Cecily (Neville) of York (1415 - 1495)

Born 3 May 1415 in Raby Castle, Durham, England

Ancestors

Wife of Richard (York) of York KG — married before 18 Oct 1424 in Conisbrough, West Riding, Yorkshire, England

Descendants

Died 31 May 1495 at age 80 in Berkhamsted Castle, Hertfordshire, England

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Biography

Cecily of York, "the Rose of Raby"^[1]

Duchess of York

Birth: 31 May 1415 Raby Castle, Durham

Parents

Ralph NEVILLE, 1st Earl of Westmoreland and Joan BEAUFORT^[1]

Marriage and Issue

m. Richard of York BEF 18 OCT 1424 YKS Issue:

• Anne
• Henry
• Edward IV of England
• Edmund
• Elizabeth
• Margaret
• William
• John
• George, Duke of Clarence
• Thomas
• Richard III of England
• Ursula

Death and Burial

(Royal Ancestry) During the reign of her sons, Kings Edward IV and Richard III, she resided mainly at Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire and Baynard's Castle, London. She died at Berkhamstead Castle, Hertfordshire 31 May 1495. She left a will dated 1 April 1495, proved 27 August 1495. Duke Richard and his wife were buried on the north side of the high altar in the church of Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire.

(Royal Tombs of Medieval England) On 21 June 1476 Edward IV had the bodies of his father Richard, Duke of York and brother Edmund, Earl of Rutland exhumed from the priory at Pontefract Yorkshire, and reinterred in the church at Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire. Duke Richard was buried in the choir of the church and Earl Edmund in the Lady Chapel. In 1496 Duke Richard's wife, Cecily Neville was buried at Fotheringhay beside her husband as instructed by her will made the same year. In 1538 Fotheringhay surrendered to the crown in Henry VIII's Dissolution of the Monasteries and by the 1550s the choir was a ruin. In 1573 the choir was demolished, and the Yorkist remains reinterred beneath neo-classical monuments at the east end of the old nave. Richard, Duke of York and Cecily Neville lie north of the high altar, with Edmund, Earl of Rutland and Edward, Duke of York to the south.

Sources

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1} Milner, 1904, p.14

See also:

• Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), Vol IV, page 129.
• "Edward IV: October 1472, Second Roll," in Parliament Rolls of Medieval England, ed. Chris Given-Wilson, Paul Brand, Seymour Phillips, Mark Ormrod, Geoffrey Martin, Anne Curry and Rosemary Horrox (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2005), British History Online, accessed March 8, 2021, http://www.british-history.ac.uk/no-series/parliament-rolls-medieval/october-1472-second-roll.
• Cecily Duchess of York, 1495. Church of England. Province of Canterbury. Prerogative Court; Doctors' Commons; Nichols, John Gough, 1806-1873; Bruce, John, 1802-1869. 'Wills from Doctors' Commons, A selection from the wills of eminent persons proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, 1495-1695'. Published by [Westminster] Printed for the Camden Society, 1863. archive.org. Accessed 28 Sep 2021.
• Douglas Richardson, Royal Ancestry: A Study in Colonial and Medieval Families, 5 vols., ed. Kimball G. Everingham (Salt Lake City, Utah: the author, 2013), Vol. V, pp. 452-460
• Royal Tombs of Medieval England, M. Duffy, 2003, pp. 241-242
• Milner, E. (1904). Records of the Lumleys of Lumley Castle. Edith Benham, ed. London: George Bell & Sons. Google Books.