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Her paternal grandparents were John Neville, 3rd Baron Neville de Raby, and Maud Percy, daughter of Henry de Percy, 2nd Baron Percy. Her maternal grandparents were John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, and his third wife Katherine Swynford. John of Gaunt was the third surviving son of King Edward III of England and Philippa of Hainault.
May 3, 2023 · Cecily's maternal grandparents were John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, and his third wife Katherine Swynford. Sometime shortly before October 1429, when she was 14, Cecily married eighteen-year-old Richard, Duke of York, only son of Richard of Conisbrough, 4th earl of Cambridge, and Anne Mortimer.
Cecily Neville was the great-granddaughter of one king, Edward III of England (and his wife Philippa of Hainault); the wife of a would-be king, Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York; and the mother of two kings: Edward IV and Richard III, Through Elizabeth of York, she was the great-grandmother of Henry VIII and an ancestor to the Tudor rulers.
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.
She lived long enough to see the births of four of her great-grandchildren with the new king and queen, including the future Henry VIII. In fact, all monarchs who have sat on the throne since Henry VIII have been direct descendants of Cecily Neville.
Aug 20, 2022 · Cecily’s paternal grandparents were John Neville, 3rd Baron Neville de Raby, and Maud Percy, daughter of Henry de Percy, 2nd Baron Percy. Her maternal grandparents were John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster , and his third wife and former mistress Katherine Swynford .
Cecily Neville's fortunes did not appear to be particularly promising when her life began in 1415. She was the tenth child of Ralph Neville, Earl of Westmorland, and his wife Joan Beaufort, a granddaughter of Edward III (she was Westmorland's eighteenth child overall).
