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Neville, George (1432 - 1476)

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Birth Date: 1432
Death Date: 1476-06-08

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Resident at Balliol College, Oxford University, probably by 1448; BA supplicated 1450, determined 1451; MA 15 May 1452; ordained 21 Dec. 1454. Arrested and imprisoned in the Tower after 11 April 1471; pardoned 16 April 1461; released 4 June 1461. Arrested and imprisoned in the Tower 26 April 1472; transferred to Hammes Castle, Calais; pardoned and released 11 Nov. 1475

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Details of Offices

Began Ended Notes
Vicar, Westmorland 1449/50 -3 -3 1451 -08
Rector, Buckinghamshire 1451 -8 -1 1454 -11
Rector, Lancashire 1451 -6 -5 1458 -11
Archdeacon, Durham Diocese 1452 -4 -15 1456
Chancellor, Oxford University, Oxfordshire 1453 -6 -9 1457 -07 -6
Archdeacon, Lincoln Diocese 1454 -8 -17 1456
Bishop, Exeter Diocese 1455 -10 -8 (date elected) 1464/5 -03 -15 date translated to Archbishopric of York Provided 4 Feb. 1455/6; temporalities restored 21 March 1455/6; consecrated after 29 Nov. 1458
Master, St Leonard's Hospital, York 1455/6 -1 -24 1458
Chancellor of England, England 1460 -7 -25 1467 -06 -8 Reappointed 10 March 1460/1
JP, Cornwall 1460
JP, Devon 1460 1465
Chancellor, Oxford University, Oxfordshire 1461 -5 -15
JP, Oxfordshire 1461
JP, Middlesex 1461
JP, Hertfordshire 1461
JP, Oxfordshire 1461 1462
JP, Southampton 1461
JP, Surrey 1461
JP, Cornwall 1461/2 1463
Master, St Leonard's Hospital, York 1462
JP, Buckinghamshire 1462/3 1464
Chancellor, Oxford University, Oxfordshire 1463 -5 -20 (probably held office from this year) 1472 -06
JP, Southampton 1463/4 1465
JP, Surrey 1464
JP, Hertfordshire 1464 1465
Archbishop, Province of York 1464/5 -3 -15 (date translated) 1476 -06 -8 Temporalities restored 17 June 1465; enthroned 22 Sept. 1465
JP, Yorkshire: North Riding 1465 1468
JP, Middlesex 1465
JP, Yorkshire: West Riding 1465/6 1468
Commissioner of Oyer and Terminer, Nottinghamshire 1466
JP, Buckinghamshire 1466
JP, Oxfordshire 1466
JP, Yorkshire: East Riding 1466 1467
JP, Surrey 1466
JP, Nottinghamshire 1466 1468
JP, Middlesex 1466/7
JP, Derbyshire 1466/7
JP, Oxfordshire 1467/8 1471
JP, Buckinghamshire 1468
JP, Derbyshire 1469 1471
Chancellor of England, England 1470 -9 -29 1471 -04
JP, Gloucestershire 1470
JP, Yorkshire: West Riding 1470
JP, Nottinghamshire 1470
JP, Hertfordshire 1470
JP, Bedfordshire 1470 1471
JP, Yorkshire: East Riding 1470
JP, Yorkshire: North Riding 1470
JP, Buckinghamshire 1470 1471
JP, Cumberland 1470/1
JP, Westmorland 1470/1
JP, Middlesex 1470/1
JP, Yorkshire: West Riding 1471/2
JP, Yorkshire: North Riding 1471/2
Abbot, Westminster 1475 -11 -6 1476 -06 -8

Details of Properties

Residence

  • Oxford, Oxfordshire
    Divested: 1458
  • St Leonard Hospital, (city-county) in Yorkshire
    An occasional residence
  • Exeter Episcopal House, London (city-county)
    Acquired: 1455-10
    Divested: 1464/5-03
    House in St Clement Danes parish 'without the bar of the New Temple'
  • Bishop's Palace, Exeter, Exeter (city-county) in Devon
    (Performance Venue)
    Acquired: 1455/6-02
    Divested: 1476-06
    In residence by 10 March 1458/9 to 4 Nov. 1459 and possibly in 1462 and 1464
  • York Place, (city) in Middlesex
    Acquired: 1465
    Divested: 1476-06
    Lost 1467; regained 1469

Event Naming Patron

Event Type Date Location Troupe
Performance - Guildhall (1), Barnstaple, Devon Lord Chancellor's Minstrel
Performance - Canterbury (Unknown), Canterbury, Kent Lord Chancellor's Minstrel/s

Patronized Troupes

Troupe Name Patron Troupe Type # of events
Lord Chancellor's Minstrel Neville, George (1432 - 1476) Entertainers/Minstrels 1
Lord Chancellor's Minstrel/s Neville, George (1432 - 1476) Entertainers/Minstrels 1

Owned Venues

Venue Name County Type
Bishop's Palace Exeter (city-county) in Devon Private Residence

Bibliographic Sources

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  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward IV – Henry VI [1467–77]. London: HMSO, 1900
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Edward IV [1461–7]. London: HMSO, 1897
  • Calendar of Patent Rolls, Henry VI [1422--61]. 6 vols. London: HMSO, 1901--11
  • The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. 1887–98 (8 vols); 1910–59 (13 vols). 6 vols. Gloucester: Alan Sutton, 1982
  • Emden, A.B. A Biographical Register of the University of Oxford to A.D. 1500. 1957. 3 vols. Oxford: Clarendon P, 1989
  • Le Neve, John. Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300--1541. 1716. 12 vols. London: Athlone Press, 1962--7
  • Oliver, George. Lives of the Bishops of Exeter and a History of the Cathedral. Exeter: W. Roberts, 1861
  • Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.