Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland [SEP] noble family
Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland
Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland (c. 136421 October 1425), was an English nobleman of the House of Neville.
Family.
Ralph Neville was born about 1364, the son of John Neville, 3rd Baron Neville de Raby, and Maud Percy (d. before 18 February 1379), daughter of Henry de Percy, 2nd Baron Percy of Alnwick, Northumberland, by Idoine de Clifford, daughter of Robert de Clifford, 1st Baron de Clifford. Neville had a younger
Neville–Neville feud
The Neville–Neville feud was an inheritance dispute in the north of England during the early fifteenth century between two branches of the noble Neville family. The inheritance in question was that of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, a prominent northern nobleman who had issue from two marriages. Westmorland favoured as his heirs the children of his second wife, Joan Beaufort, closely related to the royal family, over those of his first wife, Margaret Stafford.
After Ralph Neville's death in 1425,