George Nevill, 5th Baron Bergavenny
George Nevill, 5th Baron Bergavenny KG (c.
1469 – September,
1535) held the office of
Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports.
He was born in
Abergavenny,
Monmouthshire,
Wales, the son of
George Nevill, 4th Baron Bergavenny and Margaret Fenne. He was an elder brother of Sir
Edward Nevill who was executed in
1540 on order of
King Henry VIII, charged with "devising to maintain, promote, and advance one
Reginald Pole, late Dean of Exeter, enemy of the King, beyond the sea, and to deprive the King". (Reginald Pole was a Catholic exile and seems to have been a cousin of Nevill's). They had two sisters, Jane and Elizabeth. Jane herself was executed in 1539 along with her husband
Henry Pole, 1st Baron Montagu, as he was the elder brother of Reginald Pole.
The mother of George and Edward Neville was Margaret Fenne, who was born in about
1444 at Sculton Burdeleys in
Norfolk,
England. She was the second of the three wives of the 4th Lord Bergavenny, and is recorded as having died on
September 28,
1485.
Sir George Neville was buried before
January 24,
1536 in Birling, Kent, England.
Lord Bergavenny is thought to have been married four times, to: Lady Mary Brooke of
Cobham; Mary Lady Stafford; Joan FitzAlan and Margaret Brent.
