Cecily NEVILLE, Duchess Of York

1415 - 1495  (80 years)

• Name	Cecily NEVILLE  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
  Suffix	Duchess Of York
  Birth	3 May 1415	Raby, Durham, ENG
  Gender	Female
  Death	31 May 1495	Berkhampstead, Hertfordshire, ENG   [3, 5]
  Burial	Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire, ENG   [3]
  Person ID	I13539	Ancestrees
  Last Modified	30 Sep 2024

  
  

  Father	Ralph NEVILLE, 1st Earl Of Westmorland,   b. 1363, Raby, Durham, ENG d. 21 Oct 1425, Raby Castle, Durham, England (Age 62 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Joan DE BEAUFORT,   b. Abt 1379, Beaufort Castle, Anjou, France d. 13 Nov 1440, Howden, Yorkshire, England (Age 61 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	3 Feb 1396
  Family ID	F4267	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Richard Richard, Duke Of York,   b. 1411   d. 1460 (Age 49 years)
  _MARRIED	N
  Children	1. Margaret OF BURGUNDY,   b. 3 May 1446   d. 23 Nov 1503 (Age 57 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   2. King Edward PLANTAGENET, Of England IV,   b. 28 Apr 1442, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, Haute-Normandie, France d. 9 Apr 1483, Westminster, London, Middlesex, ENG (Age 40 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   3. George George, Duke Of Clarence,   b. 21 Oct 1449   d. 18 Feb 1478 (Age 28 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]   4. Richard III Richard, King Of England,   b. 1452   d. 1485 (Age 33 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F3829	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Sep 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Lady Cecily had 13 children with her husband, Richard Plantagenet. She lived alone for the last 10 years of her life according to "Wikipedia" online. Her husband and 3 sons had died in the War of the Roses. She was known for her premper and piety. She was called the "Rose of Raby" because she was born in Raby Castle. Parts of her will were forwarded as follows by my Uncle Richard Coate from the Tudor Place homepage. Cecily Neville's final will - made on 31 May 1495 and proved on 27 Aug 1495 at Lambeth says: "...Also I give and bequeath to the kings noble grace all such money as is owing to me of the customs, and two cups of gold. Also I give and bequeath to the queen a cross crosslet of diamonds, a salter with clasps of silver and gilt enamelled, covered with green clothe of gold, and a pyx with the flesh of St Christopher. Also I bequeath to my lady the king's mother a portuos with clasps of gold covered with black cloth of gold. Also I give to my lord prince a bed of arras of the wheel of fortune and tester of the same, a counterpoint of arras and a tappet of arras with the Pope. Also I give to my lord Henry, duke of York three tappets of arras, one of them of the life of St John Baptist another of Mary Magdalene and the third of the passion of our Lord and Saint George..." Cecily gives gifts to Fotheringhay College, the college at Stoke Clare, the nunnery at Syon and her granddaughters (the children of Edward IV) as well as bequests to the de la Pole family (John de la Pole, 2nd Duke of Suffolk, having married her daughter Elizabeth): "...Also I give to my daughter of Suffolk the chair with the covering, all the cushions, horses and harness belonging to the same and all my palfreys. Also I give to my son of Suffolk a clothe of estate and 3 cushions of purple damask clothe of gold.Also I give to my son Humphrey two alter clothes of blue damask embroidered and a vestment of crimson satin for Jesus' masse. Also I give to my son William a traves of white sarcenet, two beds of down and two bolsters of the same. Also I give to my daughter Anne, prioress of Sion, a book of Bonaventure and Hilton in the same in English and a book of the Revelations of Saint Bridget..."

  
  

• Sources

  [S732] Castell, J., Tudor Place Homepage (http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/index.html). [S858] Ancestry.com, Web: Netherlands, GenealogieOnline Trees Index, 1000-2015, (Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc. Date:2014 Place:Provo, UT, USA;), 1,9289::0. [S466] Richard Coate to L. Dudick Email letters dated 1999 + at rcoate@earthlink.net. [S224] Internet Site, Presidential Lineages. [S282] Wikipedia Article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page, c2006). [S169] Pat Moran, Moran Exodus from Offaly (Decorah, Iowa: Amundsen Pub. Co., 1995).