Cecily Neville: Mother of Kings

by Amy Licence

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  List of Illustrations

  1. Henry V. Courtesy of Ripon Cathedral.

  2. Henry V and Catherine of Valois. Courtesy of Jonathan Reeve, JR1729b90fp85 14001500.

  3. Raby Castle, the Neville Gate. Courtesy of Kristie Dean.

  4. Raby Castle. Courtesy of Kristie Dean.

  5. Rood screen in Staindrop church. Courtesy of Kristie Dean.

  6. Effigy of Joan Beaufort. Courtesy of Kristie Dean.

  7. Julian of Norwich. Courtesy of Anne Lord.

  8. Falcon and Fetterlock. Courtesy of Simon Leach.

  9. Falcon and Fetterlock misericord, Ludlow church. Courtesy of Anne Lord.

  10. Ruins of Fotheringhay Castle. Courtesy of David Noble.

  11. St Mary and All Saints’ church, Fotheringhay. Courtesy of Amanda Miller at Amanda’s Arcadia.

  12. Window, Fotheringhay church. Courtesy of Simon Leach.

  13. Richard, Duke of York, in Ludlow church. Courtesy of Anne Lord.

  14. Rouen Cathedral. Courtesy of Geoff Licence.

  15. Medieval Rouen. Courtesy of Paul Fairbrass.

  16. Medieval Rouen. Courtesy of Geoff licence.

  17. Rouen’s Gros Horloge. Courtesy of Geoff Licence.

  18. Dublin Castle. Courtesy of Alan Jue Liu.

  19. Ludlow Castle. Courtesy of Philip Blayney.

  20. Ludlow Castle. Courtesy of Philip Blayney.

  21. Ludlow Castle. Samuel Scott, c. 1765–69. Courtesy of the Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection.

  22. Henry VI. Courtesy of Jonathan Reeve, JR1561folio6

  23. Millennium Bridge. Courtesy of Alan Lavish.

  24. Edward IV. Bernard Lens, 1732. Courtesy of the Yale Center for British Art.

  25. Elizabeth Woodville. Courtesy of Ripon Cathedral.

  26. Caister Castle. Michael ‘Angelo’ Rooker, n.d. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

  27. Tonbridge Castle. Amy Licence.

  28. Tonbridge Castle. Amy Licence.

  29. Tomb of Joan Neville. Courtesy of Amanda Miller at Amanda’s Arcadia.

  30. Plaque for the Paston House. Courtesy of Paul Fairbrass.

  31. The site of the Paston House. Courtesy of Paul Fairbrass.

  32. Sandwich, Kent. Courtesy of Jane Ring.

  33. Berkhamsted Castle. Courtesy of Alan Lavish.

  34. Berkhamsted Castle well. Courtesy of Alan Lavish.

  35. Windsor Castle. Artist unknown, seventeenth century. Courtesy of the Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection.

  36. Edward V. Courtesy of David Baldwin.

  37. Princes in the Tower. William Marshall Craig, c. 1820. Courtesy of the Yale Center for British Art.

  38. Richard III. Courtesy of Ripon Cathedral.

  39. Anne Neville. Courtesy of Jonathan Reeve, JR JR1731b90fp109C 14001500

  40. Elizabeth of York. Courtesy of Amanda Miller at Amanda’s Arcadia. Thanks also to the Reverend Canon of Leicestershire.

  41. Tomb of Thomas Bourchier. Amy Licence.

  42. Richard, Duke of Gloucester, and the Lady Anne by Edwin Austin Abbey. Courtesy of the Yale University Art Gallery, Edwin Austin Abbey Memorial Collection.

  43. Madonna and Child, Fordwich church. Amy Licence.

  44. Margaret Beaufort. Courtesy of Elizabeth Norton.

  45. Henry VII and Henry VIII by Holbein. Courtesy of Elizabeth Norton.

  46. Fotheringhay memorial. Courtesy of Simon Leach.

  47. Raby Castle in the 1930s. Courtesy of Keith.

  Acknowledgements

  Thanks go to the team at Amberley: Jonathan, Nicola, Nicki, Alice, Christian and others for their continuing support and promotion. Thank you also to Derek Bull for confirming my belief that Cecily deserved a book of her own. I have also been particularly lucky to have made some wonderfully helpful and knowledgeable friends online, who have generously shared their thoughts and time with me, in particular the members of my Edward IV discussion group. Thanks also to all my family, to my husband Tom for his l
ove and support; also the Hunts, for Sue’s generosity and John’s local knowledge and continual supply of interesting and unusual books. Thanks again to Paul Fairbrass for his photographs and support. Most of all, it is for my mother for her invaluable proofreading skills and for my father for his enthusiasm. This is the result of the books they read me, the museums they took me to as a child and the love and imagination with which they encouraged me.