- Alexander Neville
Infobox Archbishop of York
name = Alexander Neville
consecration = 4 June 1374
began = unknown
term_end = 30 April 1388
predecessor =John of Thoresby
successor =Thomas Arundel
birth_date = about 1340
birthplace =
death_date = May 1392
deathplace = Leuven
tomb = LeuvenAlexander Neville (c. 1340 - May 1392) was
Archbishop of York between 1374–1388.Life
He was a member of one of the most powerful families in the North of England, being a younger son of
Ralph Neville, 2nd Baron Neville de Raby and Alice de Audley.Cokayne "The Complete Peerage: Volume IX" p. 501] He became Canon of York and afavourite of KingRichard II of England , and on 3 April 1374, he was madeArchbishop of York , and was consecrated on 4 June 1374.Fryde "Handbook of British Chronology" p. 282] On theLords Appellant rising against Richard in 1386, however, he was accused of treason and it was determined to imprison him for life inRochester Castle .Neville fled, and the Pope, pitying his case, translated him to the Scottish See of St. Andrews in 1388. But the Scots would not receive him and, for three years (until his death in May 1392), he served as a parish priest in
Leuven , where he was buried in the Church of theCarmelites .Notes
References
*Cokayne, G. E. "
The Complete Peerage : Volume IX Rickerton to Sisonby" reprint edition Gloucester:Sutton Publishing 2000 ISBN 0-904387-82-8
*External links
* [http://www.britannia.com/bios/abofy/aneville.html Alexander Neville at Britannia Biographies]
Persondata
NAME= Neville, Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Archbishop of York
DATE OF BIRTH=
PLACE OF BIRTH=circa 1340
DATE OF DEATH=May 1392
PLACE OF DEATH=Leuven
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