Cecily Neville

Coat of arms of Cecily Neville, Duchess of York

Cecily Neville, Duchess of York (called Proud Cis , born May 3, 1415 - May 31, 1495 ), was an English noblewoman .

She was the daughter of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland , and Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland . Her mother was a granddaughter of King Edward III.

In 1429 she married Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York , leader of the House of York in the Wars of the Roses .

In the course of the Wars of the Roses, two of their sons, Edward IV and Richard III. , King of England .

progeny

• Joan of York (* / † 1438)
• Anne of York (August 10, 1439 - January 1476); ⚭ 1. Henry Holland, 3. Duke of Exeter ( House of Holland ), ⚭ 2. Sir Thomas St. Leger
• Henry of York (born February 10, 1441), died as a child
• Edward IV (April 28, 1442 - April 9, 1483), King of England
• Edmund, Earl of Rutland (May 17, 1443 - December 30, 1460 at the Battle of Wakefield )
• Elizabeth of York (April 22, 1444, † 1503); ⚭ John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk , who was engaged to Queen Mother Margaret Beaufort as a child
• Margaret of York (born May 3, 1446, † November 23, 1503); ⚭ Charles the Bold
• William of York (born July 7, 1447), died as a child
• John of York (born November 7, 1448), died as a child
• George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence (October 21, 1449 - February 18, 1478)
• Thomas of York (* 1451, died as an infant)
• Richard III (October 2, 1452 - August 22, 1485 near Market Bosworth, Leicestershire), King of England
• Ursula of York (* 1454, died as an infant)

literature

• A. License: Cecily Neville. Mother of Kings , Stroud 2014
• Natalie Fryde, Hanna Vollrath : The English kings in the Middle Ages. From William the Conqueror to Richard III . CH Beck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-406-49463-3 ( online at books.google ).
• John Ashdown-Hill: Cecily Neville: Mother of Richard III , Pen and Sword History, 2018

Web links

• Lady Cecily Neville on thepeerage.com
• Entry for Cecily Neville at nationalarchives.gov.uk

Individual evidence

1. ^ John A. Wagner: Encyclopedia of the Wars of the Roses. ABC Clio, 2001, ISBN 1851093583 , p. 172.