Cicely de Neville 
Cicely was born on May 3rd, 1415 in Raby Castle, Durham. Cicely's father was Ralph de Neville and her mother was Joan de Beaufort. Her paternal grandparents were John de Neville and Maud de Percy; her maternal grandparents were John Plantagenet of Gaunt and Catherine Swynford Roet. She had eight brothers and four sisters, named Henry, Richard, William, Thomas, Robert, George, Cuthbert, Edward, Eleanor, Anne, Joan and Catherine. She had two half-brothers and nine half-sisters, named John de Neville of, Ralph de Neville of, Alice, Anastasia, Anne, Elizabeth, Maude, Philippa, Margaret, Elizabeth and Mary. She died at the age of 80 on May 31st, 1495 in Berkhamsted Castle, Hertfordshire, England. She was buried in Collegiate Church of Fotheringhay.General Notes
Alias:<ALIA> The Rose of /Raby/
An old English ballad giving history of Cicely Neville, Duchess of York:
"A gracious lady!
What is her name, I thee praie tell me Dame Cecile,
sir. "Whose daughter was she?"
Of the Erle of Westmoreland, I trowe the yengist,
And yet grace fortuned her to be the highest."
According to the Richard III Society
(http://r3.org/fiction/roses/cicely.html): "Cicely, romantically known as
"the Rose of Raby" in reference to her beauty, was the youngest daughter
and twenty-second child of Ralph, Lord Neville of Raby, Earl of
Westmoreland, by his second wife, Joan Beaufort, daughter of John of
Gaunt. As far as can be ascertained, she was born at Raby in 1415, and
was raised with her future husband, Richard Duke of York, who became a
ward of her father in 1415. When Richard left the Earl's household to
assume the duties of his rank, he was betrothed to Cicely...In 1443-4 she
spent so much on apparel (L608, almost the annual income of an earl) that
York had to appoint a special officer to monitor her expenditures. After
1459, events were less happy. In October 1459, after the unremitting
enmity of Queen Margaret and her faction had forced York into open
resistance at Ludlow, the sudden desertion of the Calais garrison forced
York, Cicely's sons Edward and Edmund, her brother Salisbury, and her
nephew Warwick into precipitous flight. Cicely was left behind with the
younger children Margaret, George, and Richard, to face the King's army
and the sack of Ludlow. Kendall surmises that as a woman of courage she
stood at the Ludlow market cross and pleaded for the safety of her
people. The King's forces conveyed Cicely and her children to Coventry
where Parliament attainted her husband and relatives for treason...In the
summer of 1460 she traveled to London...joining York at Hereford "in a
chair (carriage) covered with blue velvet" and drawn by four shite
coursers...Cicely assumed the state and dignity of a reigning sovereign
before York died, and maintained it thereafter...Exemplified by Penman's
The Sunne in Splendor, Rhoda Edwards' The Broken Sword, and the
four-volume biographical series by Eleanor Fairburn, Cicely is a tower of
strength for her sons, raising them in the belief of the high destiny of
the House of York."
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.~ 1240 in Raby, Durham, England d.06 Jun 1271
- b.18 Oct 1262 in Raby, Durham, England d.>18 Apr 1331
- b.~ 1244 in Middleham, Yorkshire, England d.11 Apr 1320 in Coverham, Yorkshire, England
- b.Bet 1290 and 1302 in Castle Raby, Raby, Durham, England d.05 Aug 1367 in Durham, England
- b.1247 in Clavering, Essex, England d.<20 Apr 1310 in Horsford, Norfolk, England
- b.~ 1267 in Warkworth, Northumberland, England d.1329 in Warkworth, Northumberland, England
- b.~ 1251 in Ashby, Leicestershire or Winchester, Hampshire, England d.> 1267
- b.1328 in Raby, Durham, England d.17 Oct 1388 in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, Northumberland, England
- b.~ 1225 in Heleigh Castle, Audley, Staffordshire, England d.11 Jan 1271/72 in Ireland
- b.Bet 1250 and 1267 in Stafford, England d.Mar 1324/25
- b.1227 in Salisbury , Wiltshire, England d.<22 Nov 1299
- b.Bet 1300 and 1304 in Hadley, Stafford, England d.12 Jan 1374/75 in Greystoke, Northumberland, England
- b.Bet 1252 and 1261 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England d.17 Jul 1304 in Welsh Wars
- b.< 1304 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England d.Bet 1328 and 1338 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England
- b.Bet 1262 and 1270 d.7 Feb 1333/34 in Wigmore, Herefordshire, England
- b.1363 in Raby Castle, Raby, Durham, England d.21 Oct 1425 in Raby Castle, Raby, Durham, England
- b.Bet 1228 and 1235 in Alnwick, Northumberland, England d.29 Aug 1272
- b.25 Mar 1273 in Alnwick, Northumberland, or Petworth, Sussex, England d.02 Oct 1314
- b.1251 d.> 1282
- b.6 Feb 1300/01 in Leconfield, Yorkshire, England d.26 Feb 1351/52 in Warkworth, Northumberland, England
- b.3 Feb 1265/66 d.9 Mar 1301/02
- b.~ 1284 d.Jul 1328
- b.~ 1271 in Saluzzo-Cuneo, Italy d.25 Sep 1292 in Arundel, Essex, England
- b.Bet 1335 and 1345 in Warkworth Castle,Ainwick/Alnwick,Northampton,Northumberland, England d.Bef 18 Feb 1377/78
- b.Bet 1242 and 1248 d.06 Nov 1282 in Menai Straits, Anglesey, Wales
- b.01 Apr 1274 in Clifford Castle, Hereford, England d.24 Jun 1314 in Battle of Bannockburn, Bannockburn, Sterling, Scotland
- b.~ 1254 d.14 May 1292
- b.1303 in Appleby, Westmoreland, England d.24 Aug 1365
- b.~ 1245 in Thomond, Ireland d.29 Aug 1287 in Clare, Ireland
- b.~ 1279 d.1 Feb 1323/24
- b.> 1265 d.Bet 1300 and 1309
- b.03 May 1415 in Raby Castle, Durham d.31 May 1495 in Berkhamsted Castle, Hertfordshire, England
- b.17 Jun 1239 in Westminster Palace, London, Middlesex, England d.07 Jul 1307 in Burgh-on-the-Sands,Carlisle,Cumberland,England or Salway Firth,Scotland
- b.25 Apr 1284 in Caernarvon Castle, Caernarvonshire, Wales d.21 Sep 1327 in Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire, England
- b.1246 in Burgos,Castille, Spain d.24 Nov 1290 in Herdeby, near Grantham, Lincolnshire, England
- b.13 Nov 1312 in Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire, England d.21 Jun 1377 in Sheen Palace, Richmond, Surrey, England
- b.1268 in Fontainebleau, France d.29 Nov 1314 in Fontainebleau, France
- b.Bet 1292 and 1295 in Paris, France d.22 Aug 1358 in Castle Rising, Norfolk, England
- b.14 Jan 1271/72 in Bar-sur-Seine, France d.02 Apr 1305 in Vincennes, France
- b.24 Jun 1340 in St, Bavon's Abbey, Ghent, Flandre-Orientale, Belgium d.3 Feb 1398/99 in Leicester Castle, Leicester, Leicestershire, England
- b.Bet 1247 and 1251 in Brabant, Holland d.22 Aug 1304 in Valenciennes, Nord, France
- b.1280 in Hainault, France d.07 Jun 1337 in Valenciennes, Nord, France
- b.1252 in Luxemburg d.06 Apr 1311 in Valenciennes, Nord, France
- b.24 Jun 1311 d.15 Aug 1369
- b.12 Mar 1269/70 in Vincennes, Isle de France, Fontainebleau, France d.15 Dec 1325 in Nogent-le-Raoi/Roy, France
- b.~ 1295 in Valois, France d.7 Mar 1341/42 in Fontenelle, Yonne, France
- b.Bet 1272 and 1274 in Naples, Italy d.31 Dec 1299
- b.~ 1379 in Beaufort Castle/Chateau de Beaufort, Maine-et-Loire, France d.13 Nov 1440 in Howden, Yorkshire, England
- b.~ 1310 d. in Hainault, Hainault, Belgium
- b.25 Nov 1340 in Picardy, Hainault or Somme, France d.10 May 1403 in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England
- b.~ 1315 d. in Picardy, Somme, France
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Cicely and Richard Plantagenet of were married in a religious ceremony before October 18th, 1424. They had eight sons and five daughters, named Edward IV Plantagenet of, Edmund Plantagenet of, William Plantagenet of, John Plantagenet of, George Plantagenet of, Thomas Plantagenet of, Richard III Crookback Plantagenet of, Henry Plantagenet of, Joan Plantagenet of, Anne Plantagenet of, Elizabeth Plantagenet of, Margaret Plantagenet of and Ursula Plantagenet of.
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Children
Anne Plantagenet of York
Anne Plantagenet of was born on August 10th, 1439 in Fotheringhay Castle, Northants, England. She was buried in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, England.
Edward IV Plantagenet of England
Edward IV Plantagenet of was born on April 28th, 1442 in Rouen, France. He died at the age of 40 on April 9th, 1483 in Westminster Palace, London, Middlesex, England. He was buried in St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, England.
Edmund Plantagenet of Rutland
Edmund Plantagenet of was born on May 27th, 1443. He died at the age of 17 in 1460 in Battle of Wakefield.
Elizabeth Plantagenet of York
Elizabeth Plantagenet of was born on April 22nd, 1444. She died at the age of 59 in 1503.
Margaret Plantagenet of York
Margaret Plantagenet of was born on May 3rd, 1446. She died after 1468.
Richard III Crookback Plantagenet of England
Richard III Crookback Plantagenet of was born on October 2nd, 1452 in Fotheringhay Castle, Northants, England. He died at the age of 32 on August 22nd, 1485 in Battle of Bosworth, Leicestershire, England. He was buried in Grey Friars Abbey, Leicester.
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