B41105-Nevill

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Name of the family:

Nevill

Blason:

Same Arms and Crest.

Info about the family:

Earl of Warwick and Salisbury; Sir Richard Nevill, K.G., eldest son of Ralph, first Earl of Westmorland, by his second wife, Joan de Beaufort, dau. of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, m. Lady Alice Montacute, dau. and heiress of Thomas, fourth Earl of Salisbury, and had the Earldom of Salisbury renewed in his person; his son and heir, Richard, second Earl of Salisbury, K.G., who m. Lady Anne Beauchamp, heiress of her niece, Anne, Countess of Warwick, thenceforward was known as Earl of Warwick. The daus. and co-heirs of Richard Nevill, Earl of Warwick, the King Maker, were Isabel, wife of George Plantaqenet, Duke of Clarence, and Anne, m. first, Edwabd, Prince of Wales, and secondly, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, afterwards Richard III.

Comment (Additional info):

This was the famous King Maker: his seal as Earl of Warwick, attached to a deed, 4 Edward IV.. during the lifetime of his father, shows a quartered shleld: 1st grand quarter, Beauchamp and Clare quarterly; 2nd grand quarter, Montacute and Monthermer quarterly; 3rd grand quarter, Nevill, differenced by a label of three points; 4th grand quarter, Warwick and Le Despencer. Supporters-Dexter, a bear muzzled and chained; sinister, a griffin. crests-1st: Out of a ducal coronet a swan's head and neck; 2nd: On a ducal coronet a griffin sejant with this legend, "Sigillum ricardi nevill comitis warrewici domini de bergevenny."

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727

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