Mary Fiennes, Baroness Dacre (1524–1576; née Mary Nevill) was the daughter of George Nevill, 5th Baron Bergavenny

George Nevill, 5th Baron Bergavenny

George Nevill, 5th and de jure 3rd Baron Bergavenny KG, PC was an English courtier. He held the office of Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports.-Life:...

 by his third wife, Mary, daughter of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham

Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham

Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, KG was an English nobleman. He was the son of Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and the former Lady Catherine Woodville, daughter of the 1st Earl Rivers and sister-in-law of King Edward IV.-Early life:Stafford was born at Brecknock Castle in Wales...

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She married Thomas Fiennes, 9th Baron Dacre

Thomas Fiennes, 9th Baron Dacre

Thomas Fiennes, 9th Baron Dacre was an English aristocrat notable for his conviction and execution for murder.Dacre was the son of Sir Thomas Fiennes and Jane Sutton daughter of Edward Sutton, 2nd Baron Dudley...

 (c. 1515-1541), who was convicted of the murder of a gamekeeper and hanged as a common criminal at Tyburn

Tyburn

Tyburn is a former village just outside the then boundaries of London that was best known as a place of public execution.Tyburn may also refer to:* Tyburn , river and historical water source in London...

 in 1541. The family was stripped of its lands and titles by Henry VIII

Henry VIII of England

Henry VIII was King of England from 21 April 1509 until his death. He was Lord, and later King, of Ireland, as well as continuing the nominal claim by the English monarchs to the Kingdom of France...

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In the following years, Mary battled to have the properties restored on behalf of her children, and on her ascension in 1558 Elizabeth

Elizabeth I of England

Elizabeth I was queen regnant of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death. Sometimes called The Virgin Queen, Gloriana, or Good Queen Bess, Elizabeth was the fifth and last monarch of the Tudor dynasty...

 restored the title of Baron Dacre

Baron Dacre

Baron Dacre is a title that has been created three times in the Peerage of England, every time by writ. The first creation came in 1321 when Ralph Dacre was summoned to Parliament as Lord Dacre. He married Margaret, 2nd Baroness Multon of Gilsland, heiress of a large estate in Cumbria centred on...

 to Mary's second son Gregory

Gregory Fiennes, 10th Baron Dacre

Gregory Fiennes, 10th Baron Dacre was an English courtier.He was the son of Thomas Fiennes, 9th Baron Dacre and Mary Nevill...

, 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
  Gregory Fiennes, 10th Baron Dacre
  Gregory Fiennes, 10th Baron Dacre was an English courtier.He was the son of Thomas Fiennes, 9th Baron Dacre and Mary Nevill...
  
   (1539–1594)
• Margaret Fiennes, 11th Baroness Dacre
  Margaret Fiennes, 11th Baroness Dacre
  Margaret Fiennes, 11th Baroness Dacre was a suo jure peeress having been created Baroness Dacre by King James I of England in 1604. She was the daughter of Thomas Fiennes, 9th Baron Dacre who was executed for murder in the year of her birth. His title and lands had been forfeited to the crown...
  
   (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

Hans Eworth

Hans Eworth was a Flemish painter active in England in the mid-16th century. Along with other exiled Flemings, he made a career in Tudor London, painting allegorical images as well as portraits of the gentry and nobility. About 40 paintings are now attributed to Eworth, among them portraits of...

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Ancestry

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

Lady Mary Neville, Baroness Dacre	Father: George Nevill, 5th Baron Bergavenny George Nevill, 5th Baron Bergavenny George Nevill, 5th and de jure 3rd Baron Bergavenny KG, PC was an English courtier. He held the office of Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports.-Life:...	Paternal Grandfather: George Nevill, 4th Baron Bergavenny George Nevill, 4th Baron Bergavenny Sir George Nevill, 4th and de jure 2nd Baron Bergavenny was an English nobleman.George was the son of Edward Nevill, 3rd Baron Bergavenny and Elizabeth de Beauchamp, Lady of Abergavenny. He was knighted by Edward IV on 9 May 1471, after fighting for the King at the Battle of Tewkesbury...	Paternal Great-grandfather: Edward Nevill, 3rd Baron Bergavenny Edward Nevill, 3rd Baron Bergavenny Edward Nevill, de facto 3rd Baron Bergavenny was an English peer.He was the son of Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland and Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland, daughter of John of Gaunt and Katherine de Roet...
			Paternal Great-grandmother: Elizabeth Beauchamp, Baroness Bergavenny Richard Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Worcester Richard de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Worcester, KB was an English peer.The only son of the William de Beauchamp, 1st Baron Bergavenny, he succeeded as 2nd Baron Bergavenny upon the death of his father....
		Paternal Grandmother: Margaret Fenne, Baroness Bergavenny	Paternal Great-grandfather: Sir Hugh Fenne of Sculton Burdeleys, Norfolk Norfolk Norfolk is a low-lying county in the East of England. It has borders with Lincolnshire to the west, Cambridgeshire to the west and southwest and Suffolk to the south. Its northern and eastern boundaries are the North Sea coast and to the north-west the county is bordered by The Wash. The county...
			Paternal Great-grandmother: Eleanor
	Mother: Mary Stafford, Baroness Bergavenny	Maternal Grandfather: Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, KG was an English nobleman. He was the son of Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and the former Lady Catherine Woodville, daughter of the 1st Earl Rivers and sister-in-law of King Edward IV.-Early life:Stafford was born at Brecknock Castle in Wales...	Maternal Great-grandfather: Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, KG played a major role in Richard III of England's rise and fall. He is also one of the primary suspects in the disappearance of the Princes in the Tower...
			Maternal Great-grandmother: Catherine Woodville, Duchess of Buckingham
		Maternal Grandmother: Eleanor Percy, Duchess of Buckingham Eleanor Percy, Duchess of Buckingham Eleanor Percy, Duchess of Buckingham , also known as Alianore, was a daughter of Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland by his wife Lady Maud Herbert, herself a daughter of the first Earl of Pembroke. She married Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham, who was beheaded in 1521 on false charges of...	Maternal Great-grandfather: Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland, KG son of Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland and his wife Eleanor Poynings, daughter of Richard Poynings, Lord Poynings....
			Maternal Great-grandmother: Maud Herbert, Countess of Northumberland

External links

• Mary Neville Baroness Dacre at TudorPlace.com