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Sep 2, 2020 · Proud Cis has become a recognisable epithet. Yet scandal raised its ugly head. When her husband was commanding the English forces in France and Cecily was based in Rouen, Cecily is said to have had an affair with a common archer, from her husband’s company, called Blaybourne. The result of this affair was the birth of an illegitimate son ...
Jul 20, 2023 · ‘The Rose of Raby’ From birth, Cecily Neville’s veins ran with the sapphire-blood of European royalty: she was a great-granddaughter of King Edward III of England and the daughter of Ralph Neville, sixth baron Neville of Raby, whose marriage in 1397 to John of Gaunt’s illegitimate daughter Joan Beaufort (born to the King’s third wife and former mistress, Katherine Swynford) paved the ...
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 ...
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Apr 6, 2018 · Cecily Neville, Duchess of York. Cecily, the youngest child of Joan Beaufort and Ralph Neville, was born on 3 May 1415 at Raby Castle. Like the rest of her siblings an advantageous marriage was arranged for her by her parents. She was possibly married by 1427 to Richard of York when she reached the age of twelve certainly she had become ...
Jul 10, 2021 · Cecily Neville was born on 3 May 1415, the daughter of Ralph Earl Westmoreland and his second wife, Joan Beaufort. The blood in her veins was royal, though stained by bastardy. Cecily’s mother Joan was the natural daughter of Edward III’s third son, John of Gaunt. Though John eventually did marryJoan’s mother, he took a while to do it.
Name variations: Cecily, duchess of York; Lady Cecily Neville; Cecily of York; the Rose of Raby. Born on May 3, 1415, in Raby Castle, Durham, England; died on May 31, 1495, at Berkhempsted or Berkhamsted Castle, Hertfordshire, England; daughter of Joan Beaufort (1379–1440) and Sir Ralph Neville of Raby; married Richard, 3rd duke of York, Lord ...
Cecily Neville, Duchess of York (Mother) 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.’.
