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Aug 20, 2022 · Cecily Neville, Detail from the 15th century Neville Book of Hours; Credit – Wikipedia A great-granddaughter of King Edward III of England , Cecily Neville was the wife of Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York , also a great-grandchild of King Edward III, who was a claimant to the English throne and the leader of the Yorkist faction during ...
Alice Montacute, 5th Countess of Salisbury. Katherine Neville, Baroness Hastings (1442 – between January and 25 March 1504), was a noblewoman and a member of the powerful Neville family of northern England. She was one of the six daughters of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury, and the sister of military commander Richard Neville, 16th ...
Cecily "Proud Cis" Neville was born 31 May 1415 in Raby Castle, Durham, County Durham, England, United Kingdom to Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland (c1364-1425) and Joan Beaufort (1379-1440) and died 31 May 1495 Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom of unspecified causes. She married Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York (1411-1460) 18 October 1424 JL in Yorkshire ...
Cecily Neville. 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. Her political aptitude in avoiding the criticisms levelled at many other women of the age has meant her role in events ...
This is the first scholarly biography of Cecily Neville, duchess of York, the mother of Edward IV and Richard III. J. L. Laynesmith draws on a wealth of rarely considered sources to construct a fresh and revealing portrait of a remarkable woman, the only major protagonist to live right through the Wars of the Roses.
Lady Cicely Neville. Published 2nd August 2015. 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.
Born in 1415 as the youngest of the 1st Earl of Westmorland's 22 children, Cecily Neville led one of the Medieval periods' most captivating lives. Her life was filled with promise and power from the very beginning, and Cecily soon became one of the most powerful women in England. In this episode of Gone Medieval, fact meets fiction!
