Thomas Neville (died 1460)

Sir Thomas Neville, (c. 1429-1460) was the second son of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, a major magnate in the north of England during the fifteenth-century Wars of the Roses.

Neville's first mention in contemporary official records is in 1448 when he was appointed steward of the Bishopric of Durham by his uncle, Robert, the Bishop, receining £20 per annum ro the diocese's revenues. He became Sheriff of Glamorgan, on 24 March 1450, in which capacity he witnessed a charter of his brother, Warwick the 'Kingmaker', 12 March the next year, during the latter's dispute over the Despenser inheritance. Warwick also appointed Thomas to assist in the management of his Warwickshire estates, for which he received an annuity. Thomas Neville was knighted by the king (Henry VI) alongside the king's two half-brothers, Edmund and Jasper Tudor on 5 January 1453 in the Tower of London, an occasion that Griffiths has called 'an attempt to retain a loyalty [of the Nevilles] that had recently been strained.'

Thomas Neville was licensed by the king on 1 May 1453 to marry Maud Stanhope, the widow of Robert, Lord Willoughby and as such a wealthy heiress.Ralph Griffiths has suggested that the announcement of Neville's marriage was the immediate cause of the feud with the Percies. Not only, says Griffiths, was any further Neville aggrandisement anathema to the Percys, but the new Cromwell connection gave the Nevilles access to the ex-Percy manors of Wressle and Burwell, which doubtless they still hoped to reclaim.

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