Earl of Westmorland
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Earl of Westmorland is a title that has been created twice in the Peerage of England. The title was first created in 1397 for Ralph Neville. It was forfeited in 1571 by Charles Neville, 6th Earl of Westmorland, for leading the Rising of the North. It was revived in 1624 in favour of Sir Francis Fane, whose mother, Mary Neville, was a descendant of a younger son of the first Earl. The first Earl of the first creation had already become Baron Neville de Raby, and that was a subsidiary title for his successors. The current Earl holds the subsidiary title Baron Burghersh (1624).
Fane shield in Fulbeck.
Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland, with his wife Mary Mildmay.
Fane De Salis Coat of arms
Mildmay Fane (1689-1715) by Alexis-Simon Belle
Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland
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Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland Earl Marshal, was an English nobleman of the House of Neville.
Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, wearing the Lancastrian Collar of Esses; detail of his effigy at Staindrop Church, County Durham
Alabaster effigy of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland with his two wives, Staindrop Church, County Durham, considered the finest sepulchral monument in the north of England. On his tunic he displays the arms of Neville; his head rests on a helm atop which is the bull's head crest of Neville
Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick (1428–1471), "The Kingmaker", a grandson of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland, and Joan Beaufort. On his shield he displays his maternal arms of Montacute, but displays the Neville bull's head crest at sinister and stands on the same Neville heraldic beast
Image: Wife 2