Mary Fiennes, Baroness Dacre

Mary Fiennes
Baroness Dacre
Mary Nevill by Hans Eworth, 1555-1558, with an inset portrait of her first husband Thomas Fiennes dated a year before his death.
Spouse(s)	Thomas Fiennes, 9th Baron Dacre
Issue Thomas Fiennes Gregory Fiennes, 10th Baron Dacre Margaret Fiennes, 11th Baroness Dacre
Noble family	Neville (by birth) Fiennes (by marriage)
Father	George Nevill, 5th Baron Bergavenny
Mother	Lady Mary Stafford
Born	1524
Died	1576 (aged 51–52)

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Mary Nevill and her son Gregory Fiennes by Hans Eworth, 1559

Mary Fiennes, Baroness Dacre (1524–1576; née Mary Nevill) was the daughter of George Nevill, 5th Baron Bergavenny by his third wife, Lady Mary Stafford, youngest daughter of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham.

She married Thomas Fiennes, 9th Baron Dacre (c. 1515-1541), who was convicted of the murder of a gamekeeper and hanged as a common criminal at Tyburn in 1541. The family was stripped of its lands and titles by Henry VIII.

In the following years, Mary battled to have the properties restored on behalf of her children, and on her ascension in 1558 Elizabeth restored the title of Baron Dacre to Mary's second son Gregory, 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 (1539–1594)
• Margaret Fiennes, 11th Baroness Dacre (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.

Ancestry

Family of Mary Fiennes, Baroness Dacre

16. Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland               8. Edward Neville, 3rd Baron Bergavenny                       17. Lady Joan Beaufort               4. George Neville, 4th Baron Bergavenny                             18. Richard de Beauchamp, 1st Earl of Worcester               9. Lady Elizabeth de Beauchamp                       19. Lady Isabel le Despenser               2. George Neville, 5th Baron Bergavenny                                   20.               10. Sir Hugh Fenne, Knt.                       21.               5. Margaret Fenne                             22.               11. Eleanor                       23.               1. Hon. Mary Neville, Lady Dacre                                         24. Humphrey Stafford, Earl of Stafford               12. Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham                       25. Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Stafford               6. Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham                             26. Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers               13. Lady Katherine Woodville                       27. Jacquetta of Luxembourg               3. Lady Mary Stafford                                   28. Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland               14. Henry Percy, 4th Earl of Northumberland                       29. Eleanor Poynings               7. Lady Alianore Percy                             30. William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke               15. Lady Maud Herbert                       31. Anne Devereux

References

• Honig, Elizabeth: "In Memory: Lady Dacre and Pairing by Hans Eworth" in Renaissance Bodies: The Human Figure in English Culture c. 1540-1660 edited by Lucy Gent and Nigel Llewellyn, Reaktion Books, 1990, ISBN 0-948462-08-6

External links

• Mary Neville Baroness Dacre at TudorPlace.com