Anne Beauchamp, Countess of Warwick
Also known as: countesse of Warwike · Family: House of Lancaster · Role: countess · First appears: Edward IV 17
Life events
- c. 1471 · Margaret of Anjou and her allies landed at Weimouth with Edward of Westminster.(Edward IV 17 · 📍 Weimouth)
- With: Margaret of Anjou Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales John Wenlock, Baron Wenlock
- “they landed at Weimouth, as after shall appeare.”
- c. 1471 · Anne Beauchamp learned of her husband's death and took sanctuary at Beaulieu Abbey.(Edward IV 19 · 📍 Beaulieu)
- “Wherevpon she went no further towards the quéene, but secretlie got hir ouer the water into the new forest, and tooke sanctuarie within the abbeie of Beaulieu.”
Edward IV 17
- allies with Margaret of Anjou “quéene Margaret with hir sonne prince Edward, the countesse of Warwike, the prior of S. Iohns, the lord Wenlocke, and diuerse others their adherents and partakers, with all that they might make, were readie at the sea side, purposing with all spéed to saile ouer into England”
- allies with Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales “quéene Margaret with hir sonne prince Edward, the countesse of Warwike, the prior of S. Iohns, the lord Wenlocke, and diuerse others their adherents and partakers, with all that they might make, were readie at the sea side, purposing with all spéed to saile ouer into England”
- allies with John Wenlock, Baron Wenlock “quéene Margaret with hir sonne prince Edward, the countesse of Warwike, the prior of S. Iohns, the lord Wenlocke, and diuerse others their adherents and partakers, with all that they might make, were readie at the sea side, purposing with all spéed to saile ouer into England”
- enemies with Edward IV “Wherevpon they departed foorth of London, and with all hast possible drew westward, there to raise what forces they could, to ioine with those their fréends, immediatlie after they should once come on land, and so to assist them against king Edward and his partakers.”
Edward IV 19
- married with Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick “The countesse of Warwike, hauing a ship of aduantage, arriued before the other at Portesmouth, and from thence she went to Southampton, meaning to haue gone to Weimouth, where she vnderstood that the quéene was landed: but here had shee knowledge of the losse of Barnet field, and that hir husband was there slaine.”
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Extracted from the original text of Holinshed's Chronicles — the reigns Shakespeare dramatized. Made with Rho MD.