John Neville, Baron Neville
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The Battle of Townton, as depicted by Richard Caton Woodville
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| Spouse(s) | Anne Holland |
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| Noble family | Neville |
| Father | Sir John Neville |
| Mother | Elizabeth Holland |
| Born | c.1410 |
| Died | Slain at the Battle of Towton, 29 March 1461 |
John Neville, Baron Neville (c.1410 – 29 March 1461) was an English nobleman and soldier, slain at the Battle of Towton. His son succeeded to the earldom of Westmorland.
John Neville was born about 1410, the second son of Sir John Neville (d.1420), eldest son of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland from his first marriage to Margaret de Stafford, and Elizabeth Holland (c.1388 –3 or 4 January 1423), fifth daughter of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent and Alice FitzAlan (d.17 March 1416).
He had two brothers, Ralph Neville, 2nd Earl of Westmorland, and Sir Thomas Neville (died c. 1461) of Brancepeth, Durham, and one sister, Margaret, who married Sir William Lucy of Woodcroft, Bedfordshire.
Sometime before 5 February 1442 Neville married Anne Holland, widow of his nephew, Sir John Neville (d. shortly before 16 March 1450), the son of Ralph Neville, 2nd Earl of Westmorland and his first wife, Lady Elizabeth Percy. Anne Holland was the daughter of John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter by his first wife, Anne Stafford, the daughter of Edmund Stafford, 5th Earl of Stafford and the widow of Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March . John Neville and Anne Holland had one son, Ralph Neville, 3rd Earl of Westmorland.
According to Cokayne, John Neville was summoned to Parliament 20 November 1459 and 30 July 1460 by special writs directed to Iohanni Nevill, Domino de Nevill, whereby he is held to have become Lord Neville. In another writ of 20 January 1461, attested only by the Council, he is referred to as 'Sir John Neville of Neville'. He was absent from the Parliament at which Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York, proclaimed himself King.
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