Cecily Neville, Duchess of Warwick

For the Duchess of Warwick's aunt, see Cecily Neville, Duchess of York

Lady Cecily Neville
Duchess of Warwick Countess of Worcester
Spouse(s)	Henry de Beauchamp, 1st Duke of Warwick m. 1434; dec. 1446 John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester m. 1449; wid. 1450
Issue Anne de Beauchamp, 15th Countess of Warwick
Noble family	House of Neville
Father	Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury
Mother	Alice Montacute, 5th Countess of Salisbury
Born	c. 1425[1][2]
Died	26 July 1450[3]

Cecily Neville, 1st Duchess of Warwick, 1st Countess of Worcester (c.1425 – 26 July 1450) was a daughter of Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury and Alice Montacute, 5th Countess of Salisbury. Her siblings included Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick; John Neville, 1st Marquess of Montagu; George Neville, (Archbishop of York and Chancellor of England); Katherine Neville, Baroness Hastings; and Alice Neville, Baroness FitzHugh.

She was most likely named after her paternal aunt, Cecily Neville, Duchess of York.^[2] Her first cousins included Anne of York, Duchess of Exeter; Edmund, Earl of Rutland; Elizabeth of York, Duchess of Suffolk; Margaret of York; George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Clarence; and Kings Edward IV and Richard III.

She first married Henry de Beauchamp, 1st Duke of Warwick, and the only King of the Isle of Wight (as well as of Jersey and Guernsey). Their only daughter was Lady Anne Beauchamp, who was allowed to succeed as suo jure 15th Countess of Warwick. Upon the death of the 15th Countess, the title was inherited by her paternal aunt, also named Lady Anne. Lady Anne married Cecily's brother, Richard Neville, who would become jure uxoris 16th Earl of Warwick.

Her second husband was John Tiptoft, 1st Earl of Worcester. They had no children.

She is buried with her first husband, the Duke of Warwick, in Tewkesbury Abbey.^[4]

Ancestry

Ancestors of Cecily Neville, Duchess of Warwick

16. Ralph Neville, 2nd Baron Neville de Raby               8. John Neville, 3rd Baron Neville de Raby                       17. Alice Audley               4. Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland                             18. Henry de Percy, 2nd Baron Percy               9. Hon. Maud Percy                       19. Idoine de Clifford               2. Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury                                   20. Edward III of England               10. John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster                       21. Philippa of Hainault               5. Lady Joan Beaufort                             22. Payne Roet               11. Katherine Swynford                       23.               1. Cecily Neville, Duchess of Warwick                                         24. John de Montacute, 1st Baron Montacute               12. John Montacute, 3rd Earl of Salisbury                       25. Margaret de Monthermer, 3rd Baroness de Monthermer               6. Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury                             26. Sir Adam Francis               13. Maud Francis                       27. Alice Champneis               3. Alice Neville, 5th Countess of Salisbury                                   28. Thomas Holland, 1st Earl of Kent               14. Thomas Holland, 2nd Earl of Kent                       29. Joan, Princess of Wales, 4th Countess of Kent               7. Lady Eleanor Holland                             30. Richard Fitzalan, 10th Earl of Arundel               15. Lady Alice FitzAlan                       31. Eleanor of Lancaster

References

1. The eldest child of the Salisbury's, Lady Joan (later Countess of Arundel) was born before 2 November 1424. Lady Cecily, the second child, was followed by Richard Neville (later, 16th Earl of Warwick) in 1428. Cecily is noted to be born shortly after Joan in Baldwin's The Kingmaker's Sisters.
2. David Baldwin. The Kingmaker’s Sisters: Six Powerful Women in the Wars of the Roses, The History Press; First Edition, 1 August 2009.
3. Michael Hicks. Warwick, the Kingmaker, John Wiley & Sons, 15 April 2008. pg 47.
4. G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume XII/2, page 845.