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Bridget of York
Born(1480-11-10)10 November 1480
Eltham Palace, London
Died1517 (aged 37)
Dartford Priory, Kent
HouseYork
FatherEdward IV of England
MotherElizabeth Woodville

Bridget of York (10 November 1480 – 1517) was an English princess, the tenth child and seventh daughter of Edward IV of England and Queen Elizabeth Woodville.

She was a younger sister of Elizabeth of York, Mary of York, Cecily of York, Edward V, Margaret of York, Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York, Anne of York, George Plantagenet, 1st Duke of Bedford, and Catherine of York. She was also an aunt of Henry VIII of England.

Princess Bridget Plantagenet, Dedicated to the Nunnery at Dartford by James Northcote (1822)

She was born in Eltham, London on 10 November 1480, and was baptised by Edward Story, Bishop of Chichester on 11 November 1480. Her godmothers at the baptismal fount were her paternal grandmother, Cecily Neville, Duchess of York, and her oldest sister, Elizabeth of York. Her godfather was William Waynflete, Bishop of Winchester. Bridget's aunt Margaret, Lady Maltravers, served as her godmother at her confirmation.[1] Bridget was likely named after St. Bridget of Sweden.[2]

Her parents may have decided at the time of her birth that this daughter would be dedicated to a religious life, and Princess Bridget was entrusted to Dartford Priory, Dartford, Kent sometime between 1486 and 1492. She became a nun.[3]

Bridget maintained correspondence throughout her life with her sister the queen, who also paid for her various minor expenses, as well as minor expenses of the orphaned Agnes of Eltham.[4] After Bridget's sister, Elizabeth of York, married Henry VII, Elizabeth paid some of Bridget's expenses and kept in touch with her via messengers.[5] Bridget is known to have left Dartford on at least one occasion, when she attended the funeral of her mother, Elizabeth Woodville, in 1492.[6] She died about 1517.[7]

Ancestry

Family of Bridget of York
16. Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York
8. Richard of Conisburgh, 3rd Earl of Cambridge
17. Isabella of Castile, Duchess of York
4. Richard Plantagenet, 3rd Duke of York
18. Roger Mortimer, 4th Earl of March
9. Lady Anne de Mortimer
19. Lady Alianore de Holland
2. Edward IV of England
20. John Neville, 3rd Baron Neville de Raby
10. Ralph de Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland
21. Maud Percy
5. Lady Cecily Neville
22. John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster
11. Lady Joan Beaufort
23. Katherine Swynford
1. Bridget of York
24. Richard Wydeville
12. Sir Richard Wydevill
25. Elizabeth Lyons
6. Richard Woodville, 1st Earl Rivers
26. John Bodulgate
13. Elizabeth Bodulgate
27. Joan Beauchamp
3. Elizabeth Woodville
28. Jean I de Luxembourg, Comte de Brienne
14. Peter of Luxembourg, Count of Saint-Pol
29. Marguerite d'Enghien, Comtesse de Brienne
7. Jacquetta of Luxembourg
30. Francesco del Balzo, 1st Duke of Andria
15. Margherita del Balzo
31. Sueva Orsini

References

  1. ^ Routh, "Princess Bridget," in The Ricardian, June 1975, p. 13
  2. ^ Anne F. Sutton and Livia Visser-Fuchs, The Royal Funerals of the House of York at Windsor, Richard III Society, 2005, p. 110.
  3. ^ Mary Anne Everett Green, Lives of the Princesses of England. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longman and Robers, 1857. Vol. 4, p. 46.
  4. ^ Weir, Alison (7 November 2013). Elizabeth of York: The First Tudor Queen. Random House. pp. 489–. ISBN 978-1-4481-9138-3.
  5. ^ Green, p. 47.
  6. ^ Sutton and Visser-Fuchs, p. 73.
  7. ^ Routh, p. 14.
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