England and Wales; County Durham, Monmouthshire and the English peerage
Neville of Bergavenny — Edward Nevill, founder of the rose-differenced branch
- Family / house
- Neville of Raby; Neville of Bergavenny; Neville of Abergavenny; Beauchamp; Beaufort
- Family / cadet branch
- Bergavenny/Abergavenny branch founded by Edward Nevill
- Armiger / bearer
- Sir Edward Nevill, de facto 3rd and de jure 1st Baron Bergavenny
- Entity type
- individual
- Social rank / class
- peer
- Heraldic authority
- College of Arms jurisdiction; English Parliament; peerage authorities
- Record basis
- ancient_usage
- Issued / first recorded
- 1450
- Until / superseded
- 1476
- Historical period
- Late medieval England; Wars of the Roses
- Grant / record reference
- Summoned by writ from 5 September 1450 to 19 August 1472 as Edwardo Nevill domino de Bergevenny; the rose difference is heraldically associated with his position as a seventh son.
- Blazon
- Gules, a saltire Argent charged with a rose of the field, barbed and seeded Proper.
- Plain-English description
- A red shield bearing a silver saltire, with a red rose placed at its centre; the rose has natural green barbs and a natural-coloured seed centre.
- Tinctures
- Gules; Argent; Proper
- Charges / ordinaries
- saltire; rose
- Difference / variant
- Rose-differenced Neville of Raby arms. The rose is the characteristic distinction of the Bergavenny branch and is treated in later heraldic tradition as the difference of a seventh son.
- Source reference
- The Complete Peerage, Abergavenny, vol. 1, p. 30
- Linked historical person
- Edward Neville
- Source
- Open source
Genealogical context
- Father
- Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland
- Mother
- Joan Beaufort
- Spouse(s)
- Elizabeth de Beauchamp; Katherine Howard
- Children / next generation
- Richard Nevill; George Nevill, 4th Baron Bergavenny; Alice Nevill; Catherine Nevill; Margaret Nevill; Anne Nevill
Documented depiction
Notes / sources
The terminology 'rose of the field' is retained because it appears in established heraldic descriptions. Some renderings explicitly blazon the rose as Gules, barbed and seeded Proper.