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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.
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Nov 2, 2020 · In the course of her lifetime Cecily of York was due to become Queen of Scotland. Instead none of her three marriages was to a King, and her third one scandalised the English court!
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.
Jul 10, 2021 · Writing a novel about the matriarch of the house of York, prompted Annie Garthwaite to consider what makes Cecily Neville one of the 15th century’s most compelling women, the role she played in her family’s dynastic struggles, and why – at last – historians and novelists are fixing their gaze upon her. —.
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Jul 20, 2023 · Cecily died on 31 May 1495, and was buried with a ‘papal indulgence tied around her neck’, intended to help shepherd the Duchess into the kingdom of heaven. She is buried in a tomb beside her husband Richard and their son, Edmund, who was killed alongside his father, in Northamptonshire.