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William Neville, Earl of Kent KG (c. 1405 – 9 January 1463) and jure uxoris 6th Baron Fauconberg, was an English nobleman and soldier. [1] He fought during the latter part of the Hundred Years' War, and during the English dynastic Wars of the Roses .
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- circa 1409
- Raby Castle, Durham, England
Sep 1, 2021 · NEVILLE, WILLIAM, Baron Fauconberg and afterwards Earl of Kent (d. 1463), was the second son of Ralph Neville, first earl of Westmorland (d. 1425) [q. v.], by his second wife, Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt.
WILLIAM NEVILLE, Baron Fauconberg and afterwards Earl of Kent (d. 1463), was the second son of Ralph Neville, first Earl of Westmorland (d. 1425), by his second wife, Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of Gaunt.
While increasing the political standing of the Nevilles, the royal marriage led to a serious split in the family. Earl Ralph had previously been married to Margaret de Stafford, and the title of Earl of Westmorland descended through his son by this marriage.
The peerage title Earl of Kent has been created eight times in the Peerage of England and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. In fiction, the Earl of Kent is also known as a prominent supporting character in William Shakespeare's tragedy King Lear .
An inscribed marble (figs, 1, 2), until now in the Byzantine collection of the Archaeological Museum at Istanbul, recorded two English knights, Sir William Neville and Sir John Clanvowe, who died in Galata outside Constantinople in 1391.
