Henry Neville | |
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Baron Bergavenny | |
Spouse(s) | Lady Frances Manners Elizabeth Darrell |
Issue
Mary Neville, Baroness Le Despenser
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Noble family | House of Neville |
Father | George Nevill, 5th Baron Bergavenny |
Mother | Lady Mary Stafford |
Born | between 1527 and 1535 |
Died | 10 February 1587 |
Henry Nevill, 6th and de jure 4th Baron Abergavenny K.B. (between 1527 and 1535 – 10 February 1587) was an English peer. He was the son of Sir George Nevill, 5th Baron Bergavenny, and Mary Stafford (daughter of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham). He succeeded to the barony upon the death of his father, George Nevill, 5th Baron Bergavenny.
Henry, sixth (sometimes fourth) Lord Abergavenny, had summons to parliament on 23 January 1552, to 15 October 1586. He was one of the peers that sat in judgment on Mary, Queen of Scots, at Fotheringay. He died at his seat called Comfort, near Birling, Kent, on 10 February 1587.
He married first, Frances, daughter of Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland; he married secondly, Elizabeth, daughter of Stephen Darell, of Spelmonden, Kent (she remarried to Sir William Sedley, of Southfleet, Kent, Knt. and Bart.); by his first wife, he had an only daughter Mary Neville who married Sir Thomas Fane.
During the Wyatt's rebellion of January–February 1554 Henry and Robert Southwell, the High Sheriff of Kent married to Henry's niece Margaret, led the loyalist forces against the rebels. According to D. M. Loades, "Sir Robert Southwell and Lord Abergavenny were almost the only significant gentlemen in the country whose loyalty was never in doubt"; "Southwell, Abergavenny and Cheney were the most active royalist leaders."