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Biography of Elizabeth Neville 1550-1630

Paternal Family Tree: Fitzmaldred aka Neville

Maternal Family Tree: Aoife NI Diarmait Macmurrough Countess Pembroke and Buckingham 1145-1188

Before 1545 [her father] John Neville 4th Baron Latimer of Snape (age 24) and [her mother] Lucy Somerset Baroness Latimer Snape (age 20) were married. She by marriage Baroness Latimer of Snape. She the daughter of [her grandfather] Henry Somerset 2nd Earl of Worcester (age 48) and [her grandmother] Elizabeth Browne Countess of Worcester (age 42). They were fourth cousins. He a great x 5 grandson of King Edward III of England. She a great x 5 granddaughter of King Edward III of England.

Around 1550 Elizabeth Neville was born to John Neville 4th Baron Latimer of Snape (age 30) and Lucy Somerset Baroness Latimer Snape (age 26).

In or before 1568 John Danvers (age 27) and Elizabeth Neville (age 17) were married. They were half fourth cousin once removed.

Around 1568 [her son] Charles Danvers was born to [her husband] John Danvers (age 28) and Elizabeth Neville (age 18).

In 1572 [her daughter] Lucy Danvers was born to [her husband] John Danvers (age 32) and Elizabeth Neville (age 22).

On 28th June 1573 [her son] Henry Danvers 1st Earl Danby was born to [her husband] John Danvers (age 33) and Elizabeth Neville (age 23) at Dauntsey, Wiltshire.

On 22nd April 1577 [her father] John Neville 4th Baron Latimer of Snape (age 57) died. He was buried at St Michaels Church, Well. Baron Latimer of Snape abeyant between daughters [her sister] Katherine Neville Countess Northumberland (age 32), [her sister] Dorothy Neville Countess Exeter (age 29), [her sister] Lucy Neville (age 28) and Elizabeth Neville (age 27).

Around 1580 [her daughter] Eleanor Danvers was born to [her husband] John Danvers (age 40) and Elizabeth Neville (age 30).

Before 1583 [her future husband] Edmund Carey (age 24) and Mary Crocker were married.

On 23rd February 1583 [her mother] Lucy Somerset Baroness Latimer Snape (age 59) died.

On 28th June 1588 [her son] John Danvers was born to [her husband] John Danvers (age 48) and Elizabeth Neville (age 38).

In 1590 [her daughter] Dorothy Danvers was born to [her husband] John Danvers (age 50) and Elizabeth Neville (age 40).

Before 1593 [her son-in-law] Henry Bayntun (age 19) and [her daughter] Lucy Danvers (age 20) were married.

On 19th December 1594 [her husband] John Danvers (age 54) died said to have been of a broken heart following the disgrace of his sons [her son] Charles Danvers (age 26) and [her son] Henry Danvers 1st Earl Danby (age 21).

In 1598 Edmund Carey (age 40) and Elizabeth Neville (age 48) were married. The marriage was, perhaps, a means of procuring a pardon for her two sons who had previously shot and killed a neighbour, and fled abroad. A payment was made to the bereaved family and the sons were allowed to return. They were fourth cousins.

Essex Rebellion

On 18th March 1601 [her son] Charles Danvers (age 33) and Christopher Blount (age 36) was beheaded for their part in the Essex Rebellion.

Brief Lives: Charles Danvers 1568 1601. [711][her son] Sir Charles Danvers (age 33) was beheaded on Tower-hill [Map] with Robert, earle of Essex (age 35), February the 6th, 1600[712]. I find in the register of the Tower chapell [Map] only the sepulture of Robert, earl of Essex, that yeare; wherfore I am induced to beleeve that his body was carryed to Dantesey[CX] in Wilts to lye with his ancestors. Vide Stowe's Chronicle, where is a full account of his and the earle's deportment at their death on the scaffold.

With all their faylings, Wilts cannot shew two such[713] brothers.

His familiar acquaintance were...[714], earl of Oxon (age 50); Sir Francis (age 40) and Sir Horace Vere (age 36); Sir Walter Ralegh (age 47), etc.-the heroes of those times.

Quaere my lady viscountesse Purbec and also the lord Norris for an account of the behaviour and advice of Sir Charles Danvers in the businesse of the earl of Essex, which advice had the earle followed he had saved his life.

[715]Of Sir Charles Danvers, from my lady viscountesse Purbec:-Sir Charles Danvers advised the earle of Essex, either to treat with the queen-hostages..., whom Sir Ferdinando Gorges (age 36) did let goe; or to make his way through the gate at Essex house, and then to hast away to Highgate, and so to Northumberland (the earl of Northumberland maried his mother's (age 51) [her sister] sister), and from thence to the king of Scots, and there they might make their peace; if not, the queen was old and could not live long. But the earle followed not his advice, and so they both lost their heads on Tower-hill.

Note.

Note 711. MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 25v.

Note 712. i.e. 1600/1.

Note 713. Dupl. with 'shew the like two brothers,' scil. as Sir Charles Danvers and his brother Henry, earl of Danby.

Note 714. Edward Vere, seventeenth earl of Oxford.

[CX] In MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 46, Aubrey writes, in reference to burials at Dantesey, 'quaere, if Sir Charles Danvers that was beheaded?-He was buryed in the Tower chapell.' Aubrey's description of the burial-place of the Danvers family (MS. Aubr. 3, fol. 46), with the inscriptions, is printed in J. E. Jackson's Aubrey's Wiltshire Collections, pp. 223-225; the pedigree of Danvers is there given at p. 216.

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In September 1601 [her daughter] Eleanor Danvers (age 21) died.

On 25th February 1603 [her sister-in-law] Katherine Carey Countess Nottingham (age 53) died at Arundel House [Map]. She was buried in Chelsea Old Church on 25th April 1603.

Around 1607 William Uvedale (age 26) and [her step-daughter] Anne Carey (age 15) were married.

In March 1609 [her son] John Danvers (age 20) and [her daughter-in-law] Magdalen Newport were married. They were fifth cousin once removed.

In 1620 Elizabeth Neville (age 70) commissioned Nicholas Stone (age 33), ten years before her death, at a cost of £220, to sculpt her monument for her subsequent burial at St Michael's Church, Stowe Nine Churches [Map].

In 1621 [her daughter] Lucy Danvers (age 49) died.

In 1626 [her brother-in-law] Robert Carey 1st Earl Monmouth (age 66) was created 1st Earl Monmouth. Elizabeth Trevannion Countess Monmouth (age 63) by marriage Countess Monmouth.

In 1627 [her step-daughter] Anne Carey (age 35) died.

On 10th July 1628 [her son] John Danvers (age 40) and [her daughter-in-law] Elizabeth Dauntsey were married.

In 1630 Elizabeth Neville (age 80) died.

After 1630 [her former husband] Edmund Carey (age 72) and Judith Humphrey were married.

In 1637 [her former husband] Edmund Carey (age 79) died.

[her daughter] Anne Danvers was born to John Danvers and Elizabeth Neville.

[her daughter] Katherine Danvers was born to John Danvers and Elizabeth Neville.

[her daughter] Elizabeth Danvers was born to John Danvers and Elizabeth Neville.

[her daughter] Mary Danvers was born to John Danvers and Elizabeth Neville.

Brief Lives: Elizabeth Danvers. [716]His[CY] mother, an Italian, prodigious parts for a woman. I have heard my father's mother say that she had Chaucer at her fingers' ends.

A great politician; great witt and spirit, but revengefull[717].

Knew how to manage her estate as well as any man; understood jewells as well as any jeweller.

Very beautifull, but only short-sighted. To obtain pardons for her sonnes[718] she maryed Sir Edmund Carey, cosen-german to queen Elizabeth, but kept him to hard meate.

Smyth of Smythcotes-Naboth's vineyard-digitus Dei[CZ].

The arcanum-'traditio lampadis' in the family of Latimer[DA] of poysoning king Henry 8-from my lady Purbec.

Notes.

Note 716. MS. Aubr. 8, fol. 25.

Note 717. Aubrey, in the margin, notes 'Anne Bulleyn.'

Note 718. For the murder of Henry Long.

[CY]. i.e. [her son] Henry, earl of Danby's. She was Elizabeth, daughter of [her father] John Nevill, the last lord Latimer. 'An Italian' may mean that she knew that language, among her other accomplishments. I can make nothing of a note added by Aubrey here, which seems to read '... Cowley, crop-ear'd.'

[CZ]. I do not know to what circumstance, in the history of the Danvers family, Aubrey here applies 1 Kings xxi. 19.

[DA]. Catherine Parr, last consort of Henry VIII, was widow of [her grandfather] John, 3rd lord Latimer; and step-mother of John, 4th lord Latimer, the father of this Elizabeth Danvers, whose grand-daughter ('viscountess Purbeck') was Aubrey's informant.

Elizabeth Neville 1550-1630 appears on the following Descendants Family Trees:

Royal Ancestors of Elizabeth Neville 1550-1630

Kings Wessex: Great x 15 Grand Daughter of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England

Kings Gwynedd: Great x 13 Grand Daughter of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd

Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 18 Grand Daughter of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth

Kings Powys: Great x 14 Grand Daughter of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys

Kings England: Great x 6 Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Kings Scotland: Great x 14 Grand Daughter of King Duncan I of Scotland

Kings Franks: Great x 12 Grand Daughter of Louis VII King Franks

Kings France: Great x 8 Grand Daughter of Philip IV King France

Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 19 Grand Daughter of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine

Ancestors of Elizabeth Neville 1550-1630

Great x 4 Grandfather: Ralph Neville 1st Earl of Westmoreland 5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: George Neville 1st Baron Latimer of Snape Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Joan Beaufort Countess of Westmoreland Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Henry Neville 2 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Beauchamp 13th Earl Warwick 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Beauchamp Baroness Latimer 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Berkeley Countess Warwick 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 1 Grandfather: Richard Neville 2nd Baron Latimer of Snape 3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: William Bourchier 1st Count of Eu

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Bourchier 1st Baron Berners Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne of Gloucester Plantagenet Countess Eu and Stafford Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Joan Bourchier 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Margery Berners Baroness Berners

GrandFather: John Neville 3rd Baron Latimer 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Humphrey Stafford 10 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Humphrey Stafford 11 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Burdett

Great x 2 Grandfather: Humphrey Stafford 12 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Aylesbury

Great x 3 Grandmother: Eleanor Aylesbury

Great x 1 Grandmother: Anne Stafford Baroness Latimer 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Fray

Great x 2 Grandmother: Catherine Fray

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Danvers

Great x 3 Grandmother: Agnes Danvers Baroness Wenlock

Father: John Neville 4th Baron Latimer of Snape 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Aubrey de Vere 10th Earl of Oxford 5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard de Vere 11th Earl of Oxford 5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Alice Fitzwalter Countess of Oxford 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: John de Vere 12th Earl of Oxford 6 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Alice Sergeaux Countess Oxford

Great x 1 Grandfather: George de Vere 6 x Great Grand Son of King John of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Howard 3 x Great Grand Son of King John of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Howard 4 x Great Grand Son of King John of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Unknown

Great x 2 Grandmother: Elizabeth Howard Countess of Oxford 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Walton

Great x 3 Grandmother: Joan Walton

GrandMother: Dorothy de Vere 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Humphrey Stafford 9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Humphrey Stafford 10 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Alice Greville

Great x 2 Grandfather: William Stafford 11 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 1 Grandmother: Margaret Stafford 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Chidiock 5th Baron Fitzpayn

Great x 3 Grandfather: John Chideock 6th Baron Fitzpayn 9 x Great Grand Son of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor Fitzwarin 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry I "Beauclerc" England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Catherine Chideocke 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Ralph Lumley 1st Baron Lumley 6 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Catherine Lumley 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor Neville Baroness Lumley 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Elizabeth Neville 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Beaufort 1st Marquess Somerset and Dorset Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Edmund Beaufort 1st or 2nd Duke of Somerset Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Holland Duchess Clarence 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Henry Beaufort 2nd or 3rd Duke of Somerset 2 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Beauchamp 13th Earl Warwick 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Eleanor Beauchamp Duchess Somerset 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Berkeley Countess Warwick 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 1 Grandfather: Charles Somerset 1st Earl of Worcester 3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Robert Hill of Shilston

Great x 3 Grandfather: Robert Hill of Shilston

Great x 2 Grandmother: Joan Hill

Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Champernoun

Great x 3 Grandmother: Margaret Champernoun

Great x 4 Grandmother: Katherine Daubeny

GrandFather: Henry Somerset 2nd Earl of Worcester 4 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: William Herbert 1st Earl Pembroke

Great x 4 Grandmother: Gwladys ferch Dafydd Gam "Star of Abergavenny" Brecon

Great x 2 Grandfather: William Herbert 2nd Earl Pembroke 1st Earl Huntingdon 9 x Great Grand Son of King John of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Walter Devereux 7 x Great Grand Son of King John of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Anne Devereux 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Merbury

Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Herbert 3rd Baroness Herbert Raglan 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Richard Woodville

Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Woodville 1st Earl Rivers

Great x 4 Grandmother: Joan Bittelsgate

Great x 2 Grandmother: Mary Woodville Countess Pembroke and Huntingdon 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Peter Luxemburg I Count Saint Pol 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Jacquetta of Luxemburg Duchess Bedford 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Margherita Baux 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King John of England

Mother: Lucy Somerset Baroness Latimer Snape 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: Thomas Browne

Great x 1 Grandfather: Anthony Browne 6 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Fitzalan Baron Maltravers 2nd Baron Arundel 3 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Thomas Fitzalan 4 x Great Grand Son of King Henry III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Despencer Baroness Zouche, Harringworth, Maltravers and Arundel 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 2 Grandmother: Eleanor Fitzalan 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Henry III of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Joan Moyns

GrandMother: Elizabeth Browne Countess of Worcester 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Ralph Neville 1st Earl of Westmoreland 5 x Great Grand Son of King Henry "Curtmantle" II of England

Great x 3 Grandfather: Richard Neville Earl Salisbury Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Joan Beaufort Countess of Westmoreland Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 2 Grandfather: John Neville 1st Marquess Montagu 2 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Montagu 1st Count Perche 4th Earl Salisbury 3 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England

Great x 3 Grandmother: Alice Montagu 5th Countess of Salisbury 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor Holland 2 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 1 Grandmother: Lucy Neville 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Ingaldsthorpe

Great x 3 Grandfather: Edmund Ingaldsthorpe

Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Pole

Great x 2 Grandmother: Isabel Ingaldsthorpe 5 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandfather: John Tiptoft 1st Baron Tiptoft

Great x 3 Grandmother: Joan Tiptoft 4 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England

Great x 4 Grandmother: Joyce Charleton Baroness Tiptoft 3 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England