Ralph Neville, 2nd Earl of Westmorland

Ralph Neville, 2nd Earl of Westmorland
St. Brandon's Church, Brancepeth
Spouse(s)	Elizabeth Percy Margaret Cobham
Issue Sir John Neville Margaret Neville
Noble family	House of Neville
Father	Sir John Neville
Mother	Elizabeth Holland
Born	4 April 1406 Cockermouth, Cumberland
Died	3 November 1484
Buried	St. Brandon's Church, Brancepeth, Durham

Ralph Neville, 2nd Earl of Westmorland (4 April 1406 – 3 November 1484) was an English peer.

Ralph Neville, 2nd Earl of Westmorland, was born 4 April 1406 in Cockermouth, Cumberland, the eldest son of Sir John Neville (d.1420), and Elizabeth Holland (c. 1388 – 3 or 4 January 1423), the daughter of Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent, and Alice FitzAlan (d.17 March 1416).

He had two brothers, John Neville, Baron Neville (c.1410 –1461), who was killed at the Battle of Towton on 29 March 1461, and Sir Thomas Neville (died c. 1461) of Brancepeth, Durham, and one sister, Margaret, who married Sir William Lucy of Woodcroft, Bedfordshire.

When his father died shortly before 20 May 1420 while campaigning in France, Ralph Neville became heir apparent to his grandfather, Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland. He succeeded to the earldom in 1425, but spent much of the rest of his life attempting to recover his inheritance, which his grandfather, the 1st Earl, had settled on his second wife, Lady Joan Beaufort (d.13 November 1440), the legitimated daughter of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster and the children he had had by her, giving rise to the Neville–Neville feud.

In 1426, Westmorland had licence to enter his lands, and on 14 May of that year was knighted by King Henry VI. In the same year he married Elizabeth Percy, the daughter of Henry 'Hotspur' Percy, and widow of John Clifford, 7th Baron de Clifford. They had one son, Sir John Neville, who married his cousin Lady Anne Holland, the daughter of John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, and died without issue shortly before 16 March 1450.