Family / house

Neville of Raby; Neville of Bergavenny; Neville of Abergavenny; Beauchamp; Fane; Abergavenny

Family / cadet branch

Bergavenny/Abergavenny branch from Edward Neville, seventh son of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland

Armiger / bearer

Edward Neville, Baron Bergavenny, and the succeeding Neville lords and marquesses of Abergavenny

Entity type

cadet_branch

Social rank / class

peer

Heraldic authority

English Crown; Complete Peerage; College of Arms tradition

Record basis

recording

Issued / first recorded

1449

Until / superseded

present

Historical period

Late medieval to modern period

Blazon

Gules, a saltire Argent charged with a rose of the field, barbed and seeded Proper.

Plain-English description

A red shield with the white Neville saltire bearing a red rose, naturally detailed, at its centre.

Tinctures

Gules; Argent; Vert; Or

Charges / ordinaries

Saltire; Rose

Crest

A bull's head Argent pied Sable, armed Or, charged on the neck with a rose Gules, in later titled achievements.

Motto

NE VILE VELIS.

Exterior ornaments

Later marquesses used peerage achievements with bull supporters and the Abergavenny coronet or Garter insignia where applicable.

Difference / variant

The red rose is the characteristic difference of the Bergavenny branch and is traditionally interpreted as the mark of a seventh son.

Source reference

The Complete Peerage, Bergavenny entry

Source

Open source

Genealogical context

Father

Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland

Mother

Joan Beaufort

Spouse(s)

Elizabeth Beauchamp; Katherine Howard

Children / next generation

George Neville, Baron Bergavenny; Edward Neville, ecclesiastical and collateral issue

Documented depiction

Open depiction source

Notes / sources