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George Neville (c.
1432 –
June 8,
1476),
archbishop of York and chancellor of England, was the youngest son of
Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, and brother of
Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, known as the "Kingmaker."
Life
He was educated at
Balliol College, Oxford, and was from his childhood destined for the clerical profession, in which through the great influence of his family he obtained rapid advancement, becoming
bishop of Exeter in
1458. He was provided to the see on February 4, 1458 and consecrated on December 3, 1458. From this time forward Neville took a prominent part in the troubled politics of the period. He was present with his brother Warwick at the
battle of Northampton in July
1460, immediately after which the great seal was committed to his keeping.
He took part in the proclamation of Edward of York as king, who confirmed his appointment as chancellor. In
1463 he was employed on a diplomatic mission in France; and in 1464, after taking part in negotiation with the Scots, Neville became archbishop of York on March 15, 1465.
His enthronement as Archbishop of York took place in Cawood Castle in September 1465 and to demonstrate the riches and power of his family, twenty eight peers, fifty nine knights, ten abbots, seven bishops, numerous lawyers, clergy, esquires, and ladies, together with their attendants and servants came to the castle. Together with the archbishop's own family and servants there were about 2500 to be fed at each meal. They consumed 4000 pigeons and 4000 crays, 2000 chickens, 204 cranes, 104 peacocks, 100 dozen quails, 400 swans and 400 herons, 113 oxen, six wild bulls, 608 pikes and bream, 12 porpoises and seals, 1000 sheep, 304 calves, 2000 pigs, 1000 capons, 400 plovers, 200 dozen of a bird called 'rees' (for example ruffs), 4000 mallard and teals, 204 kids and 204 bitterns, 200 pheasants, 500 partridges, 400 woodcocks, 100 curlews, 1000 egrets, over 500 stags, bucks and roes, 4000 cold and 1500 hot venison pies, 4000 dishes of jelly, 4000 baked tarts, 2000 hot custards with a proportionate quantity of bread, sugared delicacies and cakes, and 300 tuns of ale and 100 tuns of wine.
During the next few years he as well as his brothers fell into disfavour with
Edward IV; and in June 1467 Edward took back the Great Seal in person as punishment for Neville's obstruction of the royal plans. In
1469, after a successful rising in Yorkshire secretly fermented by Warwick, the king fell into the hands of the archbishop, by whom, after a short imprisonment, he was permitted to escape.
When Warwick was in turn defeated by the king's forces at Stamford in
1470, Archbishop Neville took the oath of allegiance to Edward, but during the short Lancastrian restoration which compelled Edward to cross to Holland, Neville acted as chancellor to
Henry VI;
Having been pardoned in April 1471, he was re-arrested on April 25, 1472 on a charge of
treason and secretly conveyed to
France, where he remained a prisoner at the castle of
Hammes near
Calais until November of 1474, when he returned to England; he died in the following year, on the 8th of June 1476.
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