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Anne Neville

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by Michael Hicks


  31 TNA DL 29/648/10485.

  32 CPR 1476–85, 67, 254.

  33 Ibid.

  34 TNA DL 29/637/10360A mm.2–2d; R.E. Horrox and A.F. Sutton, ‘Some Expenses of Richard Duke of Gloucester, 1475–7’, Ricardian 83 (1983), 267.

  35 TNA DL 29/637/10360A mm.2–2d; Horrox & Sutton, 267.

  36 York City Chamberlain Account Rolls 1396–1500, ed. R.B. Dobson, Surtees Society xcii (1980), 152. For what follows, see D. Mancini, Usurpation of Richard III, ed. C.A.J. Armstrong (Oxford, 1969), 70–1.

  37 County History of Glamorgan, iii, The Middle Ages, ed. T.B. Pugh (Cardiff, 1971), 201.

  38 Historiae Dunelmensis Scriptores Tres, ed. J. Raine, Surtees Society (1839), ccclviii–ix.

  39 R.B. Dobson, Church and Society in the Late Medieval North of England (1996), 153–5.

  40 CPR 1476–85, 67.

  41 Register of the Guild of Corpus Christi in the City of York, ed. R.H. Skaife, Surtees Society 57 (1871), 101n.

  42 Historia Dunelmensis, ccclvii–viii.

  43 A.F. Sutton and L. Visser-Fuchs, The Hours of Richard III, Richard III and Yorkist History Trust (Gloucester, 1990); J. Hughes, The Religious Life of Richard III (Stroud, 1997).

  44 Searle, Queens’ College, 88–92; C.D. Ross, ‘Some Servants and Lovers of Richard III in his Youth’, Crown and People, 146–8; CPR 1476-85, 34.

  45 CPR 1476–85, 67, 255, 260.

  46 Ibid. 67.

  6 HER KING’S CONSORT 1483-5

  1 Historic Manuscripts Commission, 11th Report III: MSS of the Borough of King’s Lynn (1887), 170.

  2 Stonor Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century, ed. C.L. Kingsford, Camden 3rd ser. xxx, 1919, 162.

  3 CPR 1467–77, 190.

  4 Laynesmith, 52.

  5 The Coronation of Richard III. The Extant Documents, ed. A.F. Sutton and P.W. Hammond (Gloucester, 1983), 1.

  6 Ibid. esp. 27, 78. Unless otherwise stated, the next two paragraphs are based on Coronation, passim.

  7 Rows Rolls, no.63; A. Payne, ‘The Salisbury Roll c.1463’, England in the Fifteenth Century, ed. D. Williams (Woodbridge, 1987), pl.8; The Beauchamp Pageant, ed. A. Sinclair, Richard III and Yorkist History Trust (Stroud, 2003), plate lv.

  8 Hanham, 122.

  9 W. Dugdale, Monasticon Anglicanum (1846), ii.64; Clarence, 128, 142. For the next sentence, see A.F. Sutton, ‘The Death of Queen Anne Neville’, Richard III: Crown and People, ed. J. Petre (Gloucester, 1985), 16–17.

  10 Harl MS 433 ii.7.

  11 Bodleian MS Top.Glouc d.2 f.38.

  12 Clarence, 195–6; Rows Rolls, no.59.

  13 Beauchamp Pageant; Hanham, 122.

  14 Payne, ‘Salisbury Roll’,

  15 Rows Rolls, espec. 62 & pedigree.

  16 Ibid. nos 48, 57, 59.

  17 Rows Rolls, passim; Hanham, 120–3.

  18 Rows Rolls, nos 58, 60, 61.

  19 Ibid. no.56 & note (Latin version); Hanham, 121.

  20 Hanham, 121.

  21 Hicks, Richard III, 144–7.

  22 Ibid. 146–8. For what follows, see A. Compton-Reeves, ‘King Richard III at York in Late Summer 1483’, Ricardian 159 (2002), 542–53.

  23 R.B. Dobson, ‘Richard III and the Church of York’, Kings and Nobles in the Later Middle Ages, ed. R.A. Griffiths and J.W. Sherborne (Gloucester, 1986), 147.

  24 Rows Roll, no.63.

  25 Laynesmith, 4.

  26 Ibid. 5, 51, 54.

  27 Coronation, 364.

  28 Hicks, Rivals, 276.

  29 M.A. Hicks, ‘Richard Lord Latimer, Richard III and the Warwick Inheritance’, Ricardian 154 (2001), 314–19.

  30 Warwick, 42, 297.

  31 Harl MS 433 ii.108.

  32 County History of Glamorgan, iii, The Middle Ages, ed. T.B. Pugh (Cardiff, 1971), 201.

  33 Harl MS 433 i.171, 192; iii.155.

  34 Hicks, Rivals, 347.

  35 Harl MS 433 iii.155.

  36 Ibid. i.171, 192, 263; Laynesmith, 256; CPR 1476–85, 423; TNA C 81/1530/33; History of the Queens’ College of St Margaret and Bernard at the University of Cambridge 1446–1560, ed. W. Searle, Cambridge Antiquarian Society 9 (1867), 95–101.

  37 P.W. Hammond, Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales (Cliftonville, 1973), 29–30.

  38 Coronation, 84.

  39 Ibid. 33–4, 84; R.E. Horrox, Richard III: A Study of Service (Cambridge, 1989), 105n; CPR 1476–85, 417, 496; Laynesmith, 105n.

  40 Laynesmith, 228–9.

  41 Coronation, 84.

  42 CPR 1476–85, 372, 375, 377, 385, 386, 464, 473, 498, 505, 510, 511; Harl MS 433, i. 251.

  7 PAST HER SELL–BY DATE

  1 Crowland, 170–1.

  2 Ibid.

  3 Three Books of Polydore Vergil’s English History, ed. H. Ellis, Camden Soc. xxix (1844), 211.

  4 W. Shakespeare, Richard III, ed. E.A.J. Honigman, New Penguin Shakspeare (1995), Act IV scene 2 l.59.

  5 P. Morgan, ‘“Those were the days”: A Yorkist Pedigree Roll’, Estrangement, Enterprise, and Education in Fifteenth Century England, ed. S. Michalove and A. Compton Reeves (Stroud, 1998), 114–16.

  6 Harl. 433 i.271.

  7 He had several bastards, see above, chapter 6.

  8 Crowland, 174–5.

  9 Ibid. 174.

  10 P.W. Hammond and A.F. Sutton, Richard III: The Road to Bosworth Field (1985), 199; see below note 15.

  11 Vergil, 226.

  12 As demonstrated by H.A. Kelly, ‘Crowland Observations’, Ricardian (1990), correcting the mistranslation of Crowland, 174–5.

  13 Hammond & Sutton, 199.

  14 Ibid.

  15 Great Chronicle of London, ed. A.H. Thomas & I.D. Thornley (1938), 234; Chronicles of London, ed. C.L. Kingsford (Oxford, 1905); Vergil, 211; Hanham, 121.

  16 Crowland, 174–7.

  17 Ibid. 174–7.

  18 Ibid. 176–7.

  19 Ibid. 174–5; H.A. Kelly, ‘Canonical Implications of Richard III’s Plan to Marry his Niece’, Traditio xxiii (1967), 270.

  20 Clarke, 1024-5.

  21 Crowland, 174–5.

  22 G. Buck, History of King Richard III (1619), ed. A.N. Kincaid (Gloucester, 1979), 3–5, 191.

  23 L. Visser-Fuchs, ‘Where did Elizabeth of York turn for consolation?’ Ricardian 122 (1993), 473.

  24 Hanham, 19n.

  25 Buck, Richard III, 191.

  26 Ibid.

  27 Crowland, 174–5.

  28 Hammond & Sutton, 165–6.

  29 Vergil, 210–11.

  30 Hammond & Sutton, 165–6.

  31 Crowland, 174–5.

  32 Ibid. Strangely, Clarke, 1025n., makes no comment here.

  33 Dr John Gunthorpe, one candidate to be Crowland, certainly would have known, since it was he who produced the dispensation that allowed Prince Richard to wed Anne Mowbray in 1477, Illustrations of Ancient State and Chivalry, ed. W.H. Black (Roxburghe Club, 1840), 30.

  34 RP vi.100–1.

  35 Laynesmith, 80.

  36 R.H. Helmholz, ‘The Sons of Edward IV. A Canonical Assessment of the Claim that were Illegitimate’, Richard III: Loyalty, Lordship and Law, ed. P.W. Hammond (Gloucester, 1986), 95.

  37 Crowland, 132–3.

  38 Ibid. 174-7.

  39 Kelly, ‘Canonical Implications’, 269.

  40 Crowland, 174–7.

  41 E.g. Kelly, ‘Canonical Implications’, 286.

  42 Great Chronicle, 234.

  43 Hanham, 53.

  44 Kelly, ‘Canonical Implications’, 269–311, esp. 286, 305, 307.

  45 Crowland, 176–7.

  46 Hicks, Richard III, 181.

  47 Great Chronicle, 234.

  48 Ibid.

  49 Crowland, 176–7.

  50 Rows Rolls, no.63 note (Latin version).

  51 Crowland, 174–5; Vergil, 211.

  52 Vergil, 211.

  53 Hanham, 52.

  54 Vergil, 211.

  55 Crowland, 174–5.

  56 Ibid.

  57 Great Chronicle, 234; Row
s Rolls, no.62 note (Latin version).

  58 Laynesmith, 122.

  59 Crowland, 174–5.

  60 Hicks, Rivals, 332–3.

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  Table of Contents

  Title

  Copyright

  Contents

  Foreword

  Preface

  1 Why Study Anne Neville?

  2 Who Was Anne Neville?

  3 Her Father’s Daughter 1469–71

  4 Between Princes 1471–5

  5 Her Husband’s Wife 1475–83

  6 Her King’s Consort 1483–5

  7 Past Her Sell-By Date

  8 Epilogue

  Abbreviations

  Notes

  Select Bibliography

 

 

 


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