The death of Edward the Fourth, and the deposition of his son, changed the fortunes of his daughters. Instead of becoming Queen of Scotland, Cecily Plantagenet married John Viscount Welles, an especial favorite and uncle of the half-blood of Henry the Seventh (31), through whose influence he obtained her hand. It has not been discovered when their marriage took place, but it must have been before December, 1487, as at the festival of Christmas in that year, when the Heralds "cried" the guests into court, they addressed her in these words, "Largesse, de noble Preincesse la sœur de le Reyne notre soveraigne dame, et Comtesse de Wellys," and Lord Welles is stated to have given "for him and my lady wife" twenty shillings (32). In the 7th Henry VII., 1491-2, an act of parliament was passed which recited that the Viscount promised on marrying Lady Cecily to settle certain lands on her and the heirs of their bodies, out of the estates to which he was restored in the 1st Henry VII.; but as he was then about to accompany the King in his voyage royal, it was enacted, to avoid expense, that they should hold the lands in question to them and the heirs of his body (33). In the 19th Henry VII., 1502, after the viscount's decease, another settlement was made securing those lands to her for life (34). At the christening of her nephew Prince Arthur, at Winchester, on the 24th of September, 1486, Lady Welles carried him to the font, he being wrapped in a mantle of crimson cloth of gold, furred with ermine, with a train, which was borne by the Marchioness of Dorset (35). When her sister was crowned, she was in immediate attendance on her person, and supported her train during the whole ceremony (36).
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Viscount Welles died on the 9th February, 1498-9, and had issue two daughters, Elizabeth and Anne, who both died young, and their mother married to her second husband, a gentleman of the name of Kyme, of Lincolnshire. At the marriage of Katherine of Aragon to Arthur, Prince of Wales, Lady Welles bore the princess' train (37).
It is not a little remarkable that the precise date of the birth, of the marraige, of the baptismal name of the second husband, and even of the death of Princess Cecily, the sister-in-law of one King and aunt of another, should never have been ascertained. An entry on the 13th May, 1502, of her having lent her sister the Queen 4l. 13s. 4d. on some occasion, is the only notice which is to be found of her in the Privy Purse Expenses of that year. In those of Henry the Seventh, from 1492 to 1505, her name does not occur; and this account of her, imperfect as it is, must be closed with the remark, that she is said to have died at Quarera, in the Isle of Wight (38). from the Richard III site
And then I found this: Cecily married THOMAS OF ISLE OF WIGHT KYME, Bef. January 1503/04 and that would be the reason She was buried at this Abbey on the Isle of Wight.
Are there any sources that indicate this was a love match?
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