John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu

John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu
Quartered arms of Sir John Neville, Marquess of Montagu
Spouse(s)	Isabel Ingoldesthorpe
Issue George Neville, Duke of Bedford Anne Neville Elizabeth Neville Margaret Neville Lucy Neville Isabel Neville
Noble family	Neville
Father	Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury
Mother	Alice Montagu, Countess of Salisbury
Born	c.1431
Died	14 April 1471 Battle of Barnet

John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu KG (c.1431 – 14 April 1471) was, until his final years, a Yorkist leader in the Wars of the Roses, brother of Warwick the Kingmaker and perhaps best known for eliminating Lancastrian resistance in the north of England in the first three years of the reign of King Edward IV.

Montagu was the third son of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury and Alice Montacute, 5th Countess of Salisbury, and a younger brother of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, "the Kingmaker".

He was knighted by King Henry VI at Greenwich on 5 January 1453, alongside Edmund and Jasper Tudor, his brother Thomas Neville, William Herbert, Roger Lewknor, and William Catesby. He was from the branch of the Neville family based at Middleham Castle in Yorkshire, rather than that of Westmorland. It has been claimed that he, as a 'landless younger son' caused their long-running feud with the Lancastrian Percy family of Northumberland. He was certainly involved in the confrontation between the two families and their armed retinues which took place between Heworth and Stamford Bridge on 24 August 1453, following which 'much slaughter of their followers was alleged' by both sides.