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Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk

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Burial
  
Westminster Abbey

House
  
York (by marriage)

Name
  
Anne Mowbray,


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Predecessor
  
John Mowbray, 4th Duke, 7th Earl

Born
  
10 December 1472 Framlingham Castle, Suffolk (
1472-12-10
)

Father
  
John Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk

Mother
  
Elizabeth de Mowbray, Duchess of Norfolk

Died
  
November 19, 1481, Greenwich, United Kingdom

Spouse
  
Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (m. 1478)

Parents
  
Elizabeth Talbot, Duchess of Norfolk, John de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk

Grandparents
  
John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury

Great-grandparents
  
Richard Beauchamp, 13th Earl of Warwick

Similar People
  
Richard of Shrewsbury - Duke of Y, Cecily of York, Edward IV of England, Edward V of England, Elizabeth Woodville

Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk, later Duchess of York and Duchess of Norfolk (10 December 1472 – c. 19 November 1481) was the child bride of Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York, one of the Princes in the Tower. She died at the age of eight.

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Heiress

She was born at Framlingham Castle in Suffolk, the only (surviving) child of John de Mowbray, 4th Duke of Norfolk and Lady Elizabeth Talbot. Her maternal grandparents were John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury and his second wife Lady Margaret Beauchamp. The death of her father in 1476 left Anne a wealthy heiress.

Marriage

On 15 January 1478, aged 5, she was married in St Stephen's Chapel, Westminster, to Richard of Shrewsbury, 1st Duke of York, the 4-year-old younger son of Edward IV and his queen, Elizabeth Woodville.

Death and heirs

Anne died at Greenwich in London, nearly two years before her husband disappeared into the Tower of London with his older brother, Edward V.

Upon her death, her heirs normally would have been her cousins, William, Viscount Berkeley and John, Lord Howard, but by an act of Parliament in January 1483 the rights were given to her husband Richard, with reversion to his descendants, and, failing that, to the descendants of his father Edward IV. This action may be a motivation for Lord Howard's support of the accession of Richard III. He was created Duke of Norfolk and given his half of the Mowbray estates after Richard's coronation.

Burial

Anne was entombed in a lead coffin in the Chapel of St. Erasmus of Formiae in Westminster Abbey. When that chapel was demolished in about 1502 to make way for the Henry VII Lady Chapel, Anne's coffin was moved to a vault under the Abbey of the Minoresses, run by nuns of the Order of Poor Clares Franciscans. Her coffin eventually disappeared.

In December 1964, construction workers in Stepney accidentally dug into the vault and found Anne's coffin. It was opened, and her remains were analyzed by scientists and then entombed in Westminster Abbey in May 1965. Her red hair was still on her skull and her shroud still wrapped around her. Westminster Abbey is the purported resting place of her husband, Richard Duke of York.

References

Anne de Mowbray, 8th Countess of Norfolk Wikipedia