George Neville, 1st Baron Latimer

Who was George Neville, 1st Baron Latimer?

George Neville, 1st Baron Latimer or was an English peer.

George Neville was the fifth son of Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, by his second wife Lady Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster. He succeeded to the Latymer estates on the death of his half-uncle John Neville, 6th Baron Latimer, in 1430, and on 25 February 1432 he was summoned to Parliament as Baron Latimer.

Lord Latimer later fought in Scotland in 1436, was a Justice of the Peace for Cumberland in 1437 and admitted to the Privy Council in 1439.

In 1437, Lord Latimer married Lady Elizabeth, daughter of Richard de Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick, by his first wife, Elizabeth Berkeley. They had four children:

Katherine Neville, who died childless.

Sir Henry Neville, who married Joan Bourchier, daughter of John Bourchier, 1st Baron Berners, and Marjorie Berners, and had:

Richard Neville, 2nd Baron Latimer, married in Grafton, Worcestershire, in 1490 to Anne Stafford, daughter of Sir Humphrey Stafford of Grafton and Catherine Fray, and had issue which included John Nevill, 3rd Baron Latimer.