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Hace 4 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 2 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 5 días · In 1560 Queen Elizabeth granted the manor for life to Anne Seymour, duchess of Somerset and widow of Protector Somerset, for £13 6s. 8d. a year and payment of the bailiffs and steward's wages. (fn. 51) In 1570 Anne and her second husband, Francis Newdigate, were successfully prosecuted for failing to pay any rent for 10 years.
Hace 5 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. The rent was appurtenant to Kirtling when given to the Crown in 1488 by Anne, countess of Warwick.
Hace 2 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 5 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 3 días · On 14 April 1471, the Countess of Warwick landed in Portsmouth (from Calais) to the news that her husband had been killed in battle. What did she do? Answer: took sanctuary in Beaulieu Abbey
