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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.
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.
Jul 26, 2021 · Annie Garthwaite's debut novel, Cecily, is an acclaimed retelling of the life of Cecily Neville, the remarkable woman who was the mother of Edward IV and Richard III. Annie describes her 40-year journey to publication, which started with her mum's historical novels and an inspiring teacher.
Jul 14, 2024 · Annie Garthwaite’s second novel, The King’s Mother, picks up the story of Cecily Neville to follow the purposeful power plays of four rival royal mothers during the 15th-century Wars of the Roses. Here she reflects on their careers – and on her own determination to bring their stories to the fore.
Jul 10, 2015 · Cecily Neville was one of the key women of the civil conflict in England that came to be known as the Wars of the Roses. A matriarch of the Yorkist dynasty, she was the mother of two kings of England.
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.
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Apr 6, 2018 · 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…
