Edward Neville, 3rd Baron Bergavenny

Edward Nevill, de facto 3rd (de jure 1st) Baron Bergavenny (bef. 1414 – 18 October 1476) was an English peer.

He was the son of Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland and Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland, daughter of John of Gaunt and Katherine de Roet (better known as Katherine Swynford). Nevill was knighted sometime after 1426.

In 1436 he married Lady Elizabeth de Beauchamp (d. 18 June 1448), daughter of Richard de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Worcester and the former Lady Isabel le Despenser, who later succeeded as de jure 3rd Baroness Bergavenny, and they had the following children:

• Richard Nevill (bef. 1439 – bef. 1476)
• Sir George Nevill (c.1440–1492), later 4th and 2nd Baron Bergavenny
• Alice Nevill, married Sir Thomas Grey
• Catherine Nevill (b.c.1444), married John Iwardby

Bergavenny, as he was now styled, was a justice of the peace for Durham in 1438.

Shortly after his first wife's death, in the summer or fall of 1448, he married Katherine Howard, daughter of Robert Howard and sister of the 1st Duke of Norfolk, and they had the following children:

• Catherine Nevill (b. c. 1452/bef. 1473), married Robert Tanfield (b. 1461), son of Robert Tanfield and Elizabeth Brooke, daughter of Edward Brooke, 6th Baron Cobham and Elizabeth Touchet, born c. 1433, and had issue
• Margaret Nevill (b.bef. 1476-1506), married John Brooke, 7th Baron Cobham
• Anne Nevill......
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