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May 3, 2017 · On May 3, 2017 By RSB In The House of York. One of my favorite figures from the Wars of the Roses is Cecily Neville, Duchess of York who came very close to becoming England’s queen through her husband and ended up mother to two, Edward IV and Richard III.
J. L. Laynesmith, a respected historian of English royal and noble women of the fifteenth century, has remedied that lack with a richly detailed book that avoids the temptation to retell the Wars of the Roses from the duchess's perspective and instead undertakes a scholarly reconstruction of Cecily's whole life.
May 3, 2023 · May 3 – Cecily Neville, mother of two kings. On this day in history, 3rd May 1415, Cecily Neville, Duchess of York, was born at Raby Castle. Cecily is known as the matriarch of the House of York because her children included King Edward IV and King Richard III.
Aug 20, 2022 · Cecily Neville, Duchess of York died on May 31, 1495, aged 80, at Berkhamsted Castle in Hertfordshire, England. She had survived her husband Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York by thirty-five years, and was buried with him and their son Edmund, Earl of Rutland at the Church of Saint Mary and All Saints in Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire, England.
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.
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.
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Lady Cicely Neville. Cicely (or Cecily) Neville, was one of the vast brood of children of Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmorland, by his second wife, Joan, daughter of John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. Cicely was born and brought up in the great Neville stronghold of Raby Castle, Durham.