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Richard Neville, 2nd Baron Latimer

Richard Neville, 2nd Baron Latimer
Snape Castle.jpg
Snape Castle, seat of the Barons Latimer
Spouse(s) Anne Stafford
Margaret (surname unknown)
Issue
John Neville, 3rd Baron Latimer
William Neville
Sir Thomas Neville
Marmaduke Neville
George Neville, Archdeacon of Carlisle
Christopher Neville
Margaret Neville
Dorothy Neville
Elizabeth Neville
Katherine Neville
Susan Neville
Joan Neville
Noble family House of Neville
Father Sir Henry Neville
Mother Joan Bourchier
Born c.1468
Died c. 28 December 1530
Snape Castle
Buried Well, North Yorkshire

Richard Neville, 2nd Baron Latimer KB (c.1468 – c. 28 December 1530) of Snape, North Yorkshire, was an English soldier and peer. He fought at the battles of Stoke and Flodden.

Richard Neville was the eldest son of Sir Henry Neville, who was killed on 26 July 1469 at the Battle of Edgecote Moor, and Joan Bourchier (d. 7 October 1470), daughter of John Bourchier, 1st Baron Berners, by Margery, daughter and heiress of Richard Berners, esquire. He had a brother, Thomas Neville, and a sister, Joan Neville, wife of Sir James Radcliffe.

Neville's maternal grandfather, John Bourchier, 1st Baron Berners, was the fourth son of William Bourchier, 1st Count of Eu in Normandy, and his wife Anne of Gloucester, daughter of , youngest son of King Edward III. By her second husband, Edmund Stafford, 5th Earl of Stafford, Anne of Gloucester was the mother of Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham.

On his father's side, Richard Neville was the grandson of George Neville, 1st Baron Latimer (d. 30 or 31 December 1469), and Elizabeth Beauchamp, the daughter of Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick.

When he was only a year old, Richard Neville inherited the barony together with lands in 24 counties, including Snape Castle in Richmondshire, at the death of his grandfather, George Neville, 1st Baron Latimer, on 30 or 31 December 1469. His wardship and marriage were purchased for £1000 in May 1470 by his great uncle, Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury, while his lands remained in the hands of the crown. He was made a Knight of the Bath on 17 January 1478.


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