Alexander Neville

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Alexander Neville
Archbishop of York
Enthroned {{{began}}}
Ended 30 April 1388
Predecessor John of Thoresby
Successor Thomas Arundel
Consecration June 4, 1374
Born about 1340
Died May 1392
Leuven
Buried Leuven
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Alexander Neville (c. 1340 - May 1392) was Archbishop of York between 1374–1388.

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[edit] 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.[1] He became Canon of York and a favourite of King Richard II of England, and on 3 April 1374, he was made Archbishop of York, and was consecrated on 4 June 1374.[2] On the Lords Appellant rising against Richard in 1386, however, he was accused of treason and it was determined to imprison him for life in Rochester 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),[2] he served as a parish priest in Leuven, where he was buried in the Church of the Carmelites.

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  1. ^ Cokayne The Complete Peerage: Volume IX p. 501
  2. ^ a b Fryde Handbook of British Chronology p. 282

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Roman Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
John of Thoresby		 Archbishop of York
1374–1388		 Succeeded by
Thomas Arundel
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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