Cecily PLANTAGENET, of York, Vicountess Welles

1469 - 1507  (38 years)

• Name	Cecily PLANTAGENET  [1, 2]
  Suffix	of York, Vicountess Welles
  Birth	20 Mar 1469	Westminster Palace, Westminster, Middlesex, England   [3]
  Gender	Female
  Alt-Death Loc	Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England   [3]
  House	York
  Name	Cecelia
  Death	24 Aug 1507	Sandown, Isle of Wight   [3]
  Burial	Quarr Abbey, Isle of Wight, England   [3]
  	An alternate burial location is the friary at Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, England
  Person ID	I117088	Ancestral Trails
  Last Modified	5 Aug 2024

  
  

  Father	Edward IV PLANTAGENET, king of England,   b. 28 Apr 1442, Rouen, Normandy, France d. 9 Apr 1483, Westminster Palace, Westminster, Middlesex, England (Age 40 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth WOODVILLE,   b. Abt 1437, Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire, England d. 8 Jun 1492, Bermondsey Abbey, Surrey, England (Age ~ 55 years)
  Marriage	1 May 1464	her family home, Grafton Regis, Northamptonshire, England   [4, 5]
  	She was a widow, and not of noble blood, the first commoner to marry an English sovereign.
  Family ID	F1183	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	John WELLES, 1st Viscount Welles   d. 9 Feb 1498
  Marriage	Between 25 Nov 1487 and 31 Dec 1487  [3]
  Children	1. Elizabeth WELLES   2. Anne WELLES
  Family ID	F36810	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	28 Jul 2024

  
  

• Photos

  Stained_glass_in_the_Burrell_CollectionDSCF0301_07 Cecily Plantagenet stained glass formerly in Canterbury Cathedral, now Burrell Collection, museum in Glasgow, Scotland. Courtesy of Wikipedia.

  
  

• Sources

  [S19183] Wikipedia - Lionel Welles, 6th Baron Welles. [S19184] Wikipedia - Edward IV. [S19185] Wikipedia - Cecily of York. [S2283] The Mammoth Book of British Kings & Queens, 2283. (Reliability: 2). Page 617 [S1844] The Plantagenet Encyclopedia, 1844.