Margaret Fenne, Baroness Abergavenny

• Margaret Fenne1,2,3,4,5,6
• F, #22276, b. 1444, d. 28 September 1485
• Father Hugh Fenne, Esq., Treasurer of the Household to King Henry VI, Escheator of Norfolk & Suffolk2,3,4,5,6 d. c 28 Jun 1476
• Margaret Fenne was born in 1444 at of Sculton Burdeleys, Norfolk, Braintree, Essex, England. She married Sir George Neville, Lord Abergavenny, son of Sir Edward Neville, 1st Baron Abergavenny and Elizabeth Beauchamp, circa 1466 at of Scoulton, Norfolk, England; They had 6 sons (Sir George, Lord Bergavenny; John; William; Sir Edward; Sir Thomas, Speaker of the House of Commons; & Sir Richard) and 1 daughter (Elizabeth, wife of Thomas Berkeley, Esq., & of Richard Covert, Esq.).2,3,4,5,6 Margaret Fenne died on 28 September 1485.2,3,5
• Family Sir George Neville, Lord Abergavenny b. c 1440, d. 20 Sep 1492
• Children
  • Elizabeth Neville+7,4,5,6 b. c 1467, d. a 1500
  • Sir George Neville, Lord Abergavenny, Constable of Dover Castle, Warden of the Cinque Ports+8,5 b. c 1469
  • Sir Edward Neville, Constable of Leeds Castle, Justice of the Peace for Kent+3,5 b. c 1471, d. 9 Jan 1539
• Citations
• 1.[S6876] Unknown author, Ancestry of HRH Prince Charles by Gerald Paget; Plantagenet Ancestry of 17th Century Colonists, by David Faris, p. 212; Wallop Family, p. 585; Stemmata Robertson, p. 241.
• 2.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 94.
• 3.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. I, p. 168-169.
• 4.[S16] Douglas Richardson, Magna Carta Ancestry, 2nd Edition, Vol. II, p. 175-176.
• 5.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. I, p. 322.
• 6.[S4] Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry, Vol. II, p. 594.
• 7.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 313.
• 8.[S5] Douglas Richardson, Plantagenet Ancestry, p. 94-95.
• From: http://our-royal-titled-noble-and-commoner-ancestors.com/p742.htm#i... ____________________
• George Neville, or Nevill, 4th and de jure 2nd Baron Bergavenny (c.1440 – 20 September 1492) was an English nobleman.
• George Neville was the son of Edward Neville, 3rd Baron Bergavenny and Elizabeth Beauchamp. He was knighted by Edward IV on 9 May 1471,[1] after fighting for the King at the Battle of Tewkesbury. He succeeded his father in 1476.
• Neville married firstly, before 1 May 1471, Margaret Fenne (d. 28 September 1485), the daughter and heiress of Hugh Fenne, Treasurer of the Household to King Henry VI, Escheator of Norfolk & Suffolk, by whom he had six sons and a daughter:[2][3]
  • George Neville, 5th Baron Bergavenny (c.1469–c.1535).[3]
  • John Neville.[4]
  • William Neville.[4]
  • Sir Edward Neville (1471–1538), who married, before 6 April 1529, Eleanor (née Windsor), widow of Ralph Scrope, 9th Baron Scrope (d. 17 September 1515), and daughter of Andrew Windsor, 1st Baron Windsor.[3] He was the ancestor of George Washington through his granddaughter Catherine.[5]
  • Sir Thomas Neville (c.1484–1542), Speaker of the House of Commons, who married firstly Katherine Dacre, and secondly Elizabeth Bryce.[6]
  • Sir Richard Neville[6] (bef. 1485 – c.1515).
  • Elizabeth Neville, who married firstly Thomas Berkeley, esquire, of Avon, Hampshire, and secondly Richard Covert, esquire, of Slaugham, Sussex.[6]
• He married secondly a wife named Elizabeth whose surname is unknown. She was the widow successively of Richard Naylor, Sir Robert Bassett, and John Stokker. There were no issue of his second marriage.[2][3]
• Bergavenny was a captain in the English forces at Calais in 1490, and died in 1492.[1]
• From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Nevill,_4th_Baron_Bergavenny _______________
• THE DAU. JANE NEVILLE WIFE OF SIR HENRY POLE IS LISTED IN OTHER REFERENCES AS THE DAU. OF HER SON SIR GEORGE NEVILLE & JOAN FITZALAN
• Margaret Fenne1
• F, #14230, d. 28 September 1485
• Last Edited=11 Apr 2008
• Margaret Fenne was the daughter of Sir Hugh Fenne.1 She married Sir George Neville, 2nd Lord Abergavenny, son of Sir Edward Neville, 1st Lord Abergavenny and Elizabeth Beauchamp, Lady Bergavenny, before 1469.2 She died on 28 September 1485.1
• From before 1469, her married name became Neville.2 As a result of her marriage, Margaret Fenne was styled as Lady Bergavenny on 18 October 1476.
• Children of Margaret Fenne and Sir George Neville, 2nd Lord Abergavenny
  • 1.Jane Neville+3 d. b 26 Oct 1538
  • 2.William Neville4
  • 3.Richard Neville3 d. a 1515
  • 4.Elizabeth Neville3
  • 5.Sir George Neville, 3rd Lord Abergavenny+1 b. c 1469, d. c 1535
  • 6.Sir Edward Neville+5 b. 1471, d. 8 Dec 1538
  • 7.Sir Thomas Neville+3 b. c 1480, d. 29 May 1542
• Citations
• 1.[S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 31. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
• 2.[S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume I, page 30.
• 3.[S8] Volume 1, page 18. See link for full details for this source. Hereinafter cited as. [S8]
• 4.[S8] See. [S8]
• 5.[S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume I, page 34.
• From: http://www.thepeerage.com/p1423.htm#i14230 ____________________
• THE DAU. JANE NEVILLE WIFE OF SIR HENRY POLE IS LISTED IN OTHER REFERENCES AS THE DAU. OF HER SON SIR GEORGE NEVILLE & JOAN FITZALAN
• George NEVILLE (2° B. Abergavenny)
• Born: 1440, Raby, Durham, England
• Died: 20 Sep 1492, Sussex, England
• Notes: He was invested as a Knight on 4 May 1471 at Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire, England, by Edward IV. He succeeded to the title of 2nd Lord Abergavenny on 18 Oct 1476. On 12 Jan 1476/7 he had livery of the lands of his parents, but he never had seizin of Abergavenny.
• Father: Edward NEVILLE (1° B. Abergavenny)
• Mother: Elizabeth BEAUCHAMP
• Married 1: Margaret FENNE (d. 28 Sep 1485) (dau. of Sir Hugh Fenne) ABT 1466, Scoulton, Norfolk, England
• Children:
  • 1. George NEVILLE (3° B. Abergavenny)
  • 2. John NEVILLE (b. ABT 1467)
  • 3. Edward NEVILLE (Sir Knight)
  • 4. William NEVILLE (b. ABT 1473 - d. 9 Jan 1538 - d. 9 Jan 1537/8, in Sp)
  • 5. Thomas NEVILLE (Sir Knight)
  • 6. Richard NEVILLE (Sir Knight) (b. ABT 1477 - d. ABT 1515)
  • 7. Elizabeth NEVILLE
  • 8. Jane NEVILLE
• Married 2: Elizabeth ? AFT 1485, London, England
• From: http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/NEVILLE4.htm#George NEVILLE (2° B. Abergavenny) _________________
• Plantagenet Ancestry: A Study In Colonial And Medieval Families, 2nd Edition ...
• https://books.google.com/books?id=kjme027UeagC&printsec=frontcover&...
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• 12. ELIZABETH BEAUCHAMP, daughter and heiress, born at Hanley Castle, Worcestershire 16 Sept. 1415 (aged 18 in 1436). She married by dispensation dated 28 Aug. 1428 (they being related in the 4th and 3rd degree of kindred) (as his 1st wife EDWARD NEVILLE, Knt., of Birling, Mereworth, etc., Kent, Cuckfield, Sussex, etc., Governor of Leeds Castle and Park, 1451, Privy Councillor, 1454, and, in right of his wife, of Allesley, Warwickshire, youngest son of Ralph Neville, K.G., 1st Earl of Westmorland, 4th Lord Neville of Raby (descendant of King John), by his 2nd wife, Joan Beaufort, legitimated daughter of John of Gaunt, K.G., Duke of Aquitaine and Lancaster, Earl of Derby, Lincoln, and Leicester (son of King Edward III) [see NEVILLE 9 for his ancestry]. They had two sons, Richard and George, Knt. [Lord Bergavenny], and two daughters, Elizabeth (wife of Thomas Grey, Knt.), and Katherine (wife of John Iwardby, K.B.). On the basis of an entail dated 1395/6, his wife, Elizabeth, was excluded from the Lordship and Castle of Abergavenny by her step-father, Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, and her half-brother, Henry Beauchamp Knt., Duke of Warwick. Edward presented to the church of Stouting, Kent in 1436, 1437, and 1438. he was made an honorary member of the Guild of Merchant Taylors of London in 1436-7 as "Edw. Nevyll, Lord Bergevenny." He was a legatee in the 1440 will of his father. Elizabeth was co-heir in 1447 to her cousin, Edmund Lenthall, Esq. His wife, Elizabeth, died 18 June 1448, and was buried at the Carmelites, Coventry, Warwickshire. Edward married (2nd) by dispensation dated 15 Oct. 1448 (she and his 1st wife being related in the 3rd degree of kindred) KATHERINE HOWARD, daughter of Robert Howard, Knt., of Stoke Nayland, Suffolk (descendant of King John), by Margaret, daughter of Thomas Mowbray, K.G., 1st Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal, Earl of Nottingham (descendant of King Edward I) [see HOWARD 10 for her ancestry]. They had cohabited in the lifetime of his 1st wife, and were excommunicated, later absolved. They had two sons, Ralph and Edward, and three daughters, Margaret, Katherine, and Anne. Following the death of Anne, daughter of Henry Beauchamp, Knt., Duke of Warwick, in 1449, Edward Neville had license to enter and possess the Castle, lordship and manor of Abergavenny. He was summoned to Parliament from 5 Sept. 1450 to 19 Aug. 1472, by writs directed Edwardo Nevill domino de Bergevenny Militi. SIR EDWARD NEVILLE, Lord Bergavenny, died 18 Oct. 1476. His widow, Katherine was living 29 June 1478.
• .... etc.
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• 13. GEORGE NEVILLE, Knt., Lord Bergavenny, 2nd but 1st surviving son and heir by his father's 1st marriage, born at Raby Castle, Durham, and baptized at Staindrop, Durham about 1440 (aged 36 in 1476). He was co-heiress in 1449 to his cousin, Anne Beauchamp, suo jure Countess of Warwick, by which he inherited a 1/2 share in the barony of Burghersh. He married (1st) before 1 May 1471 (date of enfeoffment) MARGARET AT[TE] FENNE, daughter and heiress of Hugh at[te] Fenne, Esq., of Sculton Burdeleys, Herringby, and Swaffham, Norfolk, and Braintree, Essex, Treasurer of the Household to King Henry VI, Escheator of Norfolk and Suffolk. They had six sons, George, K.G., K.B., [Lord Bergavenny], John, William, Edward, Knt., Thomas Knt. [Speaker of the House of Commons, Secretary of State to King Henry VIII], and Richard, Knt., and one daughter Elizabeth. In 1457 he had license to have seisin of one-half of the entailed Despenser estates held by his late cousin, Anne Beauchamp, which grant was blocked by Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, husband of the other co-heir, Anne Beauchamp. In 1461, after the ascession of King Edward IV, George obtained license to have seisin of all the estates of his cousin, Anne Beauchamp. In 1471 he conveyed his share of the manor of Medmenham, Buckinghamshire to
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• Geoffrey Pole, Esq., for annual rent of 10 marks. He was summoned to Parliament from 15 Nov. 1482 to 12 Aug. 1492, by writs directed Georgio Nevyle de Bergevenny ???. He was present at the Coronation of King Richard III of England in 1483. His wife, Margaret, died 28 Sept. 1485. He married (2nd) before 29 Feb. 1488/9 ELIZABETH ____ , widow successively of Richard Naylor (died 1483), Citizen and merchant tailor of London, Master of the Merchant Taylors Company, 1475, Alderman of London; Robert Bassett, Knt. (died 1484), of London, salter, M.P. for London, 1460-1, Alderman of London, 1461-84, Sheriff of London, 1463-4, Lord Mayor of London, 1475-6; and John Stokker (died 1486), of St. George's, Eastcheap, London, Master of the Drapers Company, Alderman of London, 1479-85. SIR GEORGE NEVILLE, Lord Bergavenny, died 20 Sept. 1492, and was buried at Lewes Priory, Sussex. He left a will proved Jan. 1496 (P.C.C. 8 Horne). He bequeathed 200 marks to the Prior of Lewes, to cause daily mass to be sung at the altar, near his place of burial, and to observe the anniversary of his death. His widow, Elizabeth, Lady Bergavenny, left a will dated 14 April 1500, proved 19 June 1500 (P.C.C. 8 Moore), requesting burial in the Lady chapel of St. Martin's Outwich, London where her 1st husband was interred.
• .... etc.
• Children of George Neville, Knt., by Margaret at[te] Fenne:
  • i. GEORGE NEVILLE, K.G., K.B., Lord Bergavenny [see next].
  • ii. EDWARD NEVILLE, Knt., of Addington Park, Kent, Esquire of the King's Body, Constable of Leeds Castle, 4th son. He married before 6 April 1529 ELEANOR WINDSOR, widow of Ralph Scrope, Knt., 9th Lord Scrope (of Masham or Upsall) (died 17 Sept. 1515), and daughter of Andrew Windsor, K.B., 1st Lord Windsor (descendant of King Edward I), by Elizabeth (descendant of King Henry III), daughter of William Blount, Esq. [see LUDLOW 15. iii for her ancestry]. They had two sons, Edward, Esq. [Lord Bergavenny] and Henry, Knt. [Master of the Harriers], and five daughters, Katherine, Mary (wife of Henry Dyneley), Frances (wife of Edward Waldegrave, Knt.), Gertrude, and Elizabeth (wife of Thomas Eymes, Esq.). In the period 1518-29, he and his wife, Eleanor, executrix and late the wife of Ralph Scrope, Lord Scrope of Upsall, sued James Strangeways, Esq., Marmaduke Wyvell, and others, heirs in co-parcenry of the said Lord Scrope, in Chancery regarding the manors of Upsall, Over Stylton, Kilvington, Thornborough, Driffield, Sough Thoresby, Masham,
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  • Ecclesall, Ainderby; Carlton Scrope, West Allington, Huton; Whalton; Muckham; Harborough, Bowdon; Nayland; Fyfield; Paul's Cray and Dryvyle, assigned as the jointure of the said Eleanor. He was present at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520. He was one of the principal commanders in France, 1523-4. His wife, Eleanor, died before 25 March 1531. SIR EDWARD NEVILLE was implicated in the plot of his niece's husband, Henry Pole, Lord Montagu, tried at Westminster, attainted of treason 4 Dec. 1538, and beheaded 9 Jan. 1538/9. .... etc.
  • ELIZABETH NEVILLE, married (1st) THOMAS BERKELEY, Esq., of Avon (in Sopley), Hampshire [see FISHER 12];117 (2nd) RICHARD COVERT, of Slaugham, Sussex [see FISHER 12].
• 14. GEORGE NEVILLE, K.G., K.B., Lord Bergavenny, of Birling, West Peckham, Mereworth, etc., Kent, Abergavenny House, London, etc., Keeper of Southfrith Park, Kent, 1499-1508, Constable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports, c. 1512-15, Keeper of Ashdown Forest, Kent, 1515, Privy Councillor, 1515-21, son and heir, born about 1469 (aged 16 in 1485). He married (1st) JOAN ARUNDEL, daughter of Thomas Arundel, K.G., K.B., 17th Earl of Arundel (descendant of King Edward III), by Margaret (descendant of King Henry III) daughter of Richard Wydeville, K.G., 1st Earl Rivers, Constable of England, Lord High Treasurer [see ARUNDEL 14 for her ancestry]. They had two daughters, Elizabeth (wife of Henry Daubeney, K.B., Earl of Bridgwater) and Jane. He was summoned to Parliament from 16 Jan. 1496/7 to 5 Jan 1533/4. He served in the wars against France, and was in the Battle of Blackheath in 1497 against the Cornish rebels. In 1506 he was indicted for keeping unlawful retainers, for which crime he was fined the enormous sum of £50,000; he was sentenced in the King's Bench in Michaelmas term 1507. His wife, Joan, died 14 Nov. 1508. In 1509 the king cancelled the debt and allowed him to retain men lawfully for the king's service. He was Chief Larderer at the Coronation of Henry VIII in 1509, and again at that of Anne Boleyn, Queen Consort, in 1533. He was granted the castle and lands of Abergavenny by King Henry VIII in 1512. He married (2nd) before 5 Sept. 1513 (date of fine) MARGARET BRENT, daughter of John Brent, Gent., of Charing, Kent. They had no issue. In 1513 he and his wife, Margaret, sold the manor of Speenhamland (in Speen), Berkshire. She was living in 1515. In 1517 Wolsey threatened to prosecute him for having too many men in his livery. George Married (3rd) about June 1519 [LADY] MARY STAFFORD, youngest daughter of Edward Stafford, K.G., K.B., 3rd Duke of Buckingham (descendant of King Edward III), by Eleanor, daughter of Henry Percy, K.G., 4th Earl of Northumberland (descendant of King Edward III) [see STAFFORD 14 for her ancestry]. They had three sons, Henry (or Harry), K.B., [Lord
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• Bergavenny], John, and Thomas, and five daughters, Mary (wife of Thomas Fiennes, 9th Lord Dacre, John Wotton, and Francis Thursby, Esq.), Katherine (wife of John St. Leger, Knt.), Margaret (wife of John Cheney and Henry Poole, Esq.), Dorothy (wife of William Brooke, 10th Lord Cobham), and Ursula. He and his wife attended the king at the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520. He was imprisoned c.May 1521, and pardoned for misprision of treason 29 March 1522. He was captain of the army in France in 1523. He married (4th) MARY BROOKE (otherwise COBHAM), formerly his servant. They had one daughter. SIR GEORGE NEVILLE, Lord Bergavenny, left a will dated 4 Jun 1535, prove 24 Jan. 1535/6 (P.C.C. 35 Hogen), and was buried in Birling, Kent.
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• Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, Volume 40
• Neville, Edward (d.1538) by William Arthur Jobson Archbold
• NEVILLE, Sir EDWARD (d. 1538), courtier, was third but second surviving son of George, second baron Bergavenny, by his first wife, Margaret, daughter of Sir Hugh Fenne, under-treasurer of England. His brothers George, third lord Bergavenny [q. v.], and Sir Thomas Neville [q. v.] of Mereworth, speaker of the House of Commons, are separately noticed. Edward Neville was prominent at the court when Henry VIII came to the throne. .... etc.
• Neville married Eleanor, daughter of Andrew, lord Windsor, and widow of Ralph, lord Scrope of Upsall, and left several children. .... etc.
• [Rowland's Account of the Family of Nevill, 1830; Letters and Papers Henry VIII, 1509–37; Doyle's Official Baronage, i. 5; Hasted's Kent, ii. 198 seq.; Wriothesley's Chron. (Camd. Soc.), i. 91, 92; Chron. of Calais (Camd. Soc.); Cranmer's Works, ii. 64, Zurich Letters, iii. 625, in the Parker Soc.; Rutland Papers (Camd. Soc.)]
• From: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Neville,_Edward_(d.1538)_(DNB00)
• https://archive.org/stream/dictionaryofnati40stepuoft#page/250/mode... ______________

Children:

John De Neville 1467-1469

Elizabeth de Neville 1467-1500

George Neville ;[Baron Abergaveny] 1469-1535

G Baron Abergaveny Neville 1471-1535

Edward de Neville 1471-1535

Edward Nevill 1471-1538

William Neville 1473-1538

Sir Thomas Nevill 1475-1542

Richard Latimer Nevill 1475-Deceased

Thomas Neville 1475-1542

Jane Neville 1481-1538

Jane Neville 1481-1552

dorothy neville 1515-1547

Baroness Dacre Mary Neville 1516-1565

eleanor neville 1517-1610

edward neville 1526-1620

henry (earl of westmorland) neville 1527-1564

christopher neville 1528-1620

margaret neville 1530-1559

ralph neville 1532-1625

cuthbert neville 1534-1569

Ann Neville 1533-1583

mary margaret neville 1540-1635

eleanor (Lady) neville 1542-1640

catherine neville 1544-1630

joan neville 1546-1640

ursula neville 1548-1645www.findagrave.com

Margaret Fenne
BIRTH 1444
England
DEATH 28 Sep 1485 (aged 40–41)
Norfolk, England
BURIAL
Burial Details Unknown
MEMORIAL ID 186266882

Family Members
Parents
Hugh atte Fenne
1422–1476

Eleanor Fenn
unknown–1485

Spouse
George Neville
1440–1492

Children
Edward Neville
1471–1538
Jane Neville Pole
1481–1539