[2] He was the 7th son[3] of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, and Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford).
[4] His eldest son Richard was one of the hostages given to the French when the English surrendered the city of Rouen in that year.
In 1454, he was appointed to the Privy Council assembled by the Duke of York as Lord Protector, along with his more prominent Neville kinsmen.
He was a commissioner of array in Kent in 1461, and was a captain in Edward IV's army in the North the following year.
He was again a commissioner of array in 1470, remaining loyal to Edward IV, unlike his nephew, the Earl of Warwick[4]