Katherine Neville or Catherine de Neville (born c. 1397 – died after 1483) was the eldest daughter of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland (1364–1425) and Joan Beaufort

Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland

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 (c. 1379-1440), daughter of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster

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 by his mistress (later, 3rd wife) Catherine de Roet

Katherine Swynford

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.

Katherine was married

Marriage

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 firstly to John Mowbray

John de Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk

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, 2nd Duke of Norfolk

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 (1392–1432). Their only known child was:

• John de Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk
  John de Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk
  Sir John de Mowbray, 3rd Duke of Norfolk KG, Earl Marshal was an important player in the Wars of the Roses.He was the son of John Mowbray, 2nd Duke of Norfolk and Lady Katherine Neville...
  
   (1415–1461).

Katherine married secondly, Thomas Strangeways (c. 1395-before 1442) - they had 2 daughters:

• Joan Strangeway, married Sir William Willoughby.
• Catherine Strangeway

She married thirdly John, Viscount Beaumont, who was killed in 1460.

Her fourth and last marriage was infamous, and known by contemporaries as the 'diabolical marriage' - she married John Woodville

John Woodville

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, brother of Elizabeth Woodville

Elizabeth Woodville

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, Edward IV's queen. He would have been barely twenty at the time of their marriage - she in her mid to late sixties. Yet she survived even him as he was executed in 1469 during the brief period of time that her nephew - Richard

Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick

Richard Neville KG, jure uxoris 16th Earl of Warwick and suo jure 6th Earl of Salisbury and 8th and 5th Baron Montacute , known as Warwick the Kingmaker, was an English nobleman, administrator, and military commander...

, Earl of Warwick

Earl of Warwick

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(The 'Kingmaker') had usurped the authority of the crown.
She was still alive in 1483, having survived all the descendents of her first marriage.