John Neville of Chevet 1488-1541

Paternal Family Tree: Fitzmaldred aka Neville

Before 1488 John Neville of Chevet was born to John Neville of Liversedge [aged 51] at Liversedge.

Before 22nd October 1502 [his father] John Neville of Liversedge [aged 66] died.

In or before 1507 Thomas Tempest of Bracewell [aged 73] and [his future wife] Elizabeth Bosvile [aged 21] were married. The difference in their ages was 52 years.

In or before August 1509 John Neville of Chevet [aged 21] and Elizabeth Bosvile [aged 24] were married.

Around 1510 [his son] Henry Neville of Chevet was born to John Neville of Chevet [aged 22] and [his wife] Elizabeth Bosvile [aged 25]. He married 15th January 1533 Dorothy Dawnay and had issue.

Around 1515 [his daughter] Mary Neville was born to John Neville of Chevet [aged 27] and [his wife] Elizabeth Bosvile [aged 30]. She married 17th January 1530 Gervase Clifton and had issue.

Around 1529 [his wife] Elizabeth Bosvile [aged 44] died.

On 17th January 1530 [his son-in-law] Gervase Clifton [aged 13] and [his daughter] Mary Neville [aged 15] were married.

On 15th January 1533 [his son] Henry Neville of Chevet [aged 23] and [his daughter-in-law] Dorothy Dawnay [aged 18] were married.

Chronicle of a Bourgeois of Valenciennes

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Chronicle of Edward Hall [1496-1548]. 17th May 1541. In the beginning of this yere, five priests in Yorkshire began a new rebellion, with the assent of one Leigh a gentleman, and nine temporal men, which were apprehended, and shortly after in diverse places put in execution, in so much that on the seventeenth day of May, the said Leigh and one Tattersall, and Thornton, were drawn through London to Tyburn [Map], and there were executed. And Sir John Neville [aged 53] knight was executed for the same at York.

27 May 1541 Execution of Margaret Pole

Wriothesley's Chronicle [1508-1562]. 27th May 1541. This yeare, the seaven-and-twentith daie of Maie, 1541^a, being Fridaie and the morrow after the Assention Daie, my Ladie of Poole [aged 67], Countesse of Salisburie^b, and mother to the Lord Montague, late putt to death for treason, was beheaded within the Tower of London upon the Greene called East Smithfid for treason^c against the Kinges Majestie. And the same daie were three persons more drawen from the Tower of London to Tiburne, one called Lee, a gentleman of the north countrey, which was hanged and quartered; and another called Tartarsall, a cloath man of that countrey; and one Thome, a yeoman of the same partes, was hanged and headed; which persons with their affinitie had pretended to have made a new conspiracie or insurrection in the north countrey in Lent last past, and were brought up to London by Sir Richard Gresshame, knight and alderman of London; and tenne persons more of their affinitie were hanged, drawen, and quartered in Yorke for the same treason; and one Sir John Nevill [aged 53], knight, was sent from the Tower of London to Yorke to suffer execution their for treason, which was of their councell.

Note a. Nearly two years after the passing of the act of attainder.

Note b. Margaret Plantagenet, the nearest relation to the King in blood, was daughter, and eventually sole heir, of George Duke of Clarence, brother of Edward IV. She was created Countess of Salisbury in her own right, 14th October, 1513.

Note c. For a supposed treasonable correspondence with her sons, Cardinal Reginald Pole and Lord Montacute.

On 15th June 1541 John Neville of Chevet [aged 53] was executed for having failed to report a conspiracy.

1541 Wakefield aka Yorkshire Conspiracy

Letters and Papers Foreign and Domestic Henry VIII 1541. At the same time in the North, Sir John Neville [deceased] and about 60 more, among whom at least 25 were ecclesiastics, were executed for the conspiracy of which Chapuys wrote some time ago. Has just heard of the arrival of a Polish gentleman with eight or ten servants. Will endeavour to discover who he is and what he comes for. London, 2 July 1541. Original at Vienna.