Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury

Richard Neville, jure uxoris 5th Earl of Salisbury, KG, PC ( * 1400 in Raby Castle ( Durham ), † December 31, 1460 ) was a leader of the Yorkists in the beginnings of the Wars of the Roses.

Life

Richard was the third son ( the tenth child) of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, and the first child of his second wife, Joan Beaufort. The possessions of the Neville were located primarily in Durham and Yorkshire, but the kings Richard II and Henry IV of England saw the family as a useful counterbalance to the power of Percies on the Scottish border, resulting in Ralph's 1397 title conferred and his appointment as Lord Warden of the Marches in 1403 founded. Ralph's marriage to Joan Beaufort can be seen as further evidence of appreciation, as it is considered granddaughter Edward III. the royal family was one.

Goods already been married Ralph's first wife advantageous for the local nobility, the children, the children of Joan Beaufort were married in significantly more important families. Three sisters got married by Richard English Dukes ( his youngest sister was the wife of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York), Richard himself married Alice Montacute, daughter and heiress of Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury.

The exact date of their marriage is not known, but it must have occurred prior to February 1421, as both took part as a married couple at the coronation of Queen Catherine. At the time of the wedding was not certain that they would inherit the earldom, as not only Earl Thomas was still alive, but he had married in 1424 his second wife Alice Chaucer. This marriage remained childless, so that Richard Neville and Alice ascended Mont with Thomas 's death in 1428 as the new Earl and Countess of Salisbury.

From this point on, Richard Neville was regularly named as Salisbury.

Family

With Alice Montague Richard Neville had ten children:

  • Cecily Neville (1424-1450), ∞ Henry de Beauchamp, 1st Duke of Warwick
  • Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick ( 1428-1471 )
  • John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu ( 1431-1471 )
  • George Neville (1432-1476), archbishop of York and Lord Chancellor
  • Joan Neville (1434-1462), ∞ William FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel (House FitzAlan )
  • Katherine Neville (1442-1503),
County Durham Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland Richard II of England Edward III of England George Neville (bishop) Marquess of Salisbury John Kemp
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