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Cecily Neville, Duchess of Warwick, Countess of Worcester (c.1425 – 26 July 1450) was a daughter of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury and Alice Montacute, 5th Countess of Salisbury.
Cecily was the aunt of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, one of the leading peers and military commanders of his generation, a great-aunt of queen consort Anne Neville, who married her son Richard III, and a great-great-great-aunt of queen consort Catherine Parr, sixth wife of her great-grandson, King Henry VIII .
Cecily was working with her nephew Warwick to find a wife for Edward IV, suitable for his status as the king. They were negotiating with the French king when Edward revealed that he had secretly married the commoner and widow, Elizabeth Woodville, in 1464. Both Cecily Neville and her brother reacted with anger.
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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.
by Dr Joanna Laynesmith. One of Richard’s most unnatural crimes, according to Tudor propaganda, was his false accusation that his own mother, Cecily Neville, was an adultress. Polydore Vergil asserted that she ‘complanyd afterward in sundry places to right many noblemen…of that great injury.’.
Oct 8, 2014 · 8th October 2014. <! [CDATA [ Our journey of influential queen mothers continues with Cecily Neville, the mother of two King’s of England. Cecily was born in 1415 with royal lineage that linked...
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. ‘The Rose of Raby’.
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