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GEORGE NEVILLE (c. 1432-1476)

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 458 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORGE See also:NEVILLE (c. 1432-1476)  , See also:archbishop of See also:York and See also:chancellor of See also:England, was the youngest son of See also:Richard See also:Neville, See also:earl of See also:Salisbury, and See also:brother of Richard Neville, earl of See also:Warwick, known as the " Kingmaker." He was educated at Balliel See also:College, See also:Oxford, and was from his childhood destined for the clerical profession, in which through the See also:great See also:influence of his See also:family he obtained rapid See also:advancement, becoming See also:bishop of See also:Exeter in 1458 . From this See also:time forward Neville took a prominent See also:part in the troubled politics of the See also:period . He was See also:present with his brother Warwick at the See also:battle of See also:Northampton in See also:July 146o, immediately after which the great See also:seal was committed to his keeping . He took part in the See also:proclamation of See also:Edward of York as See also:king, who confirmed his See also:appointment as chancellor . In 1463 he was employed on a See also:diplomatic See also:mission in See also:France; and in 1464, after taking part in negotiation with the Scots, Neville became archbishop of York . During the next few years he as well as his See also:brothers See also:fell into disfavour with Edward IV.; and in 1469, after a successful rising in See also:Yorkshire secretly fermented by Warwick, the king fell into the hands of the archbishop, by whom, after a See also:short imprisonment, he was permitted to See also:escape . When Warwick was in turn defeated by the king's forces at See also:Stamford in 1470, Archbishop Neville took the See also:oath of See also:allegiance to Edward, but during the short Lancastrian restoration which compelled Edward to See also:cross to See also:Holland, Neville acted as chancellor to See also:Henry VI.; and when the See also:tide once more turned he again trimmed his sails to the favouring See also:breeze, making his See also:peace with Edward, now again triumphant, by surrendering Henry into his hands . The archbishop for a short time shared Henry's captivity in the See also:Tower . Having been pardoned in See also:April 1471, he was re-arrested a See also:year later on a See also:charge of See also:treason and secretly conveyed to France, where he remained a prisoner till 1475, when he returned to England; he died in the following year, on the 8th of See also:June 14.76 . Archbishop Neville was a respectable See also:scholar; and he was a considerable benefactor of the university of Oxford and especially of Balliol College . See See also:Thomas See also:Rymer, Foedera, &c . (See also:London, 1704) ; See also:John See also:Warkworth, See also:Chronicle of the first Thirteen Years of the Reign of Edward IV., ed .

J . O . Halliwell (See also:

Camden See also:Soc., London, 1839); Paston Letters, ed . J . See also:Gairdner (London, 1872-1875); The See also:Historical Collections of a See also:Citizen of London in the 15th See also:century, ed . J . Gairdner (Camden Soc., London, 1876) ; See also:Sir See also:James H . See also:Ramsay, See also:Lancaster and York 1399—1485 (Oxford, 1892) .

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