Henry Neville

Also known as: sir Henrie Neuill / sir Henrie Neuill sonne and heire to the lord Latimer · Family: Neville · Role: knight · First appears: Edward IV 8

Life events

• c. 1469 · The rebels recruited Henry FitzHugh and Henry Neville as captains.(Edward IV 8)
  • With: Henry FitzHugh
  • “The rebels being nothing dismaied with the death of their capteine, but rather the more bent on misch éefe, by faire meanes and craftie persuasions got to them Henrie, sonne to the lord Fitz Hugh, and sir Henrie Neuill sonne and heire to the lord Latimer”
• c. 1469 · Henry Neville was captured and cruelly killed during a skirmish with the Welshmen.(Edward IV 8)
  • “Sir Henrie Neuill, sonne to the lord Latimer, tooke with him certeine light horssemen, and skirmished with the Welshmen in the euening, iust before their campe, where dooing right valiantlie, but a little too hardilie aduenturing himselfe, was taken and yeelded, and yet cruellie slaine.”

Edward IV 8

• cousins with Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick “The rebels being nothing dismaied with the death of their capteine, but rather the more bent on misch éefe, by faire meanes and craftie persuasions got to them Henrie, sonne to the lord Fitz Hugh, and sir Henrie Neuill sonne and heire to the lord Latimer, the one being nephue and the other cousine germane to the erle of Warwike.”
• with John Conyers (John Conyers was their governor.) “Although these yoong gentlemen bare the names of capteins, yet they had a gouernour that was sir Iohn Coniers, a man of such courage & valiantnesse, as few are to be found in his daies within the north parts.”
• enemies with William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke “The earle of Penbroke did right valiantlie, and so likewise did his brother sir Richard Herbert, in so much that with his polax in his hand, he twise by fine force passed thorough the battell of his aduersaries, and without anie hurt or mortall wound returned. But sée the hap, euen as the Welshmen were at point to haue obteined the victorie, Iohn Clappam esquier, seruant to the earle of Warwike, mounted vp the side of the east hill, accompanied onelie with fiue hundred men, gathered of the rascals of the towne of Northampton, and other villages about, hauing borne before them the standard of the earle of Warwike, with the white beare, crieng; A Warwike, a Warwike.”

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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.