Anne Beauchamp, 16th Countess of Warwick

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Anne Beauchamp
16th Countess of Warwick (suo jure)
Countess of Salisbury
Drawing of Anne from the Rous Roll, c. 1483
BornLady Anne Beauchamp
13 July 1426
Died20 September 1492(1492-09-20) (aged 66)
Noble familyBeauchamp
Spouse(s)Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick
IssueIsabel, Duchess of Clarence
Anne, Queen of England
FatherRichard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick
MotherIsabel Despenser

Anne Beauchamp, 16th Countess of Warwick (13 July 1426 – 20 September 1492) was an important

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Anne Beauchamp was the mother of two famous daughters,

Isabel Neville, the wife of George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, and Anne Neville, Queen of England as the wife of King Richard III.[1]

Inheritance

Anne Beauchamp was born at

Lady Anne in 1449, Neville inherited the title and the considerable estates of the Earldom of Warwick
through his wife.

However, this was contested by Anne's three older half-sisters, children of her father's first marriage to Elizabeth, heir of Berkeley. One of these,

Lady Margaret, Countess of Shrewsbury (d. 1468). Richard Neville succeeded in keeping the Warwick and Despencer estates intact.[3]

Children's marriages

Her elder daughter, Lady

Edward IV of England. Her younger daughter, Lady Anne Neville, was married to Edward of Westminster, the only son of King Henry VI. When Edward of Westminster was killed in the Battle of Tewkesbury, Anne Neville was married to Richard, Duke of Gloucester, later King Richard III of England. Although their mother was still living, the husbands of the two Neville sisters fought over their inheritance. To win his brother George's final consent to the marriage with Anne, eventually Richard renounced most of Warwick's land and property including the earldoms of Warwick (which the Kingmaker had held in his wife's right) and Salisbury and surrendered to Clarence the office of Great Chamberlain of England.[4]

In 1474, to settle the dispute once and for all, Anne was declared legally dead by Parliament and her inheritance divided between her two daughters.[5]

After George was executed for treason in 1478, his son Edward inherited the title of Earl of Warwick, while Richard's son was styled Earl of Salisbury.[6]

Later life

Anne died in obscurity, having survived her husband, her daughters and the sons-in-law who had effectively disinherited her. She was in sanctuary at Beaulieu Abbey in 1486 when she petitioned Henry VII for the return of her estate. She recovered a small portion, but only on condition that she broke the entail and remit the bulk of them to Henry VII.[3] "The 'Warwick and Spencer lands', her own patrimony became part of the crown estate."[7]

Fictional portrayals

Anne, Countess of Warwick, appears prominently in the

The White Queen.[9]
She is depicted as a coldly ambitious mother to Isabel and Anne Neville, and her husband's staunchest supporter.

A more sympathetic portrayal of the Countess of Warwick is in the novel

Jean Plaidy.[citation needed
]

Novelist Sandra Worth represents the Countess as her husband's conscience in her five novels about the Wars of the Roses. Another sympathetic portrayal of Anne Beauchamp is Wife to the Kingmaker, a 1974 title by Sandra Wilson.[10]

Ancestry

References

  1. ISBN 978-0-7524-6887-7
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  2. ISBN 0-631-16259-3
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  3. ^
    doi:10.1111/j.1468-2281.1979.tb02217.x
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  4. ISBN 978-0-393-00785-5
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  5. ISBN 9781445647463
  6. ISBN 978-0-7509-5539-3
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  7. ISBN 978-0049420816
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  8. ^ Dennison, Matthew (17 August 2012). "Review: The Kingmaker's Daughter by Philippa Gregory". Express.co.uk. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  9. ^ Genzlinger, Neil (9 August 2013). "'The White Queen' Has Its Premiere on Starz". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
  10. ^ Holland, Cecelia (27 April 1975). "Timeless core in historical fiction". Los Angeles Times. p. 559. Retrieved 29 March 2018.
Peerage of England
Preceded by Countess of Warwick
1449–1492 		Succeeded by
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