Cecily Neville, "Sweet Cis"

1415 - 1495  (80 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Cecily Neville  [1, 2, 3]
  Suffix	"Sweet Cis"
  Birth	3 May 1415	Raby Castle, Raby With Keverstone, Staindrop, Durham, England   [1, 3, 4, 5]
  Gender	Female
  Death	31 May 1495	Berkhamsted Castle, Hertfordshire, England   [1, 2, 3, 5]
  Burial	Collegiate Church of Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire.
  Siblings	6 Siblings
  + 1. Earl Richard de Neville,   b. Abt 1400, Raby, Durham, England d. Dec 1460, Wakefield, near Pontrefact Castle, Yorkshire, England  (Age 60 years) ▻ Alice de Montagu,  m. Bef Feb 1420-1421 ;   Mary de Ferrers + 2. Anne de Neville,   b. Abt 1411, Westmoreland, England d. 20 Sep 1480  (Age 69 years) ▻ Earl Humphrey Stafford,  m. Bef 18 Oct 1424 ;   Baron Walter Blount,  m. 1467 + 3. Baron George de Neville,   b. Aft 1400   d. 30 Dec 1469  (Age 68 years) ▻ Elizabeth de Beauchamp,  m. Bef 1436 + 4. Baron Edward de Neville,   b. 1417, Raby With Keverstone, Staindrop, Durham, England d. 1476  (Age 59 years) ▻ Baroness Elizabeth de Beauchamp,  m. Bef 18 Oct 1424 ;   Catharine Howard,  m. 15 Oct 1448 + 5. Cecily Neville, "Sweet Cis",   b. 3 May 1415, Raby Castle, Raby With Keverstone, Staindrop, Durham, England d. 31 May 1495, Berkhamsted Castle, Hertfordshire, England  (Age 80 years) ▻ Duke Richard of York,  m. Bef 18 Oct 1424 + 6. Catherine de Neville   d. Aft Jan 1478 ▻ John de Mowbray,  m. 12 Jan 1411 ;   Thomas Strangeways,  m. Abt 1423 ;   John de Beaumont,  m. Aft 1442 ;   John Wydeville,  m. Abt 1465 + 7. Eleanor Neville,   b. Aft 1396, Raby, Durham, England d. 1463  (Age 66 years) ▻ Earl Henry de Percy, VIII,  m. Aft Oct 1414
  Person ID	I5965	Geneagraphie | Ahnen BvS
  Last Modified	19 Mar 2010

  
  

  Father	Earl Ralph de Neville,   b. 1363, Raby, Durham, England d. 21 Oct 1425, Raby Castle, Raby With Keverstone, Staindrop, Durham, England (Age 62 years)
  Mother	Joan de Beaufort,   b. Abt 1379, Beaufort Castle, Anjou, France d. 13 Nov 1440, Howden, Yorkshire, England (Age 61 years)
  Marriage	Bef 29 Nov 1396	England
  Family ID	F2639	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Duke Richard of York,   b. 21 Sep 1411, Castle, Conisborough, Yorkshire, England d. 30 Dec 1460, Battle of Wakefield, Yorkshire, England (Age 49 years)
  Marriage	Bef 18 Oct 1424	Yorkshire, England   [6]
  It has been alleged that Edward was not son of the Duke of York but was his mother's bastard, having been conceived when the Duke was away on a military campaign. After Edward's brother & successor King Richard III had been killed at Bosworth (22.08.1485), the crown passed through Edward's daughter Elizabeth into the Tudor family, thereby ending the Wars of the Roses. Had Richard won at Bosworth and neither he nor his nephew Edward of Warwick had an heir, the succession might have passed through their niece Margaret Plantagenet who was married (after Bosworth) to Sir Richard Pole.
  Children	+ 1. Anne of York,   b. 10 Aug 1439, Castle, Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire, England d. 4 Jan 1476 (Age 36 years)   2. Henry of York,   b. 10 Feb 1440-1441, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England d. Yes, date unknown + 3. King Edward IV of York,   b. 28 Apr 1442, Rouen, Normandie, France d. 9 Apr 1483, Westminster Palace, London, England (Age 40 years)   4. Earl Edmund of Rutland,   b. 17 May 1443, Rouen, Normandie, France d. 30 Dec 1460 (Age 17 years) + 5. Elizabeth of York,   b. 22 Apr 1444, Rouen, Normandie, France d. 16 Nov 1503-3 May 1504, Wingfield, Suffolk, England (Age 60 years)   6. Margaretha of York,   b. 3 May 1446, Castle, Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire, England d. 23 Nov 1503, Mechelen, Antwerpen, België (Age 57 years)   7. William of York,   b. 7 Jul 1447, Castle, Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire, England d. Yes, date unknown   8. John of York,   b. 7 Nov 1448, Neyte, Worchestershire, England d. Yes, date unknown + 9. Duke George of Clarence,   b. 21 Oct 1449, Dublin, Leinster, Éire d. 18 Feb 1477-1478, Tower of London, Tower Hill, London, Middlesex, England (Age 28 years)   10. Thomas of York,   b. 1450-1451, Castle, Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire, England d. 1453 (Age 2 years) + 11. King Richard III Plantagenet,   b. 2 Oct 1452, Castle, Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire, England d. 22 Aug 1485, Bosworth field (Age 32 years)   12. Ursula Plantagenet,   b. Abt 1454, Castle, Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire, England d. Yes, date unknown
  Family ID	F2626	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	19 Mar 2010

  
  

• Notes

  Died as a Benedictine nun. Buried beside her husband & son Edmund.

  
  

• Sources

  [S8] Ernst-Friedrich Kraentzler, Ancestry of Richard Plantagenet & Cecily de Neville, (published by author 1978 , , Repository: J.H. Garner). [S15] Desmond Seward, Wars of the Roses, (Penguin Books, New York 1995 ,), The House of York genealogy table (Reliability: 0). [S4] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Families, (rev. ed, Pimlico Random House, London 1989, 1996 , , Repository: J.H. Garner), p 134 (Reliability: 0). [S14] Brian Tompsett, University of Hull Royal Database (England), (copyright 1994, 1995, 1996 , , Repository: WWW, University of Hull, Hull, UK HU6 7RX bct@tardis.ed.ac.uk). [S158] Sharon Kay Penman, Sunne in Splendour, (Ballantine Books, New York, 1982 ,). [S4] Alison Weir, Britain's Royal Families, (rev. ed, Pimlico Random House, London 1989, 1996 , , Repository: J.H. Garner), p 133 (Reliability: 0).