Qualla: Raby Castle https://qualla.com/raby-castle en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:24 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/w/raby-castle-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Raby Castle https://qualla.com/raby-castle Raby Castle: Introduction https://qualla.com/raby-castle/ Photo credit Russell Greig, CC BY-SA 2.0. Cecily Neville gave birth to two kings within these walls. Edward IV and Richard III - both the white-rose victor of the Wars of the Roses and the most argued-over monarch in English history - came into the world at Raby, the family seat of the Nevilles deep in County Durham. The castle her ancestor John Neville built between roughly 1367 and 1390 still stands among 200 acres of deer park, nine towers along its perimeter, its irregular plan refusing the tidy geometries of later fashion. The deer that wander the grounds are descendants of the herd that watched her grow up.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/w/raby-castle-wp/gcww-raby-castle-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Raby Castle: The House of Neville https://qualla.com/raby-castle/ Photo credit Draco2008 from UK, CC BY 2.0. The Nevilles held Raby from the 13th century, summoned to Parliament as Barons of Raby from 1295 even though they carried no formal title at first. John Neville (1299-1335) joined Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster's household, knitting the family into the Lancastrian orbit. By the la...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/w/raby-castle-wp/gcww-raby-castle-the-house-of-neville.mp3 0:06 2 full Raby Castle: Rising in the Name of a Captive Queen https://qualla.com/raby-castle/ Photo credit Draco2008 from UK, CC BY 2.0. In 1569 Charles Neville, 6th Earl of Westmorland, walked into a trap of his own making. The Rising of the North was a Catholic-led plot to free Mary, Queen of Scots from her English captivity and restore the old religion. Charles and Thomas Percy raised their tenants and rode sou...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/w/raby-castle-wp/gcww-raby-castle-rising-in-the-name-of-a-captive-queen.mp3 0:06 3 full Raby Castle: Halls Lined with Masters https://qualla.com/raby-castle/ Photo credit Draco2008 from UK, CC BY 2.0. The Vanes were collectors. Old masters and family portraits accumulated room by room - works by Luca Giordano, Anthony van Dyck, Joshua Reynolds and Peter Lely, capriccios by Marco and Sebastiano Ricci and Antonio Joli, a portrait of Oliver Cromwell by Robert Walker, Alexander Po...

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