Edward Neville, 3rd Baron Bergavenny

[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]

Arms of Edward Nevill, Baron Bergavenny: Gules, a saltire argent charged with a rose of the field (barbed and seeded proper) . [ 1 ] These are his paternal arms of Neville differenced by a rose, the symbol of a 7th son. These arms are borne today by his descendants the Neville Marquesses of Abergavenny