Cecily Bodenham

Cecily Bodenham
Portrait alleged to be of Cecily Bodenham
Bornbefore 1511
Rotherwas, Herefordshire, England
Diedafter 1543
TitlePrioress of Kingston St Michael
Abbess of Wilton Abbey
Parent(s)Roger Bodenham
Joane Bromwich

Cecily Bodenham (before 1511-after 1543) was the last abbess of Wilton Abbey. Her tenure as abbess was from 1534 to 25 March 1539, when she surrendered the abbey to the commissioners of King Henry VIII of England during the Dissolution of the Monasteries. She received a generous pension and a property at Fovant, where she retired with about ten of the nuns from Wilton.