
Enfant(s):
Lord Chamberlain of England
Supporter of Henry VI
Executed (beheaded) at Pontefract Castle on 12-31-1461, the day after thebattle 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 ofWestmoreland, 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 earldomrevived in his person, by letters patent, dated 4 May, 1442, withremainder to the said Alice, and with £20 annual rent out of the issuesof the co. of Wilts. Her ladyship inherited the old Baronies of Montacuteand Monthermer, which had been so long in her family. This noblemanobtained from King Henry VI numerous substantial grants and some of thehighest and most important trusts; amongst others he was appointed wardenof the marches towards Scotland, and governor of Carlisle, and had largeterritorial gifts from the crown, with a grant of £9,083 6s. 8d. perannum out of the customs for thirty years, yet he was one of the earliestto espouse the cause of the house of York and one of the most determinedin maintaining it. His lordship fought and won, in conjunction with theDuke of York, the first pitched battle, that of St. Albans, between thecontending Roses, and he followed up his success by defeating the LordAudley at Blore Heath in 1458, and again in 1460, at Northampton, when hewas constituted by the Yorkists Lord Great Chamberlain of England. Thefortune of war changing, however, in the very next encounter, the battleof Wakefield, the Duke of York fell, the Yorkists were routed,Salisbury's son, Sir Thomas Nevill, slain, and the earl himself madeprisoner, when his head was immediately cut off and fixed upon a poleover one of the gates of the city of York. His lordship had issue by theheiress 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 ExtinctPeerages, Burke's Peerage, Ltd., London, England, 1883, p. 395, Nevill,Earls of Salisbury, Earl of Warwick, Baron Montacute, Baron Monthermer]
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