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Hace 4 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 2 días · The Broad Town estate apparently formed part of the portion of Anne, Countess of Warwick, since in 1487 she conveyed it to Henry VII. Thereafter it was leased out by the Crown (see below) until 1536 when it was granted to Edward Seymour, later Duke of Somerset (executed 1552).
Hace 1 día · 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 3 días · On 20th May 1536, King Henry VIII got betrothed to the woman who'd become his third wife, Jane Seymour. It was just a day after his second wife, Anne Boleyn, had been executed.
Hace 5 días · In the 18th century, women took part in Britain’s first public art exhibitions; these artists included overlooked figures such as Katherine Read and Mary Black; the sculptor Anne Seymour Damer; and Margaret Sarah Carpenter, a leading figure in her day but little heard of now.
Hace 2 días · It was not only the earldom that was at stake; Richard Neville had inherited it as a result of his marriage to Anne Beauchamp, 16th Countess of Warwick. The Countess, who was still alive, was technically the owner of the substantial Beauchamp estates, her father having left no male heirs.
Hace 3 días · Anne Seymour was married to the most powerful man at the court of King Edward VI, Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset and as such, ruled supreme, briefly, as the most powerful women in England, but, this precedence was hard won and challenged by another grand dame of the royal Tudor court, the dowager queen Katherine Parr, with whom ...
