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Sep 2, 2020 · Was the proud and pious Cecily guilty of adultery? The following casts doubt on the scandal. – Richard of York, on campaign, was rarely more than a day’s journey from Cecily in Rouen. Did he ever return to visit her, mid-campaign? It was never recorded, but then did it need to be? – Was Edward of Rouen a full term pregnancy?
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.
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
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Jul 20, 2023 · Throughout the bloody tumult and festering family feuds that followed, Cecily and Edward represented a united front for the House of York. When Lancastrian forces re-surged in London and deposed Edward IV, the King and his brother Richard of Gloucester sought refuge in Burgundy, where their sister Margaret and her husband, the Duke of Burgundy, offered the support and funds necessary to launch ...
Oct 8, 2014 · Cecily was born in 1415 with royal lineage that linked her to John of Gaunt, King Henry IV and Edward III of England. By the age of nine she was betrothed to Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York ...
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 was born in 1415, the daughter of a staunchly Lancastrian family, and she was married to Richard ...
Joanna Laynesmith examines claims that Edward IV was a bastard and tells the dramatic story of his mother, Cecily Neville, Duchess of York.
