John Nevill, 3rd Baron Latymer

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John Nevill, 3rd Baron Latymer (also Neville , born November 17, 1493 , † March 2, 1543 in London ) was an English nobleman and politician.

Life

He was the eldest son of Richard Nevill, 2nd Baron Latymer and Anne Stafford, daughter of Sir Humphrey Stafford. About his great-great-grandmother, Joan Beaufort , granddaughter of King Edward III. , he was distantly related to the English royal family.

He became a member of the Gentlemen Pensioners , King Henry VIII's bodyguard , accompanied him on his campaign to France in 1513, took part in the Battle of Guinegate and was made a Knight Bachelor after the conquest of Tournai . In 1529 he was elected Knight of the Shire for Yorkshire in the English House of Commons . When his father died in 1530, he inherited his title of nobility as Baron Latymer and his possessions, especially Snape Castle in North Yorkshire and Wyhe in Worcestershire . As Baron Latymer, he became a member of the House of Lords and resigned from the House of Commons.

He was a conservative man and a strict Catholic . He continued to follow the old faith when Henry VIII broke away from Rome and made himself head of the Church of England . As a result, Latymer came into a conflict of interest between his loyalty to the king and his religious beliefs. Allegedly more or less forced by Robert Aske , the leader of the still Catholic north of England, he joined the rebellion of the north against the king's church policy and took part in the so-called Pilgrimage of Grace . After the rebellion was put down, he was captured by the royal family and charged with high treason . He defended himself by having been forced to participate in the uprising, and in November 1536, as one of the rebel negotiators, he had campaigned for a compromise between the parties with the royal generals. While almost all of the surviving rebels were executed, Latymers managed to be pardoned by the king, thanks in part to the intercession of his third wife's relatives. He did not take part in the Francis Bigod uprising in 1537.

In 1537 he sold his town seat Latimer House in London and in 1538 two properties in Buckinghamshire and bought from the proceeds Nun Monkton in the Borough of Harrogate and other estates in Yorkshire. After an open war against Scotland broke out in 1541 , he took part in the fight against Scottish raids on English territory and acted in the summer of 1542 as an advisor to the English Commander-in-Chief in the border area Thomas Manners, 1st Earl of Rutland . The fighting culminated in November 1542 with the Battle of Solway Moss .

When he had traveled to London for a meeting of the House of Lords in 1543, he died at the age of 49 and was buried in St Paul's Cathedral .

Marriages and offspring

He was married three times. In his first marriage he married Dorothea de Vere († 1527) at the latest in 1520, daughter of Sir George de Vere († 1503), sister of John de Vere, 14th Earl of Oxford . With her he had at least two children:

His second marriage was in 1528, Elizabeth Musgrave, daughter of Sir Edward Musgrave. The marriage remained childless.

In his third marriage in 1533 he married Catherine Parr (1512-1548), widow of Sir Edward Burgh, daughter of Sir Thomas Parr of Kendal. The marriage also remained childless. After Nevill's death, she married in 1543 as the sixth and last wife of King Henry VIII.

literature

  • William Arthur Jobson Archbold:  Neville, John, third Baron Latimer . In: Sidney Lee (Ed.): Dictionary of National Biography . Volume 40:  Myllar - Nicholls. , MacMillan & Co, Smith, Elder & Co., New York City / London 1894, p. 269 (English).
  • LM Kirk, Alan Davidson: Neville, Sir John I (1493-1543), of Snape, Yorks. In: ST Bindoff (Ed.): The History of Parliament. The House of Commons 1509-1558. Secker & Warburg, London 1982 ( online edition ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Dictionary of National Biography , Volume 40, p. 269.
predecessor Office successor
Richard Nevill Baron Latymer
1530-1543 		John Nevill
personal data
SURNAME Nevill, John, 3rd Baron Latymer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Neville, John, 3rd Baron Latymer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English nobleman and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 17, 1493
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1543
Place of death London