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- From birth, Cecily Neville’s veins ran with the sapphire-blood of European royalty: she was a great-granddaughter of King Edward III of England and the daughter of Ralph Neville, sixth baron Neville of Raby, whose marriage in 1397 to John of Gaunt’s illegitimate daughter Joan Beaufort (born to the King’s third wife and former mistress, Katherine Swynford) paved the way for her father to acquire the earldom of Westmorland.
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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 10, 2021 · Cecily Neville was born on 3 May 1415, the daughter of Ralph Earl Westmoreland and his second wife, Joan Beaufort. T he blood in her veins was royal, though stained by bastardy. Cecily’s mother Joan was the natural daughter of Edward III’s third son, John of Gaunt.
May 4, 2021 · The initiative to wrest the throne of England from King Henry VI was that of Richard of York, with whom Cecily seems to have been in full agreement. Both Richard and Cecily had an impressive quantity of royal blood in their veins to make it a viable claim for themselves and their children.
May 5, 2015 · Cecily Neville herself was the eighteenth child (!) of Ralph Neville and his second wife, Joan Beaufort--who was the daughter of John of Gaunt, duke of Lancaster, and thus through this connection (Gaunt was the son of King Edward III), Cecily had royal blood.
Sep 6, 2020 · Yet, with royal blood in her own veins through her mother Joan, Countess of Westmorland, daughter of John of Gaunt, Cecily stood at the centre of a very powerful family alliance of Nevilles and...
Jul 10, 2015 · With his death, the wardships in royal hands came under reassessment and Ralph Neville purchased the guardianship of Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York for three thousand marks. Richard came to live at Raby Castle in 1423. In 1424, Cecily and Richard were betrothed. Cecily was nine and Richard was thirteen.
