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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.
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.
Nov 21, 2019 · Here's information about Cecily Neville, Duchess of York, who played a key role in the politics of the British War of the Roses.
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.
Cecily, Duchess of York is one of the best documented and most fascinating women of the fifteenth century. She was, for a time, the most powerful woman in England and she was an astonishing political survivor through many regime changes.
Cecily Neville was an important figure in England's Wars of the Roses. She and her husband, Richard, 3rd duke of York, founded the House of York, and helped two of their sons become kings.
Oct 8, 2014 · Cecily certainly relished in the many luxuries that came with the title as Queen Mother. Her motherly influence affected the future of England, and led to the near extinction of the Yorkist...
Berkhamsted Castle’s last noble resident was Cecily Duchess of York, mother of Edward IV and Richard III. Edward IV granted the castle and manor to her in 1469 and it became her principal home from 1471. By then she was 56 years old and had already led an exceptionally dramatic life.
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.
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.
