Mary Fiennes, Baroness Dacre (1524 – after 1565). Daughter of George Neville (also Nevill), 5th Baron Bergavenny by his third wife, Lady Mary Stafford, youngest daughter of Edward Stafford, 3rd Duke of Buckingham.
She married three times. First in 1536, with Thomas Fiennes, 9th Baron Dacre (c. 1515–1541). Lord Dacre 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 at age 15 on 25 August 1553.
In 1546 Lady Dacre married John Wooton or Wotton of St. Clere's manor in North Tuddenham, Norfolk. After his death, she married Francis Thursby of Congham in Norfolk.
Detail from a portrait by unknown artist, c1541–1558 
Mary Neville and her son Gregory Fiennes by Hans Eworth, 1559 
Detail from a portrait by Hans Eworth
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