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The Duchess died on 31 May 1495 and was buried in the tomb with her husband Richard and their son Edmund at the Church of St Mary and All Saints, Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire, with a papal indulgence. All subsequent English and later British monarchs, beginning with Henry VIII, are descendants of Elizabeth of York, and therefore of Cecily ...
Jul 20, 2023 · On this day in history, 31 May 1495, Cecily Neville died within hours of signing her final will and testament at Berkhamsted Castle. She was buried at the Church of St Mary and All Saints in Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire, a location close to Cecily’s heart.
When Edward IV died at the age of forty, leaving a twelve-year old as heir, the Neville-Woodville rivalry broke out again.
She died at the age of eighty, and was remembered as ‘a woman of small stature, but of much honour and high parentage.’ A version of this article was first published in the Ricardian Bulletin Autumn 2005.
Nov 21, 2019 · Winning at St. Albans in 1455, losing in 1456 (by now to Margaret of Anjou leading the Lancastrian forces), Richard fled to Ireland in 1459 and was declared an outlaw. Cecily with her sons Richard and George were put in the care of Cecily's sister, Anne, the Duchess of Buckingham.
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Apr 6, 2018 · Cecily died on 31 May 1495 having outlived all her sons and all but two of her daughters. She had lived the last years of her life along religious lines – giving rise to a reputation for piety. She had been the mother of two kings and was the grandmother of Henry VII’s queen.
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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.
