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Hace 2 días · The lordship afterwards belonged to the earls of Warwick and their successors as a member of Kirtling, though from 1361 or earlier they had only a quitrent of 10s. (fn. 130) The rent was appurtenant to Kirtling when given to the Crown in 1488 by Anne, countess of Warwick.
Hace 5 días · However, after just three years of marriage, Anne fell from favor after failing to produce a son, instead giving birth to the future Queen Elizabeth I. Accused of adultery and incest on trumped-up charges, Anne was swiftly tried and executed in May 1536, becoming the first English queen consort to be publicly beheaded. Jane Seymour (c. 1508-1537)
Hace 4 días · Upon the death of Anne‘s brother Henry in 1446, Anne became the suo jure Countess of Warwick. When Richard married her in 1449, he assumed the title of Earl of Warwick in her right, inheriting vast estates and becoming one of the wealthiest and most powerful magnates in England.
Hace 3 días · In 1487 Anne, dowager Countess of Warwick, widow of Richard Neville, had obtained an Act of Parliament for the restoration of her estates. These she conveyed immediately to Henry VII and confirmed the grant by a fine; Warwick and other castles were given away and she retained only the manor of Erdington.
Hace 3 días · On Cecily's death the manor reverted to her sister-in-law Anne de Beauchamp, suo jure countess of Warwick (d. 1492), the wife of Richard Neville, earl of Salisbury (cr. earl of Warwick 1450, d. 1471, 'the kingmaker').
Hace 6 días · Margaret Russell was the youngest child of Francis Russell, 2nd Earl of Bedford and his first wife Margaret St John. She was born on 07 Jul 1560 "in her father's house in Exeter", just 2 years before the premature death of her mother, the Duchess of Bedford, in Aug 1562 during the Smallpox pandemic that ravished England that summer.
Hace 1 día · When Anne was about two, she was joined by a sister, a disappointment to her father and mother, a princess of Navarre, who hoped for a son. As the years passed, their hopes faded. So, after Anne’s mother died in 1486, her father presented Anne to his vassals as his heir. Anne’s gouvernante, Countess Françoise de Dinan-Laval, chosen from ...
