{{Short description|English noblewoman}}{{Infobox noble | name = Lady Lucy Neville, Baroness Latimer | CoA = | tenure = | predecessor = | successor = | birth_name = Lucy Somerset | birth_date = c. 1524 | death_date = 23 February 1583 | house-type = Gentry | noble family = Beaufort | spouse = John Neville, 4th Baron Latimer | issue = Katherine Neville, Countess of Northumberland<br>Dorothy Neville, Countess of Exeter<br>Lucy Neville<br>Elizabeth Neville | father = Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester | mother = Elizabeth Browne }}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Lady Lucy Neville, Baroness Latimer''' (née '''Somerset'''; c. 1524 – 23 February 1583) was an English noblewoman and the daughter of Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester and his second wife, Elizabeth Browne. Lucy served as a Maid of Honour to Queen Consort Katherine Howard. Lucy married in 1545, John Neville, 4th Baron Latimer, the stepson of King Henry's sixth consort Catherine Parr to whom Lucy served in the capacity of Lady-in-waiting.
==Family== Lucy Somerset was born about 1524 to Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester, and his second wife, Elizabeth Browne, the daughter of Sir Anthony Browne, Governor of Queenborough and Lieutenant of Calais and his second wife, Lucy Neville, daughter of John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu.<ref>{{Harvnb|Richardson IV|2011|pp=51–2}}.</ref> Montagu was a brother to Lady Alice FitzHugh, great-grandmother of Queen Consort Katherine Parr. Through Lucy's aunt's marriage to Sir Charles Brandon, later Duke of Suffolk, she was a first cousin of Anne Brandon, and her younger sister, Mary.
==At the royal court== Lucy was sent to the court of Henry VIII where she served his fifth consort, Queen Katherine Howard as a Maid of Honour. In 1542, when the Queen was awaiting execution for High Treason after having been found guilty of adultery, Lucy was mentioned in a letter by Imperial Ambassador Eustace Chapuys to his master Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor as having been one of the three ladies in whom the King was showing a marked interest and was considering for his sixth wife.<ref name=":1322">{{Cite book |last=Emerson |first=Kathy Lynn |url=https://www.amazon.com/Whos-Who-Tudor-Women-ebook/dp/B08L5HLHXN |title=A Who's Who of Tudor Women |date=2020-10-11 |publisher=Kathy Lynn Emerson |pages=''Entry for 'Lucy Somerset (1524 – 23 February 1582/3)' '' |language=English}}</ref>
However, in 1543, the King chose for his sixth consort, the Dowager Lady Latimer, Katherine Parr. After her marriage in 1545, Lucy was invited to become lady-in-waiting to Queen Katherine as the new Lady Latimer. Lucy became part of the close knit circle around the queen.
==Marriage and issue== In 1545, she married Queen Katherine Parr's stepson, John Neville, 4th Baron Latimer (c. 1520 – 22 April 1577), making her the new Baroness Latimer. Together they had four daughters who became co-heiresses to John and the barony of Latimer:
* Katherine Neville (1546 – 28 October 1596), married Henry Percy, 8th Earl of Northumberland, by whom she had issue. * Dorothy Neville (1547 – 23 March 1609), married Thomas Cecil, 1st Earl of Exeter, by whom she had issue. * Lucy Neville (died April 1608), married Sir William Cornwallis of Brome Hall, by whom she had issue. * Elizabeth Neville (c. 1550 – 1630), married firstly Sir John Danvers of Dauntsey, by whom she had issue, she married secondly Sir Edmund Carey.
All of their daughter's first marriages above produced children.
Lord Latimer died without sons in 1577; his four daughters became his joint heiresses. The barony became abeyant until 1913, when its abeyance was terminated in favour of Latimer's distant descendant Francis Money-Coutts, 5th Baron Latymer.
==Death== Lucy died on 23 February 1583 and was buried in Hackney as she had requested in her will which was dated 16 November 1582.
==Ancestry== {{ahnentafel |collapsed=yes |align=center |boxstyle_1=background-color: #fcc; |boxstyle_2=background-color: #fb9; |boxstyle_3=background-color: #ffc; |boxstyle_4=background-color: #bfc; |boxstyle_5=background-color: #9fe; |1= 1. '''Lady Lucy Somerset''' |2= 2. Henry Somerset, 2nd Earl of Worcester |3= 3. Elizabeth Browne |4= 4. Charles Somerset, 1st Earl of Worcester |5= 5. Lady Elizabeth Herbert, 3rd Baroness Herbert |6= 6. Sir Anthony Browne |7= 7. Lady Lucy Neville |8= 8. Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset |9= 9. Joan Hill |10= 10. William Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke |11= 11. Lady Mary Woodville |12= 12. Sir Thomas Browne |13= 13. Eleanor FitzAlan |14= 14. John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu |15= 15. Isabel Ingoldesthorpe |16= 16. Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset |17= 17. Lady Eleanor Beauchamp |20= 20. William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke |21= 21. Anne Devereux |22= 22. Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers |23= 23. Jacquetta of Luxembourg |24= 24. Sir Richard Browne |26= 26. Sir Thomas FitzAlan |27= 27. Joan Moyne |28= 28. Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury |29= 29. Alice Montacute, 5th Countess of Salisbury |30= 30. Sir Edmund Ingoldsthorpe |31= 31. Joan Tiptoft }}
==Notes== {{Reflist|colwidth=30em}}
==References== *{{Cite book |title = Magna Carta Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, ed. Kimball G. Everingham |last = Richardson |first = Douglas |location = Salt Lake City |year = 2011 |edition = 2nd |volume = IV |ref = {{sfnref|Richardson IV|2011}} }} {{ISBN|1460992709}}
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Category:Daughters of English earls Category:16th-century English ladies-in-waiting Category:Household of Catherine Howard Category:English baronesses by marriage Category:Wives of knights Category:Household of Catherine Parr