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May 30, 2024 · Cecily Neville, Duchess of York died at Berkhamsted Castle, Hertfordshire. She was the daughter of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland and his second wife, Joan Beaufort. Cecily married Richard, Duke of York and was mother to two Yorkist Kings of England - King Edward IV and King Richard III.
Cicely (or Cecily) Neville, Duchess of York, was the mother of Edward IV and Richard III, grandmother of Elizabeth of York and great-grandmother to Henry VIII.
May 31, 2024 · #otd in 1495 died Cecily Neville, duchess of York. This is her coat of arms in St Peter's church, Berkhamsted. It is quite hidden in the left window of the west front and it took us a good while to find, but there it is. St Peter's was closely associated with nearby Berkhamsted castle, Cecily's main residence since 1469.
Jul 20, 2023 · Eighty years old at the time of her death, Cecily Neville lived to see the accession of two of her sons to the English throne (both of whom she outlived), the epochal fall of the Plantagenets, and the rise of the Tudor dynasty, of which she was an ancestress. Margaret of York, Duchess of Burgundy.
Cecily Neville (3 May 1415 – 31 May 1495) was an English noblewoman, the wife of Richard, Duke of York (1411–1460), and the mother of two kings of England — Edward IV and Richard III.
Cecily Neville (1415-1495) was one of the most powerful women in fifteenth-century England, the wife of Richard Duke of York, mother of Edward IV and Richard III, grandmother of Edward V and Elizabeth of York.
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Mar 3, 2006 · Such allegations of bastardy among political rivals were nothing new, but what is enigmatic about the 1469 rebellion is the role played by the woman whose virtue had been besmirched: the King’s mother, who was the famously pious Cecily Neville, Duchess of York.
