Edward Nevill, de facto 3rd Baron Bergavenny was an English peer.
Background
He was the 7th son of Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, and Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland, daughter of John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford). In 1436 he married Lady Elizabeth de Beauchamp (d 18 June 1448), daughter of Richard de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Worcester, and the former Lady Isabel le Despenser, who later succeeded as de jure 3rd Baroness Bergavenny. Their two sons were Richard Nevill (bef 1439 – bef 1476) and Sir George Nevill (c1440–1492), who would become 4th and 2nd Baron Bergavenny upon his father"s death.
Career
They had four children. Through George Nevill, Edward Neville is an ancestor to Mary Ball, mother of George Washington. Their son William was ancestor of Thomas Jefferson.
John and Margaret are the grandparents of Elizabeth Brooke, Lady Wyatt.
Daughter Anne (bbef 1476-1480/81) did not long survive her father. Neville was knighted sometime after 1426.
In 1438, Bergavenny, as he was now styled, was a justice of the peace for Durham. He was a captain in the embattled Duchy of Normandy in 1449.
In 1454, he was appointed to the Privy Council assembled by the Duke of York as Lord Protector, along with his more prominent Neville kinsmen.
He was a commissioner of array in Kent in 1461, and was a captain in Edward IV"s army in the North the following year.
