George Neville

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George Neville (* around 1433; † June 8, 1476 ) was Lord Chancellor of England and Archbishop of York .

Life

Neville was the youngest son of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury and the brother of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick . He was at Balliol College of Oxford University trained. During the Wars of the Roses he became Bishop of Exeter in 1456 , after the victories of the House of York Lord Chancellor of England in 1460 and Archbishop of York in 1465. From then on, his fate followed a similar course to that of his brother, and when he died in 1471 he was imprisoned for three years. Neville was one of the earliest proponents of the study of the Greek language among the English clergy .

literature

  • Neville, George . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 19 : Mun - Oddfellows . London 1911, p. 458 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
  • Frederick Maurice Powicke, Edmund Boleslav Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. Royal Historical Society, London 1961.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Powicke, Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. London 1961, p. 226.
  2. ^ Powicke, Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. London 1961, p. 85.
  3. ^ Powicke, Fryde: Handbook of British Chronology. London 1961, p. 265.
predecessor Office successor
John Hales Bishop of Exeter
1456–1465 		John Booth
Robert Stillington Lord Chancellor of England
1460–1467 		Robert Stillington
William Booth Archbishop of York
1465–1476 		Lawrence Booth
William Waynflete Lord Chancellor of England
1470–1471 		Robert Stillington
personal data
SURNAME Neville, George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lord Chancellor of England, Archbishop of York
DATE OF BIRTH around 1433
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1476