Under the
age of majority at the death of his father in 1365 and of his elder brother Robert in 1374, his guardian was
John Neville. In 1383 he received his inherited lands and had already embarked on a military career, being knighted and holding for ransom a number of French prisoners of war. The next year he was
summoned to Parliament as a baron and in 1385 was under the command of
Henry Percy, 1st Earl of Northumberland, fighting the Scots in the defence of
Berwick-upon-Tweed. At the
Battle of Otterburn in August 1388, he was taken prisoner by the Scots, not being freed until October 1389 after payment of a sizeable ransom, toward which both King Richard and the Bishop of Durham contributed. In 1391 he was appointed Captain of Berwick and in 1392 received royal permission to rebuild and
crenellate his castle at
Lumley. In 1394 and 1397 he was on the
commission of the peace for the
North Riding of Yorkshire and in 1397 attended the Parliament at which all members had to swear loyalty to King Richard. In the Parliament of September 1399 he accepted the seizure of power by King Henry IV and the imprisonment of Richard, but in December joined his cousin
Thomas Holland, 1st Duke of Surrey, in the conspiracy known as the
Epiphany Rising, which aimed to murder Henry and restore Richard. He was one of the conspirators captured and beheaded at
Cirencester in January 1400. All his moveable possessions were given to the king's half-brother
John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset, and his estates were forfeited to the crown, apart from lands yielding 100 pounds a year left to support his widow and twelve children. ==Family==