Cecily Neville: Mother of Richard III

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Introduction Confronting the problems
Chapter 1 Cecily’s Family Background
Chapter 2 Cecily’s Childhood and Marriage
Chapter 3 Cecily’s List of Children
Chapter 4 Wife and Mother in France
Chapter 5 Wife and Mother in Ireland
Chapter 6 The End of Maternity
Chapter 7 Through the Menopause, into Custody
Chapter 8 The Blue Velvet Carriage to Bereavement
Chapter 9 The First Reign of Edward IV
Chapter 10 Cecily’s Sons in Conflict
Chapter 11 The Blaybourne Bastardy Myth
Chapter 12 The Second Reign of Edward IV
Plate section
Chapter 13 The Accession of Richard III
Chapter 14 The Reign of Henry VII
Chapter 15 Cecily’s Bequests, and what they Reveal
Chapter 16 Cecily’s DNA and her Dental Record
Appendix 1 Alphabetical List of the Manors granted by Edward IV to his mother in 1461
Appendix 2 Members of the Entourage of Cecily Neville
Appendix 3 The Fifteenth-century Abbots of Colchester
Appendix 4 Lucy Fraser, ‘Synopsis of Cicely; or the Rose of Raby. An Historical Novel (1795)’
Appendix 5 The allegiance of Cecily’s siblings in the 1450s and beyond
Appendix 6 Where Cecily appears to have been living or staying on specific dates
Acknowledgements
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index
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