Person:John Neville (91)

Name	John Neville, 1st Baron Neville de Raby
Gender	Male
Birth^[1]	Abt 1410	House of Neville
Marriage	1452	to Anne Holland
Military^[1]	28 Mar 1461	Combatant of Ferrybridge
Death^[1]	29 Mar 1461	Towton, Yorkshire, England Combatant of Towton
Other`^?`		Not To Be Confused With^?: John de Neville (1)
Reference Number`^?`		Q6250310^?

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John Neville, Baron Neville (c. 1410 – 29 March 1461) was an English nobleman who fought for the House of Lancaster during the Wars of the Roses. He belonged to a senior but impoverished branch of the Neville family of northern England, which had earlier been disinherited in favour of a younger branch headed by John's half–uncle, Richard, Earl of Salisbury. John Neville and his brothers spent several years feuding with Salisbury over the contested inheritance and, when the dynastic wars broke out, John sided with the Lancastrians whilst the junior Nevilles sided with the House of York.

John was a beneficiary of the spoils of war after the Yorkists fled England in 1459, being awarded many of his rival Neville cousins' confiscated lands and offices, and was also raised to the rank of baron. When Richard of York returned in 1460 and claimed the throne, Lord Neville initially posed as an ally, but went back to the Lancastrian side just before the Battle of Wakefield. York gave battle, likely thinking Neville would arrive to reinforce him, but was instead attacked and slain. Lord Neville himself, however, was killed shortly thereafter in an ambush leading up to the Battle of Towton in 1461. His son later inherited the earldom of Westmorland.

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