Mary Fiennes, Baroness Dacre

Mary Nevill by Hans Eworth, 1555-1558, with an inset portrait of her first husband Thomas Fiennes dated a year before his death.

Mary Nevill and her son Gregory Fiennes by Hans Eworth, 1559

Mary Fiennes, Baroness Dacre (1524–1576; née Mary Nevill) was the daughter of George Nevill, 5th Baron Bergavenny by his third wife, Mary, daughter of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham.

She married Thomas Fiennes, 9th Baron Dacre (c. 1515-1541), who was convicted of the murder of a gamekeeper and hanged as a common criminal at Tyburn in 1541. The family was stripped of its lands and titles by Henry VIII.

In the following years, Mary battled to have the properties restored on behalf of her children, and on her ascension in 1558 Elizabeth restored the title of Baron Dacre to Mary's second son Gregory, her eldest son Thomas having died of the plague at age 15.

By her first husband, Mary Fiennes was the mother of:

• Thomas Fiennes (1538–1553)
• Gregory Fiennes, 10th Baron Dacre (1539–1594)
• Margaret Fiennes, 11th Baroness Dacre (1540–1611)

Mary Nevill married twice after her first husband's death and had several other children about whom little is known.

Mary Nevill is the sitter in two significant portraits by Hans Eworth.

Ancestry

Henry Nevill, 6th Baron Bergavenny's ancestors in three generations

Lady Mary Neville, Baroness Dacre	Father: George Nevill, 5th Baron Bergavenny	Paternal Grandfather: George Nevill, 4th Baron Bergavenny	Paternal Great-grandfather: Edward Nevill, 3rd Baron Bergavenny
			Paternal Great-grandmother: Elizabeth Beauchamp, Baroness Bergavenny
		Paternal Grandmother: Margaret Fenne, Baroness Bergavenny	Paternal Great-grandfather: Sir Hugh Fenne of Sculton Burdeleys, Norfolk
			Paternal Great-grandmother: Eleanor
	Mother: Mary Stafford, Baroness Bergavenny	Maternal Grandfather: Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham	Maternal Great-grandfather: Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham
			Maternal Great-grandmother: Catherine Woodville, Duchess of Buckingham
		Maternal Grandmother: Eleanor Percy, Duchess of Buckingham	Maternal Great-grandfather: Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland
			Maternal Great-grandmother: Maud Herbert, Countess of Northumberland

References

• Honig, Elizabeth: "In Memory: Lady Dacre and Pairing by Hans Eworth" in Renaissance Bodies: The Human Figure in English Culture c. 1540-1660 edited by Lucy Gent and Nigel Llewellyn, Reaktion Books, 1990, ISBN 0-948462-08-6

External links

• Mary Neville Baroness Dacre at TudorPlace.com^{[unreliable source?]}

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Name	Fiennes, Mary, Baroness Dacre
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Date of birth	1524
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Date of death	1576
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